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Complex oxides have competing phases with different spin, electronic and orbital order. Now it has been shown that growing thin films on different facets of a low-symmetry substrate can be used to control the phase of the ground state.

Smashing uranium-238 ions together proves to be a reliable way of imaging their nuclei. High-energy collision experiments reveal nuclear shapes that are strongly elongated and have no symmetry around their longest axis.

In this work, the authors investigate nonlinear Hall materials under optical driving. They find that nonlinear Hall materials can exhibit a strong light-enhanced nonlinear Hall response when excited by circularly polarized lasers.

Quantum chaos is a useful framework for quantum many-body systems, but it has been mostly applied to isolated systems. Here the authors study the interplay of chaos and dissipation in open quantum circuits, showing that chaos is robust against weak dissipation but can also assist and anomalously enhance relaxation.

A large magnetic field induces a metal-insulator transition in graphite, which manifests as a dome in the phase diagram. Ye et al. show that this dome is an example of an electron-hole pair BCS-BEC crossover, tuneable by hydrostatic pressure with a locked summit temperature.

The rapid advances in van der Waals magnets provide a platform for exploring spintronics in the 2D limit. Leveraging the unique properties of 2D magnets with new tuning knobs could see 2D spintronics find its applications in both quantum and classic information processing.

Complex oxides have competing phases with different spin, electronic and orbital order. Now it has been shown that growing thin films on different facets of a low-symmetry substrate can be used to control the phase of the ground state.

Method could probe whether a key tenet of quantum mechanics applies to gravity, which has so far resisted quantum theory.

Physicist Mark Thomson will face several challenges — including bringing in enough money to build a colossal new particle-smashing ‘Higgs factory’.

Smashing uranium-238 ions together proves to be a reliable way of imaging their nuclei. High-energy collision experiments reveal nuclear shapes that are strongly elongated and have no symmetry around their longest axis.