Why Is Ice Slippery? New Study Overturns 200-Year-Old Physics Theory
It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
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The expanding world of topological ferroelectrics
In this issue we present three papers on the topological properties or structure of ferroelectrics, which are interlinked.…
Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers
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Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator
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Distinct terahertz nonlinear and Raman responses in cuprate superconductors Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
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Unconventional scaling of the orbital Hall effect
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Scalable photonic quantum technologies | Nature Materials
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Anisotropic non-Fermi liquid and dynamical Planckian scaling of a quasi-kagome Kondo lattice system
The temperature dependences of the R(ω) and σ1(ω) spectra obtained from the Kramers-Kronig analysis of the R(ω) spectra…
Two-dimensional material-based devices for in-sensor computing
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Flatland wakes based on leaky hyperbolic polaritons
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Observation of non-Hermitian topology from optical loss modulation
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