Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02861-5
Sheng Qu, Vishal K. Sharma, Jaco J. Geuchies, Maksim Grechko, Mischa Bonn, Falko Pientka, Heejae Kim
{"title":"Mode-resolved, non-local electron–phonon coupling in two-dimensional spectroscopy","authors":"Sheng Qu, Vishal K. Sharma, Jaco J. Geuchies, Maksim Grechko, Mischa Bonn, Falko Pientka, Heejae Kim","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02861-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02861-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Electron–phonon coupling is fundamental to condensed-matter physics, governing various physical phenomena and properties in both conventional and quantum materials. Here we propose and demonstrate two-dimensional electron–phonon coupling spectroscopy that can directly extract the electron–phonon coupling matrix elements for specific phonon modes and different electron energies. Using this technique, we measure the electron energy dependence of the electron–phonon coupling strength for individual phonon modes. It allows us to identify distinct signatures distinguishing non-local Su–Schrieffer–Heeger-type couplings from local Holstein-type couplings. Applying this methodology to a methylammonium lead iodide perovskite, we reveal particularly different properties, for example, temperature dependence or anisotropy, of the electron–phonon couplings of two pronounced phonon modes. Our approach provides insights into the microscopic origin of the electron–phonon coupling and has potential applications in phonon-mediated ultrafast control material properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797746","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 : 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02799-8
Franklin J. Vivanco, Alexander Schuckert, Songtao Huang, Grant L. Schumacher, Gabriel G. T. Assumpção, Yunpeng Ji, Jianyi Chen, Michael Knap, Nir Navon
{"title":"The strongly driven Fermi polaron","authors":"Franklin J. Vivanco, Alexander Schuckert, Songtao Huang, Grant L. Schumacher, Gabriel G. T. Assumpção, Yunpeng Ji, Jianyi Chen, Michael Knap, Nir Navon","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02799-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02799-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quasiparticles are emergent excitations of matter that underlie much of our understanding of quantum many-body systems. Therefore, the prospect of controlling their properties has both fundamental and practical implications. However, in solid-state materials, it is often challenging to understand how quasiparticles are modified by external fields due to their complex interplay with other collective excitations. Here we demonstrate the manipulation of Fermi polarons—quasiparticles formed by impurities interacting with a Fermi gas—in a homogeneous atomic gas using fast radio-frequency control. Exploiting two internal states of the impurity species, we develop a steady-state spectroscopy, from which we extract the energy of the driven polaron. By varying the drive Rabi frequency, we measure the decay rate and the quasiparticle residue of the polaron in the weak-drive limit. At large Rabi frequencies, we observe signs that the drive causes a hybridization of the driven polaron with an incoherent background, leading to the breakdown of a description in terms of textbook quasiparticles. Our experiment establishes the driven Fermi polaron as a promising platform for studying controllable quasiparticles in strongly driven quantum matter and calls for a controlled theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of this strongly interacting quantum system.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143789755","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 : 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02840-w
Akanksha Jain
{"title":"Marangoni flows underlie symmetry breaking in early mouse gastruloids","authors":"Akanksha Jain","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02840-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02840-w","url":null,"abstract":"Spherical aggregates of mouse stem cells exhibit symmetry breaking by forming an elongated axis. This extension is driven by a recirculating Marangoni-like tissue flow, providing insights into the tissue mechanics underlying embryonic development.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143789696","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 : 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02874-0
Gal Orenstein, Viktor Krapivin, Yijing Huang, Zhuquan Zhang, Gilberto de la Peña Muñoz, Ryan A. Duncan, Quynh Nguyen, Jade Stanton, Samuel Teitelbaum, Hasan Yavas, Takahiro Sato, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Patrick Kramer, Jiahao Zhang, Andrea Cavalleri, Riccardo Comin, Mark P. M. Dean, Ankit S. Disa, Michael Först, Steven L. Johnson, Matteo Mitrano, Andrew M. Rappe, David Reis, Diling Zhu, Keith A. Nelson, Mariano Trigo
{"title":"Observation of polarization density waves in SrTiO3","authors":"Gal Orenstein, Viktor Krapivin, Yijing Huang, Zhuquan Zhang, Gilberto de la Peña Muñoz, Ryan A. Duncan, Quynh Nguyen, Jade Stanton, Samuel Teitelbaum, Hasan Yavas, Takahiro Sato, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Patrick Kramer, Jiahao Zhang, Andrea Cavalleri, Riccardo Comin, Mark P. M. Dean, Ankit S. Disa, Michael Först, Steven L. Johnson, Matteo Mitrano, Andrew M. Rappe, David Reis, Diling Zhu, Keith A. Nelson, Mariano Trigo","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02874-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02874-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The nature of the incipient ferroelectric transition in SrTiO<sub>3</sub> has been a long-standing puzzle in condensed matter physics. One explanation involves the competition between ferroelectricity and an instability characterized by the mesoscopic modulation of the polarization. These polarization density waves, which should intensify near the quantum critical point, break local inversion symmetry and are difficult to characterize with conventional X-ray scattering methods. Here we probe inversion symmetry breaking at finite momenta and visualize the instability of the polarization at the nanometre scale in SrTiO<sub>3</sub> by combining a femtosecond X-ray free-electron laser with terahertz coherent control methods. We found polar-acoustic collective modes that are soft, particularly at the tens of nanometre scale. These precursor collective excitations provide evidence for the conjectured mesoscopic-modulated phase in SrTiO<sub>3</sub>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143789752","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 : 2025-04-04DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02865-1
Anthony Raykh, Joseph D. Paulsen, Alex McGlasson, Chaitanya Joshi, Timothy J. Atherton, Hima Nagamanasa Kandula, David A. Hoagland, Thomas P. Russell
{"title":"Shape-recovering liquids","authors":"Anthony Raykh, Joseph D. Paulsen, Alex McGlasson, Chaitanya Joshi, Timothy J. Atherton, Hima Nagamanasa Kandula, David A. Hoagland, Thomas P. Russell","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02865-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02865-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Binding particles to an interface between immiscible liquids to reduce interfacial tension underpins the emulsification and phase behaviour of composite liquid systems. Nevertheless, we found that the strong binding and two-dimensional assembly of ferromagnetic particles at a liquid–liquid interface not only suppresses emulsification but also increases interfacial tension. Consequently, the particle-stabilized interface in a cylindrical vessel rapidly and reproducibly adopts the shape of a Grecian urn after vigorous agitation. The suppression of emulsification, the rapid formation of a stable, non-planar equilibrium interface shape and the increase in interfacial tension all originate from attractive in-plane dipolar magnetic interactions between the particles.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143775657","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":"Hybrid entanglement and bit-flip error correction in a scalable quantum network node","authors":"Xiu-Ying Chang, Pan-Yu Hou, Wen-Gang Zhang, Xiang-Qian Meng, Ye-Fei Yu, Ya-Nan Lu, Yan-Qing Liu, Bin-Xiang Qi, Dong-Ling Deng, Lu-Ming Duan","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02831-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02831-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent efforts have succeeded in producing quantum networks in which quantum information can be stored, transferred and processed across multiple nodes on a metropolitan scale. A key remaining challenge is to enhance the capabilities of individual nodes, providing precise and robust control over multiple qubits. Here we demonstrate coherent control in a hybrid quantum node based on a diamond colour centre. We entangle three types of qubit: an electron spin as an interface qubit, a nuclear spin with long memory time and a flying photonic qubit. These qubits’ frequencies span three distinct regimes, from the optical to the radio-frequency domain. By incorporating two additional nuclear spins, we encode three memory qubits into a logical state using a repetition code and entangle this logical qubit with a photonic qubit. We repeatedly read out the error syndromes of memory qubits using the electron interface qubit, then apply real-time feedback operations to correct bit-flip errors. We perform our protocol for up to 12 rounds and demonstrate an improvement in the logical–photonic joint state population compared with its uncorrected counterpart. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of several key functionalities required for quantum repeaters to operate in full-fledged quantum networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143766903","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 : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02812-0
Hana K. Warner, Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Beatriz Yankelevich, David Barton, Stefano Poletto, C. J. Xin, Neil Sinclair, Di Zhu, Eyob Sete, Brandon Langley, Emma Batson, Marco Colangelo, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Graham Joe, Karl K. Berggren, Liang Jiang, Matthew J. Reagor, Marko Lončar
{"title":"Coherent control of a superconducting qubit using light","authors":"Hana K. Warner, Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Beatriz Yankelevich, David Barton, Stefano Poletto, C. J. Xin, Neil Sinclair, Di Zhu, Eyob Sete, Brandon Langley, Emma Batson, Marco Colangelo, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Graham Joe, Karl K. Berggren, Liang Jiang, Matthew J. Reagor, Marko Lončar","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02812-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02812-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum communications technologies require a network of quantum processors connected with low-loss and low-noise communication channels capable of distributing entangled states. Superconducting microwave qubits operating in cryogenic environments have emerged as promising candidates for quantum processor nodes. However, scaling these systems is challenging because they require bulky microwave components with high thermal loads that can quickly overwhelm the cooling power of a dilution refrigerator. Telecommunication frequency optical signals, however, can be fabricated in significantly smaller form factors to avoid challenges caused by high signal loss, noise sensitivity and thermal loads due to their high carrier frequency and propagation in silica optical fibres. Transduction of information by means of coherent links between optical and microwave frequencies is therefore critical to leverage the advantages of optics for superconducting microwave qubits, while also enabling superconducting processors to be linked with low-loss optical interconnects. Here, we demonstrate coherent optical control of a superconducting qubit. We achieve this by developing a microwave–optical quantum transducer that operates with up to 1.18% conversion efficiency with low added microwave noise, and we demonstrate optically driven Rabi oscillations in a superconducting qubit.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758124","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 : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02845-5
Mohsen Moazzami Gudarzi, Seyed Hamed Aboutalebi
{"title":"Re-examining magnetic tuning of Casimir forces","authors":"Mohsen Moazzami Gudarzi, Seyed Hamed Aboutalebi","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02845-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02845-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><span>arising from</span> Y. Zhang et al. <i>Nature Physics</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02521-0 (2024)</p><p>Casimir–Lifshitz forces have attracted much attention due to their relevance in controlling various phenomena<sup>1,2</sup> and as a manifestation of quantum fluctuations<sup>3</sup>. Lifshitz and colleagues proposed a theory connecting the response function of materials to an electromagnetic field with the magnitude of these forces<sup>4</sup>. According to this theory, precise control over the permittivities of interacting materials allows both the magnitude and the sign of Casimir forces to be tuned, a phenomenon that has been experimentally demonstrated<sup>5,6</sup>. In principle, a similar tuning can be achieved by manipulating the permeabilities (<i>μ</i>) of the interacting materials at optical frequencies. However, this task becomes challenging when the contrast in permeability diminishes at much lower frequencies (approximately in the terahertz range)<sup>7</sup>. Zhang et al. reported the ability to tune Casimir forces using a magnetic field<sup>8</sup>. They demonstrated that the measured force between a gold sphere and a silica (SiO<sub>2</sub>) plate interacting through aqueous suspensions containing magnetite (Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>) nanoparticles underwent a reversal—shifting from attraction to repulsion at a specific separation distance—when a magnetic field was applied. However, we argue that both their theoretical framework and experimental data fail to substantiate this claim.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744692","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":"Reply to: Re-examining magnetic tuning of Casimir forces","authors":"Yichi Zhang, Hui Zhang, Xiuxia Wang, Yiheng Wang, Tianyi Ruan, Yuchen Liu, Shu Li, Tianyi Zhang, Chuang Fan, Changgan Zeng","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02846-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02846-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><span>replying to</span> M. Moazzami Gudarzi and S. H. Aboutalebi <i>Nature Physics</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02845-5 (2025)</p><p>In their Matters Arising, Moazzami Gudarzi and Aboutalebi<sup>1</sup> first highlight the inaccurate dielectric functions of water and Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> used in our Lifshitz theory calculations<sup>1</sup>. Upon careful re-examination, we discovered that our representation of <span>(varepsilon_{{{{rm{Fe}}_{3}}}{{rm{O}}}_{4}}(ixi))</span> (where <span>(varepsilon_{{{{rm{Fe}}_{3}}}{{rm{O}}}_{4}})</span> is the dielectric permittivity of Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>, <i>i</i> is the imaginary unit and <i>ξ</i> is the Matsubara frequency) was based on a mistyped equation (equation (9)) from ref. <sup>2</sup>:</p><span>$${I}_{3}left(xi,right)=frac{C{varOmega }_{2}^{2}}{{xi }^{,2}}left[1+frac{{varOmega }_{2}}{xi }arctan frac{{varOmega }_{2}}{xi }-frac{uppi }{2}right],$$</span><p>where <i>I</i><sub>3</sub> is a part of Kramers–Kronig relation, <i>C</i> = 1.58 and Ω<sub>2</sub> = 1.8 × 10<sup>6</sup> rad/s. The correct equation should read:</p><span>$${I}_{3}left(xi,right)=frac{C{varOmega }_{2}^{2}}{{xi }^{2}}left[1+frac{{varOmega }_{2}}{xi }arctan frac{{varOmega }_{2}}{xi }-frac{{{{uppi }}varOmega }_{2}}{2xi }right].$$</span>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744690","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 : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02853-5
Chun-Wei Chen, Kabish Wisal, Mathias Fink, A. Douglas Stone, Hui Cao
{"title":"Output control of dissipative nonlinear multimode amplifiers using spacetime symmetry mapping","authors":"Chun-Wei Chen, Kabish Wisal, Mathias Fink, A. Douglas Stone, Hui Cao","doi":"10.1038/s41567-025-02853-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02853-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In many linear and nonlinear systems, time-reversal symmetry makes it possible to control the output waves by appropriately shaping the input waves. However, time-reversal symmetry is broken in systems with energy dissipation, necessitating a different approach for relating the input and output fields. We theoretically consider a saturated multimode fibre amplifier in which light generates a heat flow and suffers thermo-optical nonlinearity, thus breaking time-reversal symmetry. We identify a spacetime symmetry that maps the target output back to an input field. This spacetime symmetry mapping applies phase conjugation, gain and absorption substitution but not time reversal, and it holds in a steady state and for slowly varying inputs. Our approach enables coherent wavefront control of nonlinear dissipative systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744693","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}