Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03041-1
Richard Brierley
{"title":"Boron at the boundaries","authors":"Richard Brierley","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03041-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-03041-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 9","pages":"1356-1356"},"PeriodicalIF":18.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035329","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03022-4
Lintao Li, Xiye Hu, Zhubing Jia, William Huie, Won Kyu Calvin Sun, Aakash, Yuhao Dong, Narisak Hiri-O-Tuppa, Jacob P. Covey
{"title":"Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array","authors":"Lintao Li, Xiye Hu, Zhubing Jia, William Huie, Won Kyu Calvin Sun, Aakash, Yuhao Dong, Narisak Hiri-O-Tuppa, Jacob P. Covey","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03022-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03022-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The integration of quantum computers and sensors into a quantum network enables new capabilities in quantum information science. Most networks with atom-like qubits operate at visible or near-ultraviolet wavelengths and require conversion to the telecom band for long-distance communication, which reduces efficiency and potentially introduces noise. Here we report high-fidelity entanglement between ytterbium-171 atoms and optical photons generated directly in the telecommunication band, where fibre loss is low. The nuclear spin of the atom is entangled with a single photon in the time-bin basis, yielding a high atom-measurement-corrected atom–photon Bell state fidelity. This can be further improved by addressing photon measurement errors. By imaging the atom array onto an optical fibre array, we also implement a parallelized networking protocol that can increase the remote entanglement rate proportionately with the number of channels. We also preserve coherence on a memory qubit during operations on communication qubits. These results support the integration of atomic systems into scalable quantum networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035384","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03018-0
Solmaz Nadiri
{"title":"Precision without parity","authors":"Solmaz Nadiri","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03018-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-03018-0","url":null,"abstract":"Metrology has long been defined by its pursuit of reproducibility, accuracy and traceability. Yet, when it comes to the representation of women and other marginalized communities, precision has not been matched by parity, finds Solmaz Nadiri.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 9","pages":"1498-1498"},"PeriodicalIF":18.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035333","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03052-y
{"title":"Serendipitous signal","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03052-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-03052-y","url":null,"abstract":"The first direct observation of gravitational waves occurred on 14 September 2015. We look back at ten years of gravitational wave science.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 9","pages":"1349-1349"},"PeriodicalIF":18.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03052-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035331","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03055-9
N. J. Lambert, A. Schumer, J. J. Longdell, S. Rotter, H. G. L. Schwefel
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Coherent control of magnon–polaritons using an exceptional point","authors":"N. J. Lambert, A. Schumer, J. J. Longdell, S. Rotter, H. G. L. Schwefel","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03055-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-03055-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 10","pages":"1678-1678"},"PeriodicalIF":18.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03055-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025633","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03025-1
Hsin-Yuan Huang, John Preskill, Mehdi Soleimanifar
{"title":"Certifying almost all quantum states with few single-qubit measurements","authors":"Hsin-Yuan Huang, John Preskill, Mehdi Soleimanifar","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03025-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03025-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Certifying that an <i>n</i>-qubit state synthesized in the laboratory is close to a given target state is a fundamental task in quantum information science. However, existing rigorous protocols applicable to general target states have potentially prohibitive resource requirements in the form of either deep quantum circuits or exponentially many single-qubit measurements. Here we prove that almost all <i>n</i>-qubit target states, including those with exponential circuit complexity, can be certified from only <i>O</i>(<i>n</i><sup>2</sup>) single-qubit measurements. Given access to the target state’s amplitudes, our protocol requires only <i>O</i>(<i>n</i><sup>3</sup>) classical computation. This result is established by a technique that relates certification to the mixing time of a random walk. Our protocol has applications for benchmarking quantum systems, for optimizing quantum circuits to generate a desired target state and for learning and verifying neural networks, tensor networks and various other representations of quantum states using only single-qubit measurements. We show that such verified representations can be used to efficiently predict highly non-local properties of a synthesized state that would otherwise require an exponential number of measurements on the state. We demonstrate these applications in numerical experiments with up to 120 qubits and observe an advantage over existing methods such as cross-entropy benchmarking.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145009271","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03054-w
Hilel Hagai Diamandi, Yizhi Luo, David Mason, Tevfik Bulent Kanmaz, Sayan Ghosh, Margaret Pavlovich, Taekwan Yoon, Ryan Behunin, Shruti Puri, Jack G. E. Harris, Peter T. Rakich
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Optomechanical control of long-lived bulk acoustic phonons in the quantum regime","authors":"Hilel Hagai Diamandi, Yizhi Luo, David Mason, Tevfik Bulent Kanmaz, Sayan Ghosh, Margaret Pavlovich, Taekwan Yoon, Ryan Behunin, Shruti Puri, Jack G. E. Harris, Peter T. Rakich","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03054-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-03054-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 9","pages":"1497-1497"},"PeriodicalIF":18.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03054-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002901","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03023-3
Mengzhu Shi, Di Peng, Kaibao Fan, Zhenfang Xing, Shaohua Yang, Yuzhu Wang, Houpu Li, Rongqi Wu, Mei Du, Binghui Ge, Zhidan Zeng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Jianjun Ying, Tao Wu, Xianhui Chen
{"title":"Pressure induced superconductivity in hybrid Ruddlesden‒Popper La5Ni3O11 single crystals","authors":"Mengzhu Shi, Di Peng, Kaibao Fan, Zhenfang Xing, Shaohua Yang, Yuzhu Wang, Houpu Li, Rongqi Wu, Mei Du, Binghui Ge, Zhidan Zeng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Jianjun Ying, Tao Wu, Xianhui Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03023-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03023-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity under high pressure in Ruddlesden–Popper phase nickelates has captured notable attention in the condensed matter physics community. Here we report superconductivity in a distinct hybrid nickelate, La<sub>5</sub>Ni<sub>3</sub>O<sub>11</sub>, formed by alternating stacks of La<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> and La<sub>2</sub>NiO<sub>4</sub> layers. This nickelate also exhibits a density-wave transition at approximately 170 K near ambient pressure. With increasing pressure, this density-wave transition shifts to higher temperatures and abruptly disappears around 12 GPa, followed by the emergence of superconductivity, indicating a first-order phase transition. But the optimal superconductivity with large superconducting volume fraction is observed at approximately 21 GPa with <span>({T}_{{rm{c}}}^{{;rm{zero}}})</span> = 54 K. High-pressure X-ray diffraction experiments reveal a structural phase transition from an orthorhombic structure to a tetragonal structure at lower pressure. Notably, this structural change has minimal impact on the density-wave or superconducting phases, suggesting a limited role of lattice degrees of freedom in this material. These findings establish La<sub>5</sub>Ni<sub>3</sub>O<sub>11</sub> as a new superconducting member of the Ruddlesden–Popper nickelate family and offer valuable insights into the interplay between structure, electronic order and superconductivity in hybrid nickelates.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995522","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}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03003-7
Subham Biswas, Rahul Grover, Cordula Reuther, Chetan S. Poojari, Reza Shaebani, Shweta Nandakumar, Mona Grünewald, Amir Zablotsky, Jochen S. Hub, Stefan Diez, Karin John, Laura Schaedel
{"title":"Tau accelerates tubulin exchange in the microtubule lattice","authors":"Subham Biswas, Rahul Grover, Cordula Reuther, Chetan S. Poojari, Reza Shaebani, Shweta Nandakumar, Mona Grünewald, Amir Zablotsky, Jochen S. Hub, Stefan Diez, Karin John, Laura Schaedel","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-03003-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-025-03003-7","url":null,"abstract":"Microtubules are cytoskeletal filaments characterized by dynamic instability at their tips and a dynamic lattice that undergoes continuous tubulin loss and incorporation. Tau, a neuronal microtubule-associated protein, is well known for its role in stabilizing microtubule tips and promoting microtubule bundling. Here we demonstrate that tau also modulates microtubule lattice dynamics. Although tau lacks enzymatic activity, it significantly accelerates tubulin exchange within the lattice, particularly at topological defect sites. Our findings indicate that tau enhances lattice anisotropy by stabilizing longitudinal tubulin–tubulin interactions while destabilizing lateral ones, thereby enhancing the mobility and annihilation of lattice defects. These results challenge the traditional view of tau as merely a passive stabilizer, revealing its active role in dynamically remodelling the microtubule lattice structure. Beyond its known role in stabilizing microtubules, it is now shown that tau protein actively promotes lattice defect repair by enhancing tubulin turnover at topological defects.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"21 10","pages":"1616-1628"},"PeriodicalIF":18.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03003-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144983375","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}