The observation of quantum modifications to a well-known chemical law could lead to performance improvements for quantum information storage.

An extensive database of over 157 000 spin space groups provides researchers with a searchable tool for exploring the symmetries of a wide variety of magnetic materials.

A systematic study of over 100 000 spin space groups provides a foundational theory for symmetry in magnetic ordered materials that opens new paths for the fundamental comprehension and the exploration of emergent phenomena in such systems.

A comprehensive classification of spin space groups, a hidden symmetry of magnetic materials, paves the way for a more complete understanding of magnetic phases and the design of novel materials.

Magnetic manipulation of electron spin in a diamond tin-vacancy center is more straightforward in strained diamonds, an insight that could be used to advance the field of quantum computing and communication.

A new strategy for measuring bipartite entanglement in a quantum many-body system does so with very few measurements, extending previous studies to systems much larger than what is currently feasible.

A method for computing Feynman diagrams describing quantum many-body interactions offers a promising new solver for quantum impurity models.

A study of generalized global symmetries provides novel, realistic theories of particle physics beyond the standard model, including a natural description of why neutrino masses are so much smaller than those of charged leptons.

New models of social systems as directed hypergraphs reveal how group dynamics play a crucial role in shaping social systems across various domains like politics, epidemiology, and economics.

A field theory for filaments interacting through the action of motor proteins, leading to alignment and sliding, shows the emergence of structures that are nonequilibrium counterparts to those formed by lipids.

Penning traps enable the preparation of clean bilayer crystals of hundreds of ions, thus going beyond 1D and 2D crystals and opening new avenues in trapped-ion quantum information processing.

Joint correlations between small numbers of eigenstates in a many-body quantum system can capture many aspects of quantum dynamics not captured by the current standard framework of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis.

An extension of a magnetic imaging technique with soft X-rays provides access to samples much thicker than previously possible, with potential impacts across a wide variety of fundamental and applied research efforts.

Broadly distributed plant movements serve as “functional noise.” This new insight provides a framework for studying plant navigation based on task oriented processes, optimization, and active sensing.

A new analysis identifies a specific molecular recognition process that allows B cells in the human immune system to produce a potent, specific, and fast response during acute infections.

A combined theory and experimental study of excitons in Van der Waals materials challenges the long-standing dipolar paradigm used to describe exciton interactions and shows the key role of quantum-mechanical contributions.

Adding a third terminal to a hybrid Josephson junction leads to a large energy difference between spin-up and spin-down levels and zero-energy level crossings, suggesting a basis for encoding and processing quantum information.

Innovations that provide new limits on the axion-photon coupling strength open the way to a much more extensive search for the elusive dark matter candidate over the next five years.

A demonstration of the first electrically controlled polariton-based circuit elements offers a way forward on the development of integrated photonics.

A new method of detecting criticality from time-series data outperforms conventional metrics in the presence of variable noise levels for both simulated systems and real neural recordings.

A determination of the structure of corrections to diffusive transport provides a deeper theoretical understanding of diffusion that could assist future experiments, theory, and simulations.

In recent years, many anomalous spherical protein shells have been made or discovered. An analysis of structures in the Protein Data Bank uncovers common principles governing their assembly.

Measurements of Landau level gaps as a function of magnetic field and carrier density provide a new framework for understanding exchange interactions and their density dependence.

A control framework for systems of interacting “qudits”—the multilevel equivalent of a qubit—demonstrates an order-of-magnitude improvement in qudit coherence times over the state of the art.