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September issue
This month we learn how to braid and fuse topological anyons, highlight a Perspective on the use of THz optical probes in condensed matter, and consider the potential of PhD students.
Announcements
Insight on 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.
Latest Research articles
A dual-species Rydberg array
Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers are a promising platform for quantum information science. A platform composed of dual-species Rydberg arrays has been realized, offering access to unexplored interaction regimes and crosstalk-free midcircuit control.
- Shraddha Anand
- Conor E. Bradley
- Hannes Bernien
ArticleOpen Access20 Sept 2024 - ArticleOpen Access16 Sept 2024
Energy partitioning in the cell cortex
How cells manage the internal energetic budget to drive mechanical and chemical dynamics is still an open question. Now it is shown that the allocation of energy depends on the distance from thermodynamic equilibrium.
- Sheng Chen
- Daniel S. Seara
- Michael P. Murrell
Article12 Sept 2024 
Emergence of ferromagnetism at the onset of moiré Kondo breakdown
Kondo physics has been observed in moiré bilayers, but the expected magnetic transitions have not been reported. Now, a metal–insulator transition with ferromagnetic order that develops at nearly the same time is reported in a moiré bilayer.
- Wenjin Zhao
- Bowen Shen
- Kin Fai Mak
Article09 Sept 2024
Latest Reviews & Analysis
Non-Abelian chiral dynamics in a lattice under synthetic SU(2) gauge fields
A tunable SU(2) gauge field has been realized experimentally in a Raman momentum lattice using ultracold atoms. The chiral dynamics of the system have been investigated under different gauge potentials, whose non-Abelian nature was confirmed through observation of the non-Abelian Aharonov–Bohm effect.
Ultracold atoms pushed to the edge
Topological insulators exhibit unidirectional flow of robust electric charge at the edge of the system. Two recent experiments have observed these chiral edge modes in exceptionally controllable settings of ultracold atoms.
A general theory of quantum codes connecting quantum computation, complexity and physics
Approximate notions of quantum error-correcting codes hold wide importance across quantum information and physics, but are not cohesively understood. Now, general rigorous connections established between approximate quantum error correction and quantum circuit complexity reveal a ‘complexity phase diagram’ for generalized quantum codes — and create a new unifying lens on complex quantum systems.
Intertwined vestigial orders in stacked magnetic flatlands
Dimensionality tuning can control fluctuations and induce complex phase diagrams with multiple orders and transitions among them. Now, experiments demonstrate intertwined vestigial order in the two- to three-dimensional crossover region in a van der Waals magnet.
