The prize at the end of the quantum tunnel
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
Quantum light drives electrons strongly at metal needle tips
Bright squeezed vacuum The experimental set-up for the generation of single-mode BSV is described in ref. 32. The…
Observation of the nonlinear chiral thermoelectric Hall effect in tellurium
Zhang, Y. J. et al. Enhanced intrinsic photovoltaic effect in tungsten disulfide nanotubes. Nature 570, 349–353 (2019). Article …
Electron‒phonon‒photon excitation in steady nonlinear lasing
Anantharaman, S. B. et al. Ultrastrong light–matter coupling in two-dimensional metal–organic chalcogenolates. Nat. Photon. 19, 322–328 (2025). Article …
The generalized quantum Stein’s lemma and the second law of quantum resource theories
Nielsen, M. A. & Chuang, I. L. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition (Cambridge Univ. Press,…
Hybrid Frenkel–Wannier excitons facilitate ultrafast energy transfer at a 2D–organic interface
Sample preparation To fabricate the WSe2/PTCDA heterostructure (Extended Data Fig. 1a), hBN was first exfoliated onto a 0.1%…
Magnetic Hofstadter cascade in a twisted semiconductor homobilayer
Hofstadter, D. R. Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields. Phys.…
Entanglement theory with limited computational resources
We now aim to determine the fundamental limits and possibilities of computationally efficient entanglement manipulation. Here the goal…
Individual solid-state nuclear spin qubits with coherence exceeding seconds
Steger, M. et al. Quantum information storage for over 180 s using donor spins in a 28Si semiconductor vacuum.…
Inadequacy of the Casimir force for explaining a strong attractive force in a micrometre-sized narrow-gap re-entrant cavity
Pate, J., Goryachev, M., Chiao, R., Sharping, J. & Tobar, M. Casimir spring and dilution in macroscopic cavity…
Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures
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