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Publisher Correction: Optical control of electrons in a Floquet topological insulator 出版者更正：Floquet拓扑绝缘体中电子的光学控制

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-23 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03497-9

Daniel M. B. Lesko, Tobias Weitz, Simon Wittigschlager, Weizhe Li, Christian Heide, Ofer Neufeld, Peter Hommelhoff

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Integrate physics education research by fixing departmental structures 调整院系结构，整合物理教育研究

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03451-9

Nadji Belkheiri (, ), Alexander M. Gabovich, Volodymyr Kuznetsov

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Weakly interacting spinons and tightly bound triplons in the frustrated quantum spin-Peierls chain 受挫量子自旋佩尔斯链中弱相互作用的自旋子和紧密结合的三子

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-16 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03447-5

Pyeongjae Park, Bo Xiao, Karolina Górnicka, Andrew F. May, Jiaqiang Yan, Ryoichi Kajimoto, Mitsutaka Nakamura, Matthew B. Stone, Gábor B. Halász, Andrew D. Christianson

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Mechanisms of spatial pattern transition in motile bacterial collectives 活动菌群的空间格局转变机制

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-15 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03416-y

Jean-Baptiste Saulnier, Michèle Romanos, Jonathan Schrohe, Clémence Cuzin, Vincent Calvez, Tâm Mignot

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Microrotors make waves 微转子制造波浪

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03452-8

Martin Brandenbourger

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Generation of a high-intensity, superthermal muonium beam for gravity and laser spectroscopy experiments 用于重力和激光光谱学实验的高强度、超热中子束的产生

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03433-x

J. Zhang, A. Antognini, M. Bartkowiak, D. Goeldi, K. Kirch, A. Knecht, D. Taqqu, R. Waddy, F. Wauters, P. Wegmann, A. Soter

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Electrification mechanisms in sliding liquid and frozen drops 滑动液体和冷冻液滴的电气化机制

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03449-3

Rutvik Lathia, Benjamin Leibauer, Aaron D. Ratschow, Werner Steffen, Hans-Jürgen Butt

{"title":"Electrification mechanisms in sliding liquid and frozen drops","authors":"Rutvik Lathia, Benjamin Leibauer, Aaron D. Ratschow, Werner Steffen, Hans-Jürgen Butt","doi":"10.1038/s41567-026-03449-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03449-3","url":null,"abstract":"The microscopic and fundamental origin of slide electrification, which happens when water drops move across insulating surfaces while accumulating and depositing electrical charges, is still debated. Charge transfer is often attributed to ion transfer at the receding contact line. However, it remains an open question whether ion transfer alone can fully account for the observed charge separation. Here we examined slide electrification of polar, self-ionizing liquids and non-polar liquids. By cooling them below the melting temperature, we were able to compare this process to tribocharging of the respective frozen components. Despite reduced ion mobility at sub-freezing temperatures, the frozen polar compounds continued to accumulate substantial charge. Non-polar liquids exhibited lower charging and nearly identical charging behaviour in both their liquid and frozen phases on different substrates. As non-polar liquids contain few free ions, these observations indicate an alternative charging mechanism, which could be electron transfer. Our findings suggest that slide electrification operates through at least two mechanisms, with the dominant charge transfer pathway shifting between ions and electron transfer depending on electronegativity, phase and temperature.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149010557","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}

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An algorithm to generate two-dimensional critical lattice models using competing anyon condensation 一种利用竞争任意子凝聚生成二维临界晶格模型的算法

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03438-6

Kaixin Ji, Yu Zhao, Ce Shen, Yidun Wan, Ling-Yan Hung

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Criticality from competition 竞争的关键性

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03450-w

Luisa Eck

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Digital quantum simulations of scattering in quantum field theories using W states 量子场论中W态散射的数字量子模拟

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Nature Physics Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03436-8

Roland C. Farrell,Nikita A. Zemlevskiy,Marc Illa,John Preskill

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