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Artificial synapses are central to computing architectures that combine memory and processing. Understanding and harnessing their imperfections can improve reliability, efficiency and performance.
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The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics, but also aims to foster a wider dialogue to explore how quantum science and society can benefit each other. With this Series, we highlight how quantum science interacts with society and invite physicists, engineers, educators, historians and other scholars to contribute to this discussion.
A Series that invites physicists, historians, sociologists, psychologists and other scholars to consider the following questions. How does physics work today? How did we end up with this system? How could we imagine physics in the future?
This ongoing collection brings together articles from Nature Reviews journals about how physicists can contribute to environmental sustainability – both by working on questions that have direct relevance to sustainability goals and understanding Earth’s climate, but also by changing the ways physicists work.
This Perspective proposes a pluralistic understanding of ‘information’ that reflects how this notion is used in natural sciences today. It distinguishes engineering, statistical, thermodynamic and ontological faces of information, each with distinctive affordances and restrictions.
Topological pair density waves offer an insight into the interplay among finite-momentum pairing, topological matter and chiral superconductivity. This Perspective explores signatures of these states in kagome superconductors.
van der Waals Josephson junctions offer opportunities to explore novel device functionalities in superconducting circuits. This Review discusses progress in different device architectures and provides a roadmap outlining near-term and long-term opportunities for the field.
The application of artificial intelligence to quantum information science has emerged as a frontier of research. This Technical Review summarizes how AI techniques, including machine learning, deep learning and language models, are establishing a new way to describe complex quantum systems.
Entropy production quantifies non-equilibrium behaviour but is hard to measure in fluctuating, partially observed systems. This Review discusses stochastic thermodynamics approaches that infer model-free lower bounds from coarse-grained observables, including states, currents, correlations and waiting times, across steady and time-dependent regimes, and highlights progress in trajectory-level estimation.
With an increasing number of startups coming out of universities, we examine the differences and similarities between academic and industrial research.
Despite existing standards for quantum-safe encryption and regulatory deadlines, post-quantum migration is slow. The bottleneck is no longer mathematics or physics but collective action, but only the physics community can provide credible, calibrated estimates of when quantum computers will matter.
In 1834, Mary Somerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences argued that astronomy, physics and mathematics belonged together. Saad Bhamla asks why this kind of synthesis tends to disappear into the subjects it organizes.
100 years on from Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger’s dispute on how to conceptualize quantum mechanics, Arthur I. Miller reflects on the subtleties of visualization in physics.
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