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The importance of imagery in quantum mechanics 意象在量子力学中的重要性

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00972-3

Arthur I. Miller

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The importance of imagery in quantum mechanics 意象在量子力学中的重要性

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00972-3

Arthur I. Miller

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Was Schrödinger ever a determinist? Schrödinger曾经是一个决定论者吗？

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-20 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00968-z

Flavio Del Santo, Nicolas Gisin

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Universal bounds on entropy production from fluctuating coarse-grained trajectories 波动粗粒度轨迹熵产生的普遍界

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-20 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00954-5

Udo Seifert

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Universal bounds on entropy production from fluctuating coarse-grained trajectories 波动粗粒度轨迹熵产生的普遍界

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-20 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00954-5

Udo Seifert

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Was Schrödinger ever a determinist? Schrödinger曾经是一个决定论者吗？

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-20 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00968-z

Flavio Del Santo, Nicolas Gisin

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Emergence of Fermi-liquid and BCS physics in overdoped cuprates 过掺杂铜酸盐中费米液体的出现和BCS物理

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-16 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00960-7

B. J. Ramshaw, Steven A. Kivelson

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Universities need transparent quantum hardware 大学需要透明的量子硬件

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00963-4

Alex Krasnok, Arif Sarwat, William Anderson Jr., Andres Gil

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Graphene FET microfluidic platform for electrochemical molecular fingerprinting 石墨烯FET电化学分子指纹微流控平台

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Nature Reviews Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-026-00973-2

Roanne Deanne Aves

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Complexity from minimal state spreading 最小状态传播带来的复杂性