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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73154-5 Superballistic transport is a known hydrodynamic effect where viscous electrons can move collectively. Here, the authors provide evidence of superballistic electron flow under microwave irradiation in point contacts induced by edge magnetoplasmons.

The order of things Life and the world around us sometimes appears chaotic and random. We may feel this way about traffic, weather, economics, social change, politics, or our personal relationships. Perhaps that is why many yearn for regularity, predictability, order, and stability. Science is a search for patterns and order in the natural world. Condensed matter physics is about how order emerge…

Nature Communications, Published online: 05 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74064-2 The authors interface the quantum Hall edge modes of Cd3As2 films with a thin superconducting NbN strip. They find that the downstream thermoelectric response alternates in sign, revealing the contribution of crossed Andreev reflections.

Scientists have uncovered unexpected quantum complexity inside cobalt, a metal long thought to be fully understood. Advanced measurements revealed a dense network of topological electronic states that remain robust at room temperature. These states enable extremely fast electron behavior and can be switched or controlled using magnetism. The discovery could open new paths toward next-generation c…

Argonne scientists discovered a Higgs mode -- a rare, complex vibration and mathematical analog to the Higgs boson -- that changed the symmetry of a semiconductor crystal. The results could help researchers control material properties using light.

basics Examples In solid state physics, the term “Majorana zero mode” (often abbreviated “MZM” or just “Majorana”) has come to refer to (hypothetical and so far elusive) ground states of certain effectively 1-dimensional quantum materials (quantum/nano-wires) which are acted on by a “Majorana operator” (namely the Hermitian combination of fermion annihilation/creation operators, only vaguely rela…

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01636-x The carrier density of a charge-density-wave condensate can be directly and strongly modulated by electrical gating in orthorhombic tantalum trisulfide nanowires.

If Physical Review B sent your manuscript back as a major revision, here is what the decision means, your 90-day resubmission window, how the divisional associate editor and original referees re-review, and how to write the response to referees that survives a second round.

Nature Communications, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73780-z It is well established that intense laser pulses can demagnetize magnetic matter; however, the inverse process of magnetic moment enhancement by ultrafast laser light is generally precluded. Here, Sharma and coauthors show how combining a spin-orbit-induced spin texture with strong optical drive in CrSBr and CrI…

Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10637-x Chiral perovskite superlattices exhibit room-temperature circularly polarized superfluorescence, with emission intensity and polarization controllable by weak magnetic fields.

Every physicist knows the thrill of unexpected data. Asking “Why is it plateauing there?” launched our recent Communications Materials paper on graphene, a global journey of serendipity and skepticism, revealing that nature is often far more subtle than our initial assumptions.

Nature Physics, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03300-9 Periodic atomic arrays can modify collective light scattering, but most studies have focused on one- and two-dimensional systems. Now experiments with a three-dimensional array show strong omnidirectional suppression of coherent light scattering.

Introducing what came to be called Floreanini-Jackiw theory for the chiral boson: Early discussion of D=5 Chern-Simons theory: On superconducting qubits realized on Josephson junctions and described via Heisenberg groups:

Scientific Reports, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-55785-2 Soliton solutions for the nonlinear Zoomeron equation applying the modified Khater method