Nature Physics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Physics is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Biased teaching evaluations328
A tiny escape300
Search for rule-breaking electrons275
Stronger pairs with resonant excitation256
Efficient learning of many-body systems250
Comic-ally chaotic colleagues245
Observing the effect of nuclear motion on attosecond charge migration220
How Iranian students can master integration into German academia216
A picture of a swinging atom207
Efficient optimization of deep neural quantum states198
A general theory of quantum codes connecting quantum computation, complexity and physics195
Spinning into new regimes185
From actin to action176
Metrology for a sustainable future171
Simple cell motility on adhesive gradients170
Quasiparticles, flat bands and the melting of hydrodynamic matter165
Efficient implementation of arbitrary two-qubit gates using unified control163
Ion and electron acoustic bursts during anti-parallel magnetic reconnection driven by lasers160
Enhancing the efficiency of light-induced phase transitions through transient local distortions159
Publisher Correction: Observation of Josephson harmonics in tunnel junctions157
Student interactions with generative AI156
Boundary modes of a charge density wave state in a topological material156
Observation of Joule–Thomson photon-gas expansion149
Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable resonant electro-optic frequency combs142
Addendum: Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays140
Critical fermions are universal embezzlers136
The paper trail of nuclear strategy133
Twin experiments reveal twin electron dynamics132
Super- and subradiant dynamics of quantum emitters mediated by atomic matter waves131
Superconducting stripes induced by ferromagnetic proximity in an oxide heterostructure131
Learning quantum Hamiltonians from high-temperature Gibbs states and real-time evolutions130
Demonstration of momentum cooling to enhance the potential of cancer treatment with proton therapy129
Two-dimensional long-range uniaxial order in three-dimensional active fluids127
Noise-induced shallow circuits and the absence of barren plateaus125
Motorized paperclip learns functional reflexes119
Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons117
Phase transition in magic with random quantum circuits117
Simple input–output dependencies explain neuronal activity116
Stable singular fractional skyrmion spin texture from the quantum Kelvin–Helmholtz instability115
Quantum disordered ground state in the triangular-lattice magnet NaRuO2111
Evidence of non-collinear spin texture in magnetic moiré superlattices108
Realization of a multi-turn energy recovery accelerator108
Entanglement theory with limited computational resources106
Discrete nonlinear topological photonics106
Low-temperature Leidenfrost-like jumping of sessile droplets on microstructured surfaces106
Fast universal control of an oscillator with weak dispersive coupling to a qubit105
Quantum-enhanced sensing by echoing spin-nematic squeezing in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate103
Purification-based quantum error mitigation of pair-correlated electron simulations99
Experimental quantum computational chemistry with optimized unitary coupled cluster ansatz99
Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics98
One spin at a time96
A local probe for many-body physics96
Qubits measured in a different light94
Electronic melt94
Climate record gets hot update92
Biological and soft matter matter92
Sheep lead the way92
Universal dynamics exposed by interaction quenches92
Supersolid-like sound modes in a driven quantum gas91
The formation of a nuclear-spin dark state in silicon91
Mechanical waves help zebrafish regrow their tails91
Storage-ring laser spectroscopy of accelerator-produced hydrogen-like 208Bi82+91
A multilayer superconductor acts as an interdependent network86
From atomically resolved imaging to generative and causal models86
The air temperature conundrum86
Mass difference measurements help to determine the neutrino mass86
Enhanced generation of magnonic frequency combs86
Anyonic interference and braiding phase in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer85
Flavour-selective localization in interacting lattice fermions85
Flexoelectricity-driven toroidal polar topology in liquid-matter helielectrics84
Probabilistic error cancellation with sparse Pauli–Lindblad models on noisy quantum processors82
Observation of electroweak production of two jets and a Z-boson pair82
Decoherence and revival in attosecond charge migration driven by non-adiabatic dynamics81
Measurement-induced quantum phases realized in a trapped-ion quantum computer80
Geometric description of clustering in directed networks79
Dynamic phase transition in 1T-TaS2 via a thermal quench79
Clarification of braiding statistics in Fabry–Perot interferometry79
Fat chance of escaping obesogens78
Tunable quantum simulation of spin models with a two-dimensional ion crystal77
Coherent control of chaotic optical microcavity with reflectionless scattering modes76
Observation of topological action potentials in engineered tissues76
Quantum critical metals and loss of quasiparticles76
Length-scale dependence of the anomalous atomic motion in metallic glasses75
Enzymes as viscoelastic catalytic machines74
Quantized topological pumping in Floquet synthetic dimensions with a driven dissipative photonic molecule74
Room-temperature flexible manipulation of the quantum-metric structure in a topological chiral antiferromagnet73
Quantum spherical codes73
Terahertz excitation of collective dynamics of polar skyrmions over a broad temperature range72
Programmable Heisenberg interactions between Floquet qubits71
Realization of the Haldane Chern insulator in a moiré lattice70
Dissipative time crystal in a strongly interacting Rydberg gas70
Slightly out of tune69
Islands identified69
In the multiverse of ideas69
Always relevant69
Harmony beyond differences69
Travel through the shock68
Anions get cold68
A route to greener Big Science68
Mechanical asymmetry in nucleocytoplasmic protein transport68
It takes more than forceful leaders67
Complete quantum toolbox for an acoustic resonator67
Frontogenesis at Jovian high latitudes67
Inadequacy of the Casimir force for explaining a strong attractive force in a micrometre-sized narrow-gap re-entrant cavity66
Imaging isospin order in rhombohedral graphene reveals anisotropy in correlated states66
Still going strong66
Programmable simulations of molecules and materials with reconfigurable quantum processors65
Bias in physics peer recognition does not explain gaps in perceived peer recognition65
Real-time microscopy of the relaxation of a glass65
Polar rain64
A recipe for speed64
High-efficiency optical training of itinerant two-dimensional magnets64
Collective motion of electrons captured at the atomic scale64
Ultrafast room-temperature valley manipulation in silicon and diamond64
Synthetic cells on the move64
Gap-opening time periodic perturbations63
Electrons with Planckian scattering obey standard orbital motion in a magnetic field63
Time interfaces for broadband coherent wave manipulation62
The prize at the end of the quantum tunnel61
Continuous recoil-driven lasing and cavity frequency pinning with laser-cooled atoms61
Born effective charges and vibrational spectra in superconducting and bad conducting metals61
Towards meaningful diversity, equity and inclusion in physics learning environments60
An ocean of code60
Long-lived Bell states in an array of optical clock qubits60
Isospin magnetic texture and intervalley exchange interaction in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene59
Topological Kondo insulator in MoTe2/WSe2 moiré bilayers59
Tunable interplay between light and heavy electrons in twisted trilayer graphene59
Kondo with a topological twist58
Unidirectional coherent quasiparticles in the high-temperature rotational symmetry broken phase of AV3Sb5 kagome superconductors58
A crowd of marine embryos self-assembles into a living solid58
When percolation triggers fatigue58
Evidence of dual Shapiro steps in a Josephson junction array58
Ultrasensitive single-ion electrometry in a magnetic field gradient57
Squeezing, trisqueezing and quadsqueezing in a hybrid oscillator–spin system57
Holographic dynamics simulations with a trapped-ion quantum computer57
Evidence for odd-parity superconductivity underpinned by antiferromagnetism in heavy-fermion metal YbRh2Si257
Collisionally stable gas of bosonic dipolar ground-state molecules57
Braiding reflectionless states in non-Hermitian magnonics57
Discrete degeneracies distinguished by the anomalous Hall effect in a metallic kagome ice compound56
Sequence-specific interactions determine viscoelasticity and ageing dynamics of protein condensates56
A metallic room-temperature d-wave altermagnet56
Pressure induced superconductivity in hybrid Ruddlesden‒Popper La5Ni3O11 single crystals56
Bloch oscillations of coherently driven dissipative solitons in a synthetic dimension55
Crossed Luttinger liquid hidden in a quasi-two-dimensional material55
DART hits the bullseye55
Controlling interactions between high-frequency phonons and single quantum systems using phononic crystals55
Liquid drop crystals54
How to restore trust in science through education54
Qubits inside junctions get joined up54
Field guides54
The way the bubbles ride54
A faithful but bleak portrayal54
Optimal simulation of quantum dynamics54
Inspired by disorder53
A difference of consequence53
The past and present of frozen bubbles53
The bit juggler53
Adaptation in doubt53
One- and two-dimensional cluster states for topological phase simulation and measurement-based quantum computation53
Excitons dance as light conducts53
Squeeze it tight53
Publisher Correction: Selective and collective actuation in active solids52
Thermopower probes of emergent local moments in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene51
Observation of antiferromagnetic order in a quasicrystal51
Protecting expressive circuits with a quantum error detection code51
Cyclic jetting enables microbubble-mediated drug delivery51
Trapped magnetic flux in superconducting hydrides51
Observation of a hidden charge density wave liquid51
Distinct elastic properties and their origins in glasses and gels51
The hidden hierarchical nature of soft particulate gels50
Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations50
Anomalous enhancement of the Nernst effect at the crossover between a Fermi liquid and a strange metal50
Observation of dissipationless fractional Chern insulator50
Valley-polarized excitonic Mott insulator in WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattice50
Observation of Josephson harmonics in tunnel junctions50
Electron matter waves with internal torque50
Unconventional superconducting quantum criticality in monolayer WTe250
Photoengineering the magnon spectrum in an insulating antiferromagnet50
A dual-species Rydberg array50
Cavity-mediated long-range interactions in levitated optomechanics50
Emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics in chaotic quantum systems50
Single- and two-mode magnon thermal squeezing49
Dipolar spin wave packet transport in a van der Waals antiferromagnet49
Identifying the quantum fingerprint of plasmon polaritons49
Violation of Bell inequality by photon scattering on a two-level emitter49
Interacting magnetic hedgehogs49
Citation inequity and gendered citation practices in contemporary physics49
Growth and control of suspended ice bridges during sessile droplet freezing49
Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production49
Active solids sync up49
Life through the fluid dynamics lens48
A kagome antiferromagnet reaches its quantum plateau48
Anomalous quantization without an edge48
Waves break the symmetry48
Publisher Correction: Observation of triple J/ψ meson production in proton-proton collisions47
Author Correction: Ultrafast X-ray imaging of the light-induced phase transition in VO247
Author Correction: Tunable quantum simulation of spin models with a two-dimensional ion crystal47
The amorphous materials behind biophysics47
The expanding role of National Metrology Institutes in the quantum era46
On the wings of a butterfly46
Quantum statistics in the minimal Bell scenario46
Spectral evidence for Dirac spinons in a kagome lattice antiferromagnet46
Vibrational responses of polar skyrmions46
Atom-trap trace analysis of 41Ca/Ca down to the 10–17 level46
Attosecond circular-dichroism chronoscopy of electron vortices46
Gravity is attractive46
Metremania46
A thermodynamic explanation of the Invar effect46
Josephson–Coulomb drag effect between graphene and a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 superconductor46
Nonclassical near-field dynamics of surface plasmons45
Quantifying the role of antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the superconductivity of the doped Hubbard model45
Non-equilibrium entropy production and information dissipation in a non-Markovian quantum dot45
Disruption prediction with artificial intelligence techniques in tokamak plasmas45
Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence45
Topological edge and corner states in bismuth fractal nanostructures45
Self-regulation of phenotypic noise synchronizes emergent organization and active transport in confluent microbial environments45
Realization of a continuous time crystal in a photonic metamaterial44
Observation of spin polarons in a frustrated moiré Hubbard system44
Tap the potential of PhD students44
Nonlinear nanomechanical resonators approaching the quantum ground state44
Demonstration of dynamic surface codes44
A metallic road to localization43
Non-Abelian chiral dynamics in a lattice under synthetic SU(2) gauge fields43
Bending rigidity, sound propagation and ripples in flat graphene43
Broadband squeezed microwaves and amplification with a Josephson travelling-wave parametric amplifier43
Understanding the formation of gas bubbles at liquid–liquid interfaces43
Lorentz invariance beyond the Planck scale43
Shaping the propagation of light in complex media43
Topology shapes dynamics of higher-order networks43
Defects show self-constraint in active nematics43
Supervise the algorithms43
Piezomagnetic switching of the anomalous Hall effect in an antiferromagnet at room temperature43
Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force–velocity relation for collective cell migration43
Undetectable electrons in solids with two pairs of sublattices42
Charges tied with magnetic strings42
Quantum underpinnings of an all-photonic switch42
Optical trapping and tailoring of exciton-polariton condensates into macroscopic complexes42
Thermopower reveals localized electrons42
No σ on σ42
Transient absorption of warm dense matter created by an X-ray free-electron laser41
Magnon-Cherenkov effect from a picosecond strain pulse41
Verification of the area law of mutual information in a quantum field simulator41
Nanoscale spin waves get excited41
Non-Hermitian topology in a multi-terminal quantum Hall device41
Scaling and intermittency in turbulent flows of elastoviscoplastic fluids41
Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryo41
Observation of fixed lines induced by a nonlinear resonance in the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron41
Graph states of atomic ensembles engineered by photon-mediated entanglement41
Superconductivity from a melted insulator in Josephson junction arrays41
Enhanced statistical sampling reveals microscopic complexity in the talin mechanosensor folding energy landscape40
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