{"title":"Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00759-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00759-4","url":null,"abstract":"This month, we say farewell to our founding Chief Editor, Iulia Georgescu and greet our new Chief Editor, Nina Meinzer. We also thank our first Advisory Board members (2023–2024) and welcome our next Advisory Board.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"525-525"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-024-00759-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"100 years of the Ising model","authors":"Zoe Budrikis","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00760-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00760-x","url":null,"abstract":"In 1924, Ernst Ising thought he showed a simple model for ferromagnetism couldn''t work. 100 years later, that model, now named for him, is used across all of physics.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"530-530"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ising-like model predicts close elections","authors":"Zoe Budrikis","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00753-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00753-w","url":null,"abstract":"A model of voters, based on the Ising model, gives an explanation for why elections are often so close.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"531-531"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology","authors":"Zoe Budrikis","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00757-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00757-6","url":null,"abstract":"A paper in Nature Electronics reports a proof-of-concept Ising machine with all-to-all connectivity.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"533-533"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring interactions in a circadian clock","authors":"Zoe Budrikis","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00755-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00755-8","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Nature Communications uses an Ising-like model to determine the interactions between monomers in a component of the cyanobacterial circadian clock.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"532-532"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergent U(1) lattice gauge theory in Rydberg atom arrays","authors":"Yanting Cheng, Hui Zhai","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00749-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00749-6","url":null,"abstract":"Rydberg atom arrays have emerged as a novel platform exhibiting rich quantum many-body physics and offering promise for universal quantum computation. The Rydberg blockade effect plays an essential role in establishing many-body correlations in this system. Over the past 2 or 3 years, Rydberg arrays have been used to realize exotic ground states such as spin liquids, quantum many-body scar states violating quantum thermalization, and a confinement–deconfinement transition through quantum dynamics. In this Perspective, we use lattice gauge theory as a universal theoretical framework to describe the Rydberg blockade effect and the recent exciting developments in this system from equilibrium phases to quantum dynamics. Analysing Rydberg atom arrays through this theoretical framework can reveal their connection with other strongly correlated systems, such as the Fermi–Hubbard model and the lattice gauge model, which can inspire the discovery of new phenomena in this platform. The Rydberg atomic array is an emerging quantum many-body physics platform, exhibiting rich physical phenomena, such as quantum spin liquids and quantum scar states. This Perspective analyses the latest progress in this system through a unified theoretical framework — lattice gauge theory — providing new insights for quantum simulation.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"566-576"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The co-evolution of computational physics and high-performance computing","authors":"Jack Dongarra, David Keyes","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00750-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00750-z","url":null,"abstract":"High-performance computational physics has been instrumental in advancing scientific research by regularly providing breakthroughs in speed, accuracy and modelling fidelity. This Perspective highlights the contributions of physicists to the development of high-performance computing infrastructure, algorithms and applications from the early days of computing to the exascale era. We recall the pioneering work of Fermi and von Neumann, who set directions and laid foundations for computational science and examine the ongoing impact of physicists in overcoming current challenges in high-performance computing, such as energy consumption and data storage. As we celebrate milestones such as exascale computing and generative artificial intelligence, it is inspiring to recognize the enduring influence of physicists in driving technological innovations and ensuring the future progress of computational science. This Perspective examines the pivotal role physicists have in the development and advancement of high-performance computing from its inception to the exascale era, highlighting key contributions and future challenges.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 10","pages":"621-627"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142204169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The difficult but necessary role of political engagement for scientists","authors":"May Chiao","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00747-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00747-8","url":null,"abstract":"In 2021, physicist and writer, Carlo Rovelli, helped launch an open letter to the world’s politicians calling for a small proportion of military funding to address climate change, poverty and pandemics — the Global Peace Dividend. He discusses the pressing need for global cooperation on common interests.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"528-529"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In fusion, collaboration is both a necessity and an opportunity","authors":"Heather Lewtas","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00746-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00746-9","url":null,"abstract":"With more public and private funding in fusion, the expectations in terms of spillover benefits are increasing, but these can only happen through enhanced cross-sector collaboration.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"526-527"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topological thermal transport","authors":"Zhoufei Liu, Peng Jin, Min Lei, Chengmeng Wang, Fabio Marchesoni, Jian-Hua Jiang, Jiping Huang","doi":"10.1038/s42254-024-00745-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42254-024-00745-w","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal transport is a fundamental mechanism of energy transfer process quite distinct from wave propagation phenomena. It can be manipulated well beyond the possibilities offered by natural materials with a new generation of artificial metamaterials: thermal metamaterials. Topological physics, a focal point in contemporary condensed matter physics, has been intertwined with thermal metamaterials in recent years. Inspired by topological photonics and topological acoustics in wave metamaterials, a new research field emerged recently, which we dub ‘topological thermotics’, which encompasses three primary branches: topological thermal conduction, convection and radiation. For topological thermal conduction, we discuss recent advances in both 1D and higher-dimensional thermal topological phases. For topological thermal convection, we discuss the implementation of thermal exceptional points with their unique properties and non-Hermitian thermal topological states. Finally, we review the most recent demonstration of topological effects in the near-field and far-field radiation. Anticipating future developments, we conclude by discussing potential directions of topological thermotics, including the expansion into other diffusion processes such as particle dynamics and plasma physics, and the integration with machine-learning techniques. This Perspective summarizes the recent progress of topological physics in thermal metamaterials and thus proposes a new research field, ‘topological thermotics’, which is inspired by topological photonics and topological acoustics in wave metamaterials.","PeriodicalId":19024,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Physics","volume":"6 9","pages":"554-565"},"PeriodicalIF":44.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}