Kitaev quantum spin liquids Author(s): Yuji Matsuda, Takasada Shibauchi, and Hae-Young KeeFrustration in spin systems can prevent ordering even at T=0, creating quantum spin liquids that have been sought since Anderson’s pioneer …
Statistical mechanics for networks of real neurons Author(s): Leenoy Meshulam and William BialekOur ability to perceive, think, or act relies on coordinated activity in large networks of neurons in the brain. This review examines recent progress in co …
Prospects for supersymmetry at High-Luminosity LHC Author(s): Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Jessica Bolich, Juhi Dutta, Dakotah Martinez, Shadman Salam, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui ZhangSupersymmetry remains one of the leading candidates for physics …
The ups and downs of internal conversion Author(s): Anjay Manian, Zifei Chen, Hugh T. Sullivan, and Salvy P. RussoThis review examines the theoretical methods used to describe the photophysical process of internal conversion in quantum syste …
Solar fusion III: New data and theory for hydrogen-burning stars Author(s): B. Acharya et al.Approximately 90% of the stars in the Milky Way are on the main sequence, fusing hydrogen into helium through a network of nuclear reactions. This includes the nearest star …
Nobel Lecture: Physics is a point of view Author(s): John J. HopfieldThe 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.[Rev. Mod. Phys. ...
Nobel Lecture: Boltzmann machines Author(s): Geoffrey HintonThe 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.[Rev. Mod. Phys. 9 ...
Photoinduced nonequilibrium states in Mott insulators Author(s): Yuta Murakami, Denis Golež, Martin Eckstein, and Philipp WernerThe interplay between nonequilibrium physics and strong electronic correlations offers a unique platform for manipulating mate ...
Spin-dependent exotic interactions Author(s): Lei Cong, Wei Ji, Pavel Fadeev, Filip Ficek, Min Jiang, Victor V. Flambaum, Haosen Guan, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, and Dmitry BudkerThis review presen ...
Universality in driven open quantum matter Author(s): Lukas M. Sieberer, Michael Buchhold, Jamir Marino, and Sebastian DiehlDriven open many-body quantum systems give rise to nonequilibrium stationary states through the interplay of unitary Ha ...
Quantum physics of stars Author(s): M. Wiescher, C. A. Bertulani, C. R. Brune, R. J. deBoer, A. Diaz-Torres, L. R. Gasques, K. Langanke, P. Navrátil, W. Nazarewicz, J. Okołowicz, D. R. Phillips, M. Płoszajczak, S. Quaglioni, ...
Gas bubble dynamics Author(s): Dominique Legendre and Roberto ZenitThe motion of gas bubbles in liquids plays a vital role in numerous natural, industrial, and everyday phenomena. Unlike solid particles, gas bubbles are ...
Colloquium: Synthetic quantum matter in nonstandard geometries Author(s): Tobias Grass, Dario Bercioux, Utso Bhattacharya, Maciej Lewenstein, Hai Son Nguyen, and Christof WeitenbergThis Colloquium presents ways to implement fractal lattices, curved spaces, and hi ...
Self-aligning polar active matter Author(s): Paul Baconnier, Olivier Dauchot, Vincent Démery, Gustavo Düring, Silke Henkes, Cristián Huepe, and Amir SheeWhat if active units could align–or even antialign–their orientation with their o ...
The need for optoacoustic microscopy Author(s): Ludwig Englert, Dominik Jüstel, and Vasilis NtziachristosAdvanced imaging methods are essential for providing biological and clinical insight into cells and biological tissues. Optoacoustic ...
Wrinkles, creases, and cusps in growing soft matter Author(s): Martine Ben AmarThe buckling of a material surface subject to compression or growth is a ubiquitous phenomenon, arising in materials science contexts such as the swelling of gels as well as ...
Macroscopic stochastic thermodynamics Author(s): Gianmaria Falasco and Massimiliano EspositoThis review bridges the mesoscopic world of stochastic thermodynamics, defined by Markov jump processes, with the deterministic and extensive ther ...
Using gravitational waves to see the first second of the Universe Author(s): Rishav Roshan and Graham WhiteGravitational waves open a unique window on the earliest times in cosmology because the dense primordial plasma, impenetrable to light or neutrinos, is transpa ...
Wannier-function software ecosystem for materials simulations Author(s): Antimo Marrazzo, Sophie Beck, Elena R. Margine, Nicola Marzari, Arash A. Mostofi, Junfeng Qiao, Ivo Souza, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Jonathan R. Yates, and Giovanni PizziThe description of the ele ...
Semidefinite programming relaxations for quantum correlations Author(s): Armin Tavakoli, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Peter Brown, and Mateus AraújoSometimes a mathematical tool emerges as uniquely useful and even a defining feature within some branch of physics s ...
New developments in the numerical conformal bootstrap Author(s): Slava Rychkov and Ning SuOver the past 15 years, the numerical conformal bootstrap has become an indispensable tool for studying strongly coupled conformal field theories in various dimensi ...
Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries Author(s): C. Patrick Royall, Patrick Charbonneau, Marjolein Dijkstra, John Russo, Frank Smallenburg, Thomas Speck, and Chantal ValerianiThe simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. ...
$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics Author(s): Carl M. Bender and Daniel W. HookIt is generally assumed that a Hamiltonian for a physically acceptable quantum system (one that has a positive-definite spectrum and obeys the requirement o ...
The science and technology of liquid argon detectors Author(s): W. M. Bonivento and F. TerranovaLiquid argon detectors are ubiquitous in particle, astroparticle, and applied physics. They reached an unprecedented level of maturity thanks to more than 20 ...
Colloquium: Gene expression in growing cells: A biophysical primer Author(s): Ido Golding and Ariel AmirGene expression, that is, the way in which genes encoded in the genome determine a cell’s growth and biological function, is crucially influenced by growth-related ...
Nobel Lecture: Genesis and applications of attosecond pulse trains Author(s): Pierre AgostiniThe 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award. ...
Nobel Lecture: Sub-atomic motions Author(s): Ferenc KrauszThe 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.[R ...
Nobel Lecture: The route to attosecond pulses Author(s): Anne L’HuillierThe 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award. ...
Colloquium: Eigenvector continuation and projection-based emulators Author(s): Thomas Duguet, Andreas Ekström, Richard J. Furnstahl, Sebastian König, and Dean LeeThe numerical treatment of quantum systems often requires large amounts of computing power and time. As a ...
Ultimate Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence Author(s): Detlef Lohse and Olga ShishkinaRayleigh-Bénard convection is the flow in a closed box heated from below and cooled from above. The ultimate regime of Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence occurs when ...
Colloquium: Quantum batteries Author(s): Francesco Campaioli, Stefano Gherardini, James Q. Quach, Marco Polini, and Gian Marcello AndolinaStorage of energy in quantum devices is of practical relevance for applications in quantum t ...
Catalysis in quantum information theory Author(s): Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, Henrik Wilming, and Nelly H. Y. NgA branch of quantum information is concerned with transformations that are possible given certain resources: for example, quantum te ...
Fluorescence microscopy: A statistics-optics perspective Author(s): Mohamadreza Fazel, Kristin S. Grussmayer, Boris Ferdman, Aleksandra Radenovic, Yoav Shechtman, Jörg Enderlein, and Steve PresséFor centuries, human fascination with the living world motivat ...
Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures Author(s): Morten Amundsen, Jacob Linder, Jason W. A. Robinson, Igor Žutić, and Niladri BanerjeeIn many solids, the spin-orbit interaction is only a small effect. However, in certain materials it lead ...
When superconductivity crosses over: From BCS to BEC Author(s): Qijin Chen, Zhiqiang Wang, Rufus Boyack, Shuolong Yang, and K. LevinThe theory of unconventional superconductors continues to provide profound puzzles. The crossover between the weakly coup ...
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor! Author(s): Randall D. Kamien and Daniel Ucko[Rev. Mod. Phys. 96, 020001] Published Tue May 21, 2024
The standard model effective field theory at work Author(s): Gino Isidori, Felix Wilsch, and Daniel WylerThe standard model is successful at describing most of the data at the electroweak scale, but there are indications that new physics should exist …
Spontaneous scalarization Author(s): Daniela D. Doneva, Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu, Hector O. Silva, Thomas P. Sotiriou, and Stoytcho S. YazadjievRecent observations of compact astrophysical objects have opened the possibility to pr …
Time-resolved ARPES studies of quantum materials Author(s): Fabio Boschini, Marta Zonno, and Andrea DamascelliTime-resolved angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides access to light-induced changes in the electronic band structure and inter …
Comprehensive theory of the Lamb shift in light muonic atoms Author(s): K. Pachucki, V. Lensky, F. Hagelstein, S. S. Li Muli, S. Bacca, and R. PohlThis article reviews recent literature and presents new calculations of the Lamb shift in light muonic atoms. Poin …
Colloquium: Fracton matter Author(s): Andrey Gromov and Leo RadzihovskyFractons are exotic excitations originally conceived as platforms for reliable quantum memories. They are characterized by highly restricted mobilities. In …
Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas Author(s): Derek B. Schaeffer, Archie F. A. Bott, Marco Borghesi, Kirk A. Flippo, William Fox, Julien Fuchs, Chikang Li, Fredrick H. Séguin, Hye-Sook Park, Petros Tzeferacos, and Louise WillingaleProb …
Colloquium: Gravitational form factors of the proton Author(s): V. D. Burkert, L. Elouadrhiri, F. X. Girod, C. Lorcé, P. Schweitzer, and P. E. ShanahanThe gravitational form factors encode fundamental particle properties including mass, spin, and D-term …
Colloquium: Miniature insect flight Author(s): Mao SunThe flight of the bumblebee has long been a source of fascination, in part because the lift requirements cannot be explained by conventional steady fluid dynamics, and unsteady aerod …
Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet Author(s): Koji Azuma, Sophia E. Economou, David Elkouss, Paul Hilaire, Liang Jiang, Hoi-Kwong Lo, and Ilan TzitrinQuantum technology is now at a point where practical work can begin on creating the q …
Quantum error mitigation Author(s): Zhenyu Cai, Ryan Babbush, Simon C. Benjamin, Suguru Endo, William J. Huggins, Ying Li, Jarrod R. McClean, and Thomas E. O’BrienIn most of physics it is normal to obtain information by analy …
Light in correlated disordered media Author(s): Kevin Vynck, Romain Pierrat, Rémi Carminati, Luis S. Froufe-Pérez, Frank Scheffold, Riccardo Sapienza, Silvia Vignolini, and Juan José SáenzThe study of optics in correlated disordered medi …
Atmospheric nanoparticle growth Author(s): Dominik Stolzenburg, Runlong Cai, Sara M. Blichner, Jenni Kontkanen, Putian Zhou, Risto Makkonen, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Markku Kulmala, Ilona Riipinen, and Juha KangasluomaAtmospheric nanopa …
Atom counting with accelerator mass spectrometry Author(s): Walter Kutschera, A. J. Timothy Jull, Michael Paul, and Anton WallnerAccelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a mass-spectrometric method using entire accelerator systems to measure ultralow …
The physics of fast radio bursts Author(s): Bing ZhangFast radio bursts, milliseconds-duration radio bursts predominantly originating from cosmological distances, figure among the unsolved puzzles of contemporary astrophysics. The ra …
Quantitative theory of magnetic interactions in solids Author(s): Attila Szilva, Yaroslav Kvashnin, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Lars Nordström, Olle Eriksson, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, and Mikhail I. KatsnelsonMagnetic moments in solids become useful and interes …
Weak gravity conjecture Author(s): Daniel Harlow, Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, and Tom RudeliusThe weak gravity conjecture, at the simplest level stating that “gravity is the weakest force,” has motivated many recent work …
Long-range interacting quantum systems Author(s): Nicolò Defenu, Tobias Donner, Tommaso Macrì, Guido Pagano, Stefano Ruffo, and Andrea TrombettoniMany-body quantum physics with long-range interactions of variable range and strength can be …
Nobel Lecture: Multiple equilibria Author(s): Giorgio ParisiThe 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award. …
Computational advantage of quantum random sampling Author(s): Dominik Hangleiter and Jens EisertQuantum computers have improved and recent experiments have claimed quantum advantage – completion of a computational task that is evidently hard for any c …
Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals Author(s): Michael P. Zaletel, Mikhail Lukin, Christopher Monroe, Chetan Nayak, Frank Wilczek, and Norman Y. YaoThe spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry has led to the discovery of a new …
Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science Author(s): Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Maciej Lisicki, Vivek N. Prakash, and Endre J. L. MossigeThis review describes recent scientific advances in the context of the culinary arts. It is written as a …
Semiconductor spin qubits Author(s): Guido Burkard, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Andrew Pan, John M. Nichol, and Jason R. PettaSpin qubits, employing the fundamental quantum property of intrinsic angular momentum of individual electrons …
Colloquium: Positronium physics and biomedical applications Author(s): Steven D. Bass, Sebastiano Mariazzi, Pawel Moskal, and Ewa StępieńPositronium, a bound system consisting of an electron and a positron, provides a platform for studying a wide variety of ph …
Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures Author(s): Javier Junquera, Yousra Nahas, Sergei Prokhorenko, Laurent Bellaiche, Jorge Íñiguez, Darrell G. Schlom, Long-Qing Chen, Sayeef Salahuddin, David A. Muller, Lane W. Martin, and R. RameshTopo …
Nobel Lecture: Physical modeling of Earth’s climate Author(s): Syukuro ManabeThe 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award. …
Colloquium: Advances in automation of quantum dot devices control Author(s): Justyna P. Zwolak and Jacob M. TaylorA promising platform for quantum computing consists of arrays of quantum dots. However, operating these devices presents a challenging control problem, …
Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect Author(s): Cui-Zu Chang, Chao-Xing Liu, and Allan H. MacDonaldThe quantum Hall effect, discovered by von Klitzing more than 40 years ago, requires strong magnetic fields for its realization. More rece …
Kochen-Specker contextuality Author(s): Costantino Budroni, Adán Cabello, Otfried Gühne, Matthias Kleinmann, and Jan-Åke LarssonA realization that came gradually in physics is that the “elements of reality” of Einstein, Podolsky, …
Colloquium: Cavity-enhanced quantum network nodes Author(s): Andreas ReisererQuantum computing has seen much progress recently, but networks of quantum processors still face substantial challenges. At the same time they have extraordinary promise for …