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 …
Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems Author(s): Adrian Bachtold, Joel Moser, and M. I. DykmanRecent technological advances allow nanomechanical vibrational systems to be fabricated with small dimensions, large oscillation frequencies, an …
Colloquium: Planckian dissipation in metals Author(s): Sean A. Hartnoll and Andrew P. MackenzieRelaxational processes for conduction electrons in metals come with characteristic temperature dependences; classic examples at low temperatures are …
Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and beyond: Window into non-Fermi liquids Author(s): Debanjan Chowdhury, Antoine Georges, Olivier Parcollet, and Subir SachdevThe Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a solvable model of a many-body quantum system that has stimulated interest in …
Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics Author(s): Amber Boehnlein, Markus Diefenthaler, Nobuo Sato, Malachi Schram, Veronique Ziegler, Cristiano Fanelli, Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Tanja Horn, Michelle P. Kuchera, Dean Lee, Witold Nazarewicz, P …
Interplay between optical vortices and condensed matter Author(s): Guillermo F. Quinteiro Rosen, Pablo I. Tamborenea, and Tilmann KuhnThe interaction between light and matter is a subject of ongoing fundamental interest at the intersection of optics and co …
Optical diagnostics of laser-produced plasmas Author(s): S. S. Harilal, M. C. Phillips, D. H. Froula, K. K. Anoop, R. C. Issac, and F. N. BegLaser-produced plasmas (LPP) are important for fundamental research, industrial, and medical applications …
Colloquium: Multiscale modeling of brain network organization Author(s): Charley Presigny and Fabrizio De Vico FallaniThe brain is a formidably complex system made of neurons and neuronal ensembles that segregate and integrate information across organized layers …
Micius quantum experiments in space Author(s): Chao-Yang Lu, Yuan Cao, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei PanThe Micius satellite, launched from China in August 2016, is the first and only satellite dedicated entirely to quantum experiments. …
Security in quantum cryptography Author(s): Christopher Portmann and Renato RennerSecure communications is a vital need of the world, and the basic features of quantum mechanics seemingly offer fundamental new tools for achieving thi …
Nobel Lecture: A forty-year journey Author(s): Reinhard GenzelThe 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.[Rev ...
Bunch shaping in electron linear accelerators Author(s): G. Ha, K.-J. Kim, J. G. Power, Y. Sun (孙银娥), and P. PiotElectron beams from modern high performance accelerators power intense light sources such as free electron lasers and synchrotron lig …
Spoof surface plasmon photonics Author(s): Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, Luis Martin-Moreno, Hao Chi Zhang, Wenxuan Tang, Ruwen Peng, and Tie Jun CuiStructuring metallic surfaces allows for the support o …
Interfacial thermal resistance: Past, present, and future Author(s): Jie Chen, Xiangfan Xu, Jun Zhou, and Baowen LiAs devices and circuits scale to ever smaller sizes and thermal management in them becomes more important, heat transport across their interfac …
Parameter estimation with gravitational waves Author(s): Nelson Christensen and Renate MeyerFollowing their first detection, gravitational wave signals from astrophysical binary mergers have been collected by the LIGO-Virgo network of interferome …
Power functional theory for many-body dynamics Author(s): Matthias SchmidtIn equilibrium, the unifying framework of density-functional theory provides a variational scheme to determine both the thermodynamics and correlation functions of classical …
Complex paths around the sign problem Author(s): Andrei Alexandru, Gökçe Başar, Paulo F. Bedaque, and Neill C. WarringtonA promising path to solving QCD is on a computer by discretizing spacetime, rewriting the QCD Lagrangian to fit in th …
The proton charge radius Author(s): H. Gao and M. VanderhaeghenThe proton is responsible for about half the mass in our personal lives. So it is perhaps surprising that little is known about how it got here or how it is bound …
The climate system and the second law of thermodynamics Author(s): Martin S. Singh and Morgan E O’NeillWhile the first law of thermodynamics is a well-established principle underlying all models of Earth’s climate system, applications of the second law in …
Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system Author(s): Robert Colman and Brian J. SodenWater vapor is the most important greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere, absorbing more solar terrestrial radiation than any other atmospheric constituent. Be …
Colloquium: Quantum heat transport in condensed matter systems Author(s): Jukka P. Pekola and Bayan KarimiAs nanotechnology has led to smaller devices and thermal detectors have become more sensitive, the problem of heat transport in the quantum regime has become …
Irreversible entropy production: From classical to quantum Author(s): Gabriel T. Landi and Mauro PaternostroEntropy is a fundamental concept in thermodynamics and statistical physics. It governs processes in physics, chemistry, and biology, and its statistica …
Dark matter annihilation to neutrinos Author(s): Carlos A. Argüelles, Alejandro Diaz, Ali Kheirandish, Andrés Olivares-Del-Campo, Ibrahim Safa, and Aaron C. VincentAstrophysical and cosmological evidence suggests that 85% of the mass in t …
Wall interactions of spin-polarized atoms Author(s): Zhen WuExperiments with polarized atoms in glass cells show that spin polarization and quantum coherence can survive many collisions of the atoms with the walls, depending on the nature of …
Large-momentum effective theory Author(s): Xiangdong Ji, Yizhuang Liu, Yu-Sheng Liu, Jian-Hui Zhang, and Yong ZhaoIt is an art to match partons defined in the infinite-momentum frame to QCD lattice simulations. Large-momentum effect …
Baryogenesis from the weak scale to the grand unification scale Author(s): Dietrich Bödeker and Wilfried BuchmüllerThe standard model of elementary particle physics, once augmented with Sakharov’s conditions, offers several scenarios to explain today’s matter-anti …
The entropy of Hawking radiation Author(s): Ahmed Almheiri, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian, and Amirhossein TajdiniThis article describes recent progress on the black hole information problem that involves a new un …
Dynamics of resonant x-ray and Auger scattering Author(s): Faris Gel’mukhanov, Michael Odelius, Sergey P. Polyutov, Alexander Föhlisch, and Victor KimbergWith high brightness and tunable resolution, x-ray synchrotron light sources have enhanced the …
Near-field radiative heat transfer in many-body systems Author(s): S.-A. Biehs, R. Messina, P. S. Venkataram, A. W. Rodriguez, J. C. Cuevas, and P. Ben-AbdallahNear-field radiative heat transfer refers to the transport of thermal energy by electromagnetic …
Equilibrium mechanisms of self-limiting assembly Author(s): Michael F. Hagan and Gregory M. GrasonSelf-assembly is a process in which multiple building blocks spontaneously organize into collective and coherent ordered structures. This process is ub …