Physics Today

Article	Citations
Viscous electron fluids	59
Majorana qubits for topological quantum computing	46
How does the wind generate waves?	33
Does new physics lurk inside living matter?	30
Inducing new material properties with hybrid light–matter states	27
Ptychography: A solution to the phase problem	20
The physics of lipidic mesophase delivery systems	17
Branched flow	17
Liquid metals at room temperature	16
The quantum mechanics of viscosity	16
Science and technology of the Casimir effect	15
Metasurfaces for quantum technologies	15
A deterministic source of single photons	14
Nanotubes from layered transition metal dichalcogenides	14
Intuitive or rational? Students and experts need to be both	13
Computed tomography turns 50	12
Aerodynamic heating in hypersonic flows	12
The physics of river prediction	12
Hydrogen-powered aircraft may be getting a lift	12
The math behind epidemics	11
Machine-learning-assisted modeling	11
Living cells on the move	10
Electric propulsion of spacecraft	10
US government acts to reduce dependence on China for rare-earth magnets	9
A quantum leap in security	9

Neutron scattering for structural biology	9
The secret world in the gaps between brain cells	8
Accelerating progress in climate science	8
Quantum firmware and the quantum computing stack	7
The demons haunting thermodynamics	7
There is no quantum measurement problem	7
Universities overcome bumps in transition to online teaching	7
Particle beams behind physics discoveries	7
Ocean acoustics in the changing Arctic	7
Tying celestial mechanics to Earth’s ice ages	7
A molecular road movie	7
Exploring cultural heritage through acoustic digital reconstructions	7
Medieval weather prediction	6
Dawn of the topological age?	6
Whatever happened to cellulosic ethanol?	6
Illuminating the darkest galaxies	6
Accelerating astrophysics with the SpaceX Starship	6
Magnetic field–boosted superconductivity	6
Why are theorists excited about exotic nuclei?	6
Graphene gets bent	6
Addressing the quantum measurement problem	6
Connecting extreme weather events to climate change	6
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science	6
World’s physics instruments turn their focus to COVID-19	6
A journey to touch the Sun	6
COVID-19 pandemic modeling is fraught with uncertainties	6
Clogging: The self-sabotage of suspensions	5
Magnetic fields for modulating the nervous system	5
The undermining of science is Trump’s legacy	5
The cost of solar energy production has plunged, but it needs to fall further	5
Drops in cells	5
How does light behave in a material whose refractive index vanishes?	5
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change	5
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics	4
Synthetic dimensions	4
An atomic physics perspective on the kilogram’s new definition	4
A field guide to angle-independent structural color	4
Mingling art and science opens minds	4
The US is in dire need of STEM teachers	4
S is for Science: The making of 3-2-1 Contact	4
The warmth of wind power	4
Physics and poetry	4
Canada’s nuclear future brightens	4
Quantum computing ramps up in private sector	4
Electrification of cars and trucks likely won’t disrupt the grid	4
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab	4
Guiding inventions from lab to market	4
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging	3
Cometary chemistry	3
Improving science education: It’s not rocket science—it’s harder!	3

Helium prices surge to record levels as shortage continues	3
Reflections on an academic job search	3
Clean hydrogen edges toward competitiveness	3
Microchip accelerators	3
The surface hydrology of Antarctica’s floating ice	3
Physics … is for girls?	3
Where does outer space begin?	3
A windfall for US carbon capture and storage	3
Unveiling the mystery of solar-coronal heating	3
The complexities of the human placenta	3
Mark Yakovlevich Azbel	3
Accelerator experiments are closing in on neutrino CP violation	3
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols	3
Isaac Newton and the perils of the financial South Sea	3
Overlooked mechanisms behind seismic damage	3
Deep learning opens up protein science’s next frontiers	3
Commentary: Science and colonialism	3
The theory of black hole formation shares the Nobel Prize in Physics	3
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments	3
Ultimate turbulent thermal convection	3
Ernest Rutherford’s ambitions	3
Could hydrogen bail out nuclear power?	3
Finnish–Soviet nuclear icebreakers	3
A single-atom heat engine	3
Relativistic quantum chaos in graphene	3
Further delays at ITER are certain, but their duration isn’t clear	3
Particle physicists hash out long-term strategy for Europe	3
So you want to hire a professor!	3
US particle physicists envision future of the field	3
Iridium marks the spot	3
The speedy secret of shark skin	3
Fruit photonics and the shape of water	2
Between complacency and panic	2
Ballooning satellite populations in low Earth orbit portend changes for science and society	2
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones	2
Computational phonogram archiving	2
Nobel Prize in Physics honors the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the heart of the Milky Way	2
When does a molecule make up its mind?	2
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies	2
Nuclear is carbon-neutral	2
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos	2
Israel has become a powerhouse in quantum technologies	2
Hackathons catch on for creativity, education, and networking	2
Unveiling exozodiacal light	2
When your academic ladder is longer	2
Capture alone isn’t sufficient to bottle up carbon dioxide	2
Enceladus erupts	2
Nobels neglect fluid dynamics	2
Quantum materials out of equilibrium	2
Climate tipping points: A personal view	2
Boiling eggs, radiation damage, and the Arrhenius plot	2
Lead-208 nuclei have thick skins	2
ITER and the prospects for commercial fusion	2
An unconventional superconductor isn’t so odd after all	2
Einsteinian subtleties in Magritte’s Time Transfixed	2
Where do new PhDs work?	2
Thermodynamics of the climate system	2
Nanophotonics for a sustainable future	2
Sarah Frances Whiting and the “photography of the invisible”	2
Replacing high-risk radioactive materials remains a challenge	2
Leaving politics aside	2
24 000 years of climate change, mapped	2
A new undersea volcano is born east of Africa	2
Lessons from 35 years in industry	2
James Jeans and The Mysterious Universe	2
Biological tissues as mechanical metamaterials	2
Building a ship in a bottle for neutrino science	2
Metal cations drive carbon dioxide’s chemical reduction	2
Breaking the glass ceiling of 20th-century astronomy	2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals	2
The clean-energy challenge	2
Better ways to store energy are needed to attain Biden’s carbon-free grid	2
In Ukraine, science will need rebuilding postwar; in Russia, its isolation could endure	2
When learning physics mirrors doing physics	2
Celestial background of 1869 eclipse	2
A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy	2
Even underwater, money talks	2
Is the electric potential physical?	2
Burning branches	2
Chip-scale sensor detects light’s orbital angular momentum	2

More on the quantum measurement problem	2
The road from academia to entrepreneurship	2
Europe’s experiment in funding graphene research is paying off	2
More on the demons of thermodynamics	2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel	2
A new look at the proton sea	2
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors	1
Revisiting science and colonialism	1
New books & media	1
Scientists dismayed by interruption at US’s most productive neutron source	1
College instructors adapt their teaching to prevent cheating	1
Reviews of quantum foundations	1
More on the demons of thermodynamics	1
Icebreakers and Arctic ice melt	1
Beating back the coronavirus requires a bigger arsenal	1
Terraforming Mars	1
DOE medical isotope campaign nears completion	1
Free textbooks and other open educational resources gain popularity	1
The future of meetings	1
Atlantic invertebrates are going the wrong way	1
Glass ages in material time	1
Quasicrystals and the birth of the atomic age	1
Philip Warren Anderson	1
Cold-atom lattice bends topological rules	1
New books & media	1
Asteroids in the inner solar system	1
A family of two-dimensional conductors comes into bloom	1
Solving the century-old mystery of background Love waves	1
Photonic waveguides shed their cladding	1
Join four African students for their MIT journeys	1
Artificial hands make lifelike movements	1
The rich past of astronomical discovery	1
ITER appears unstoppable despite recent setbacks	1
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival	1
High radiation dose rates may improve cancer therapy	1
Capturing the human side of Cold War science	1
Global movement to reform researcher assessment gains traction	1
Evgeny Evgrafovich Meshkov	1
The quest is on to remove petro- from petrochemicals	1
Alarm sounded over declining US radiation professional workforce	1
Commentary: Elitism in physics: What happens when the profession’s cultural scaffolding comes down?	1
Re-creating the physical experience of sound	1
Roddam Narasimha	1
NIF success gives laser fusion energy a shot in the arm	1
Where physics meets biology: More information	1
The structures of protoplanetary disks	1
Another look at the proton sea	1
New books & media	1
The Great Lakes are filled to their brims, with no signs of receding	1
Dipolar supersolids: Solid and superfluid at the same time	1
Ten billion years ago, galaxies were already running out of gas	1
Universities ramp up efforts to improve faculty gender balance and work climate in STEM	1
Transportable atomic clocks achieve laboratory precision	1
Where physics meets biology: More information	1
It’s all too much	1
Quasiparticle poisoning in superconducting quantum computers	1
Benjamin Breneman Snavely	1
Stuck at home, physicists pivot to combat COVID-19	1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment	1
Optical analogues to NMR spectroscopy	1
Engineering better science education	1
Designer proteins act as logic gates	1
Entropy and order work together in an artificial spin ice	1
A novel liquid-crystal phase is ferroelectric	1
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table	1
Cats and llamas could offer a path to coronavirus therapies	1
Muon measurements embolden the search for new physics	1
Opening a new university offers opportunities to try new approaches and reach new populations	1
Despite unknowns, NNSA plunges ahead on plutonium pits	1
STEM volunteers	1
Philip Anderson: Virtuoso of condensed matter	1
Photoelectrons shine a light on dark excitons	1
The squeezes, stretches, and whirls of turbulence	1
The dynamics and changes of the world’s monsoons	1
Contributions to computed tomography	1
Macroscopic mechanical oscillator is herded into a Schrödinger cat state	1
The inner workings of atomic force microscopy	1
DNA assembles nano-objects	1
Contributions to computed tomography	1
Medieval astrometeorology’s legacy	1
James Jeans’s views on the nature of reality	1
Units, for good measure	1
My journey from academia to the US government and beyond	1
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light	1
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive	1
The (soft) propaganda value of lunar exploration	1
The air we breathe in a car	1
Back to the Moon ... to stay?	1
Mushy-layer convection	1
Acoustics of multiuse spaces	1
Tidal turbine development ebbs and flows	1
How to become a successful physicist	1
Subtle historical connections between Magritte and Einstein	1
Stretchy molecules rupture far from the crack	1
Jack Steinberger	1