Alternating red and blue lines represent the alternating chirality of magnons as the voltage applied to an altermagnet is varied.

May issue

This month we celebrate 150 since the Metre Convention, report spectroscopy and entropic probes of fractional quantum Hall states, and recoil from snakes that are not on a plane.

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  • Artistic schematic of two atoms forming a molecule.

    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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  • Solid-state quantum devices can suffer from decoherence caused by fluctuating electron spins in the surrounding material. Operating in a regime where the electron spins become magnetically ordered produces substantially longer coherence times.

    • Masaya Hiraishi
    • Zachary H. Roberts
    • Jevon J. Longdell
    Article
  • The connection between classical neural networks and Gaussian processes is a fundamental result in machine learning. It has now been shown that many quantum neural networks converge to Gaussian processes, enabling their use for regression tasks.

    • Diego García-Martín
    • Martín Larocca
    • M. Cerezo
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Optical excitation is a way to control phase transitions in materials, but it lacks spatial specificity. Now, valley-selective photodoping in a Peierls insulator is demonstrated as a method to optically engineer phase textures with minimal heating.

    • Hannes Böckmann
    • Jan Gerrit Horstmann
    • Claus Ropers
    ArticleOpen Access
  • The nonlinear mechanical properties of soft biological tissues and composites are poorly understood. Their strain stiffening under compression and shear is now found to be universal, and follows from the physics of the underlying biopolymer matrix.

    • Jake Song
    • Elad Deiss-Yehiely
    • Gareth H. McKinley
    Article
  • Moiré patterns and flat bands usually occur in multilayer materials with a small interlayer twist angle, but this can cause detrimental lattice reconstruction. Now, flat bands are shown in a bilayer with large twist angle and structural rigidity.

    • Yanxing Li
    • Chuqiao Shi
    • Chih-Kang Shih
    Article
  • Measurements play a crucial role in our daily lives; and we rely on metrology to ensure that measurements are accurate and comparable. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the global measurement system, we look into its future.

    • Wynand Louw
    • Gert Rietveld
    Comment
  • This month, we celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention and look to the future of metrology.

    Editorial
  • Many young metrologists have fascinating ideas that could shape the future of metrology. Chingis Kuanbayev and Kangyoung Sung tell us how the young professionals imagine what the field will look like beyond 2050.

    • Chingis Kuanbayev
    • Kangyoung Sung
    Measure for Measure
  • Heliophysics focuses on understanding the different processes in the solar system and the influence of the Sun on space and planets. Collaboration between subfields of heliophysics and different communities needs to improve to advance the field.

    • Yuri Y. Shprits
    World View
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