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Cold and Ultracold Molecules
This Insight issue celebrates and reviews recent progress in the generation and study of cold and ultracold molecules and ions for applications in quantum simulation, metrology and chemistry.
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Physics Education Research
Using evidence-based approaches to improve the teaching of physics can help students achieve more and improve equity.
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Interdisciplinarity in biological physics
Research in biological physics often requires collaboration across different fields.
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The renormalization group
A Focus issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kenneth Wilson's work on the renormalization group.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.
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15 years of topological matter
15 years ago, topological insulators were discovered, marking the start of a new branch of condensed matter physics.
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Science at Extreme Pressures
Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
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Complex optics
Disorder and mode interactions are often treated as sources of noise, but can shape the flow of light in interesting and useful ways.
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The Higgs boson discovery turns ten
The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced ten years ago on the 4th of July 2012 — an event that substantially advanced our understanding of the origin of elementary particles’ masses.
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Ultracold quantum technologies
The impressive achievements made with quantum gases rely on continuous improvements in the underlying methods.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
