Communications Physics
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Communications Physics is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the physical sciences.
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Our featured article, November 2025: Anderson transition symmetries at the band-edge of a correlated Sn/Si monolayer
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Anderson transition symmetries at the band-edge of a correlated Sn/Si monolayer
Communications Physics - Multifractality occurs in the local density of states (LDOS) in disordered electronic systems near a metal-insulator transition, and despite an abundance of theoretical...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Our featured article, November 2025: Anderson transition symmetries at the band-edge of a correlated Sn/Si monolayer
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Our featured article, November 2025: High-dimensional quantum key distribution with Qubit-like states
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High-dimensional quantum key distribution with Qubit-like states
Communications Physics - High dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD) systems will allow for higher key generation rate, but with added complexity for creating and detecting high dimensional...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Our featured article, November 2025: High-dimensional quantum key distribution with Qubit-like states
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Our featured article, November 2025: Reconfigurable and active time-reversal metasurface turns walls into sound routers
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Reconfigurable and active time-reversal metasurface turns walls into sound routers
Communications Physics - Controlling how sound travels in noisy or echo-filled spaces is a long-standing challenge. The authors show that walls covered with programmable acoustic elements can...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Our featured article, November 2025: Reconfigurable and active time-reversal metasurface turns walls into sound routers
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In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (QST) 2025, this collection highlights the voices of leading women shaping the field — from academia to industry — as they share their passion, challenges, and vision for the future of QST.
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Women in Quantum
In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (QST) 2025, this collection intends to promote awareness of these challenges and showcase ...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (QST) 2025, this collection highlights the voices of leading women shaping the field — from academia to industry — as they share their passion, challenges, and vision for the future of QST.
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Women in Quantum: an interview with Ilana Wisby
As founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she helped shape Europe’s quantum landscape, championed love-based leadership, and is now building a new venture in stealth.
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As founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she helped shape Europe’s quantum landscape, championed love-based leadership, and is now building a new venture in stealth.
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Women in Quantum: an interview with Ilana Wisby
Communications Physics - Dr. Ilana Wisby is a deep tech entrepreneur and advisor, known for her pioneering leadership in quantum computing and emotionally intelligent organisations. As founding CEO...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Women in Quantum: an interview with Ilana Wisby
As founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she helped shape Europe’s quantum landscape, championed love-based leadership, and is now building a new venture in stealth.
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As founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she helped shape Europe’s quantum landscape, championed love-based leadership, and is now building a new venture in stealth.
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Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. It is time for a real change that calls for a different kind of force and for the participation of everyone.
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Women for quantum—manifesto of values
Communications Physics - Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by several detriments, especially for higher positions. This Manifesto outlines the values and goals of...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. It is time for a real change that calls for a different kind of force and for the participation of everyone.
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Reviewer of the month: Breanna Binder is an Associate Professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is interested in characterizing high-mass X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies, using them as tracers of star formation and endpoints of massive stellar evolution.
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Reviewer of the month: Breanna Binder is an Associate Professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is interested in characterizing high-mass X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies, using them as tracers of star formation and endpoints of massive stellar evolution.
Welcoming Sophie Roman and Brato Chakrabarti to our Editorial Board. They bring expertise in flow microdynamics, geochemistry, biophysics, and soft and active matter.
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Welcoming Sophie Roman and Brato Chakrabarti to our Editorial Board. They bring expertise in flow microdynamics, geochemistry, biophysics, and soft and active matter.
Our featured article, September 2025: Predicting fracture in disordered network materials using the local intelligent stress threshold indicator.
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Predicting fracture in disordered network materials using the local intelligent stress threshold indicator
Communications Physics - Network glass fracture is a sudden, complex process lacking clear precursors. Here, the authors develop the local intelligent stress threshold indicator (LISTI), a neural...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Our featured article, September 2025: Predicting fracture in disordered network materials using the local intelligent stress threshold indicator.
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Our featured article, September 2025: Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning.
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Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning
Communications Physics - In this work the authors employ neural network wavefunctions to discover correlated electron phases in moiré superlattices. Their approach identifies multiple emergent...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Our featured article, September 2025: Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning.
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Our featured article, September 2025: Highly efficient broadband THz mixing and upconversion with Dirac materials.
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Highly efficient broadband THz mixing and upconversion with Dirac materials
Communications Physics - Technologies operating in the terahertz (THz) range are essential for advancing high-speed communication, sensing and imaging. Here, the authors demonstrate that a...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Our featured article, September 2025: Highly efficient broadband THz mixing and upconversion with Dirac materials.
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Our featured article, September 2025: Hybridization of lattice and charge order excitations in a superconducting cuprate.
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Hybridization of lattice and charge order excitations in a superconducting cuprate
Communications Physics - This work reports on high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering experiments revealing a striking renormalization of the phonon spectra of high-Tc cuprates associated with...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Our featured article, September 2025: Hybridization of lattice and charge order excitations in a superconducting cuprate.
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Dominik Juraschek is our Outstanding Reviewer for October 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science.
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Dominik Juraschek is our Outstanding Reviewer for October 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Nature Portfolio recognises the achievements of the Laureates in this collection.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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October 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Nature Portfolio recognises the achievements of the Laureates in this collection.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Nature Portfolio presents a collection that celebrates the contributions by the awardees and the technological advances they have enabled. www.nature.com/collections/...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Nature Portfolio presents a collection that celebrates the contributions by the awardees and the technological advances they have enabled. www.nature.com/collections/...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
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October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, and data-driven models that converge on measurable, designable odd responses in soft systems.
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Odd Soft Matter: Simulations, experiments and applications of Machine Learning
This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, ...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, and data-driven models that converge on measurable, designable odd responses in soft systems.
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This Focus Collection in Communications Physics aims to bring together research from diverse aspects of physical biology, focusing on the interplay of physical laws, bacterial behaviour and physiology.
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Bacterial physiology and self-organization through the lens of physics
This Collection aims to bring together research from diverse aspects of physical biology, focusing on the interplay of physical laws and bacterial behaviour ...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This Focus Collection in Communications Physics aims to bring together research from diverse aspects of physical biology, focusing on the interplay of physical laws, bacterial behaviour and physiology.
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This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the advances in Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials.
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Designing Order: Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials
This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the advances in Crystal ...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the advances in Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials.
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Women in Quantum: an interview with Marilù Chiofalo — on leadership, inclusion, and the future of quantum technologies.
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Women in Quantum: an interview with Marilù Chiofalo
Communications Physics - Marilù Chiofalo obtained her PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and she is a condensed matter professor at the University of Pisa. Her research is in quantum...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Women in Quantum: an interview with Marilù Chiofalo — on leadership, inclusion, and the future of quantum technologies.
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Women in Quantum: an interview with Gloria Platero — on mentorship, inclusive research ecosystems, semiconductor quantum dots, and the future of quantum technologies.
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Women in Quantum: an interview with Gloria Platero
Communications Physics - Gloria Platero is a physicist working on Condensed Matter Theory. She is Research Professor at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and works in the field of semiconductor...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Women in Quantum: an interview with Gloria Platero — on mentorship, inclusive research ecosystems, semiconductor quantum dots, and the future of quantum technologies.
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Interpreting molecular ratchets, directionality, and kinetic asymmetry through the work of Curie, Einstein, and Lewis : A Perspective
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Interpreting molecular ratchets, directionality, and kinetic asymmetry through the work of Curie, Einstein, and Lewis
Communications Physics - Scalar energy can drive formation of non-equilibrium steady-states or power directional processes such as chemotaxis, ion transport across a membrane, or walking along a...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Interpreting molecular ratchets, directionality, and kinetic asymmetry through the work of Curie, Einstein, and Lewis : A Perspective
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Our featured article, August 2025: Active adaptolates featuring motility-induced percolating structures with an adaptive packing geometry
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Active adaptolates featuring motility-induced percolating structures with an adaptive packing geometry
Communications Physics - Periodic potentials have traditionally been used to control phase transitions in equilibrium colloidal suspensions, but their application to active colloids remains less...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our featured article, August 2025: Active adaptolates featuring motility-induced percolating structures with an adaptive packing geometry
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Our featured article, August 2025: Long-lived optical coherence and spin lifetimes in Eu³⁺:Y₂O₃ oxide ceramics for quantum memories
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Long-lived optical coherence and spin lifetimes in Eu3+:Y2O3 oxide ceramics for quantum memories
Communications Physics - Rare earth ions (REI) in solids are promising for quantum technologies. Here, the authors demonstrate a record optical coherence lifetime and the absence of...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Our featured article, August 2025: Long-lived optical coherence and spin lifetimes in Eu³⁺:Y₂O₃ oxide ceramics for quantum memories
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