Nature Reviews Physics

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00979-w 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.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00962-5 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.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 04 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00976-z This month, we reflect on the role of intuition — both physical and mathematical — in furthering our understanding of physics.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00975-0 Linus Chang explains how a paper that used statistical physics to explain how intestinal stem cells divide inspired his own work in biophysics.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00969-y 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.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 22 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00972-3 100 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.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00954-5 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, ac…

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00968-z Erwin Schrödinger is often portrayed as a reactionary who resisted the indeterminism introduced by quantum mechanics, but on closer inspection his views on determinism prove to be more complex and more radical.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 16 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00960-7 Various observed behaviours of overdoped cuprates are inconsistent with a weak-coupling, Fermi-liquid-based Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer description. This Perspective argues that these behaviours are consequences of substitutional disorder in a d-wave superconductor with a short-correlation length, and that a weak…

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00973-2 Roanne Aves describes a platform to integrate graphene-FET based microfluidic modules into one experimental workflow.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00963-4 Students need to experience quantum hardware beyond cloud access to learn how an ideal circuit becomes a physical measurement. Universities should therefore procure teachable systems, not showroom machines.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 14 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00967-0 Rathindra Nath Das recounts how a simple framework to assess complexity published in 2022 shaped his own approach to physics.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00957-2 Artificial synapses based on non-volatile memory exhibit non-ideal effects that can limit the performance of neuromorphic systems. This Review discusses their origins, mitigation strategies and opportunities to exploit these non-idealities for new computing functionalities.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 07 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00966-1 Ubiquitous in popular culture, black holes were once highly debated and remain an intellectually active research area with applications in volcano monitoring and bone growth.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 02 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00952-7 Terahertz scanning tunnelling microscopy integrates picosecond pulses with atomic resolution, enabling detailed analysis of electron dynamics and molecular motions. This Technical Review outlines methods and applications, emphasizing insights into ultrafast phenomena and potential advances in quantum materials …

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00964-3 Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 25 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00955-4 This Technical Review compares data-driven approaches for discovering dynamical models in biology, focusing on regression-based methods, network-based architectures and decomposition techniques. It describes how these approaches extract dynamical information from time-resolved data and evaluates their strengths…

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00950-9 Radioactive molecules containing octupole-deformed nuclei offer a promising platform for measuring fundamental symmetry violations and searching for new physics. This Perspective discusses how advances in their production, trapping and molecular quantum control are enabling precision tests of fundamental physic…

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00965-2 Dhaneesh Kumar describes a method to enable the surface imaging of complex molecules.

Nature Reviews Physics, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42254-026-00949-2 Because gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have made most of the visible spectrum available to LEDs, they have become the backbone of modern lighting applications. This Review examines three effects governing the physics of GaN-based LEDs: polarization fields, carrier localization and non-radiative de…