Nature Reviews Physics

Article	Citations
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime	3033
Nonlocality with massive particles and mesoscopic systems	1531
The scientific article as a master finding system	366
Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!	315
70 years of CERN	275
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction	221
Generation of large strains in 2D van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperatures	217
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	209
Bringing together science and fiction	185
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging	176
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test	173
Phonon-limited electronic transport through first principles	169
How the Cold War changed quantum education	164
Peer review in a changing world	159
How redundancy and distributed control are helping make robots autonomous	156
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	150
Fighting stereotypes	149
Shapes of ice and rock	147
The physics of breakfast	144
Then and now	143
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100	142
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	141
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	139
How detection and imaging technologies could make us better humans	137
Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure	130

When scientists disagree	128
Nature Reviews Physics turns five	115
Quantum Zeno effect at 45	115
Boxfish keels	112
Hares and hounds	112
How you can change gender stereotypes about physicists	105
Networks get more cliquey as they grow	103
Ten years of IceCube	102
Hydraulic spider legs	101
The long and winding road	95
Why we ask for synopses	92
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state	91
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	89
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	88
Weaving smooth 3D shapes with curved ribbons	88
Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition	86
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena	85
Experimental signatures of the chiral anomaly in Dirac–Weyl semimetals	84
Ab initio methods for superconductivity	84
Quantum rotations of nanoparticles	84
Graphene nanoribbons for quantum electronics	83
New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background	82
Light–matter interaction at atomic scales	81
Machine learning as a tool in theoretical science	80
Machine learning and density functional theory	76
Machine-and-data intelligence for synchrotron science	76
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	75
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro	75
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures	74
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	74
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	73
The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation	72
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider	71
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning	71
Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials	70
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence	70
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes	69
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	68
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	68
Making clean electrical contacts on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides	67
Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics	66
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model	65
Learning quantum systems	64
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging	61
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	61
Thermal conductivity of materials under pressure	60
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy	60
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments	60
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	58
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	58

High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	54
Materials discovery screening with pymatgen	50
Visual anemometry for physics-informed inference of wind	48
Controlling water waves with artificial structures	48
A new frontier for Hopfield networks	45
60 years of Landauer’s principle	44
A century of Compton scattering	44
10 years of the quantum anomalous Hall effect	43
90 years of the Wigner crystal	42
A brief history of nonlinear excitations	42
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	41
A snapshot of 2023	40
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light	40
Too much efficiency leads to delays	40
Science in the age of large language models	40
Forging personal connections with science through storytelling	36
Physics words with surprising origins	36
Big science in India	36
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity	34
The early days of Monte Carlo methods	31
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton	30
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron	30
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars	30
Automated reproducible workflows and data provenance with AiiDA	29
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy	27
50 years of Penrose tilings	26
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	25
How technology made condensed matter physics boring	25
A new century of quantum physics	24
Tree of light	23
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?	23
Bird nest packing	23
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences	22
The mechanics of emus’ unusual gait	22
How to teach climate change in a physics classroom	22
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets	22
Looking back at 2024	22
Physicists and the first computing revolution	22
The difficult but necessary role of political engagement for scientists	21
A model for changing land use	21
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	21
Why review Reviews	21
To reform peer review, we need to understand its past	20
Neutrino physics over the two decades since the first SNO result	20
Physics does not exist in a vacuum	20
Discovery of the odderon	20
Controlling light with air	20
How can we make science more rigorous?	19
A festival of cosmic fireworks	19
The rise of data-driven modelling	19
A year to celebrate quantum physics	19
In fusion, collaboration is both a necessity and an opportunity	19
Nobel 1924: the physics of precision	18
How a one-off public engagement event turned into an international science festival	18
Precision isotope-shift spectroscopy for new physics searches and nuclear insights	18
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	18
Science should inspire, but visions need nuance	17
Author Correction: Scanning near-field infrared microscopy	17
Making the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology happen	17
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how	17
A milestone in fusion research is reached	16
Author Correction: Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures	16
How to assess the carbon footprint of a large-scale physics project	16
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules	15
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	15
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy	15
Thouless pumping and topology	15
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting	15
Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum geometry in twisted multilayer systems	15
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture	14
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions	14
The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies	14
Diffusion metamaterials	14
Probing topological quantum matter with scanning tunnelling microscopy	13
The superconducting diode effect	13
Single-molecule FRET for probing nanoscale biomolecular dynamics	13
Probing charge density in materials with atomic resolution in real space	13
The physics of optical computing	12
High-accuracy electronic structure calculations with QMCPACK	12
How promoting domestic electricity became physics outreach	11

The hidden sustainability cost of the reproducibility crisis	11
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems	11
Proliferating active matter	11
Dipolar many-body complexes and their interactions in stacked 2D heterobilayers	11
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	10
Morphogenesis beyond in vivo	10
Nanoscale diamond quantum sensors for many-body physics	10
Learning quantum states from their classical shadows	9
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science	9
Anyons in quantum Hall interferometry	9
Topological defects in biological matter	9
The spectrum of early career physics	9
Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits	8
Physics of exotic nuclei	8
The physics of 3D printing with light	8
How to verify the precision of density-functional-theory implementations via reproducible and universal workflows	8
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	8
Topological thermal transport	8
From physics to art and back	7
100 years of ferroelectricity	7
How the Bell tests changed quantum physics	7
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	7
Quantum enhancement in generative models	7
A meeting point for art and science	6
25 years of small-world network theory	6
50 years of quantum spin liquids	6
How to incorporate climate change into high-school physics	6
Delivering fusion energy needs bold decisions and sustained commitment	6
RF dressing with two-component fermions in optical lattices	6
Did you check for ravens?	6
Farewells and hellos at Nature Reviews Physics	6
Fire ant rafts	6
Black scientists at Bell Labs	6
Spinning a strong yarn	5
Entanglement between a pair of top quarks	5
Ten books for ten years of Higgs	5
The Higgs announcement as open science	5
From swarms to films	5
Elongated cells in 3D clusters are more motile	5
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain	5
Droplets in cell nuclei are controlled by chromatin	5
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	5
Learning the flow	5
Seventy-five years of quantum electrodynamics	5
40 years of quantum computing	4
75 years of the path integral formulation	4
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	4
Physics should acknowledge its environmental impact and act on it	4
Hidden in plain sight	4
Ising machines as hardware solvers of combinatorial optimization problems	4
Freezing droplets that de-ice themselves	4
AI is no substitute for having something to say	4
Fantastic titles and where to find them	4
A century of matter waves	4
Nanoscale laser writing of 3D ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate	4
Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics	4
A series of fast-paced advances in Quantum Error Correction	3
Sustainable heat harvesting via thermal nonlinearity	3
Five books that put physics in context	3
Harnessing the power of chemically active sheets in solution	3
How to optimize high-order harmonic generation in gases	3
Building a brighter future for Africa with the African Light Source	3
30 years of exoplanet detections	3
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences	3
A look at the full stack	3
Photophysical properties of materials for high-speed photodetection	3
Imaging with metamaterials	3
Why a culture of brilliance is bad for physics	3
First-principles calculations for topological quantum materials	3
US–China relations in a historical context	3
Can a dual mandate be a model for the global governance of AI?	3
High-temperature superconductivity	3
Optical superlattices in quantum gas microscopy	3
Nanoscale magnetic field imaging for 2D materials	3
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background	3
The importance of documenting failure	3
A fresh understanding of the Mpemba effect	2
Chiral spintronics	2
Neural operators for accelerating scientific simulations and design	2
Acoustic resonances in non-Hermitian open systems	2
Controlling covalent chemistry on graphene oxide	2
Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s	2
A survey on the complexity of learning quantum states	2
Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes	2
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials	2
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	2
Publisher Correction: Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing	2
Orbital angular momentum lasers	2
Analogue simulations of quantum gravity with fluids	2
New directions in hypernuclear physics	2
Advances in machine-learning-based sampling motivated by lattice quantum chromodynamics	2
Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics	2
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics	2
Visualizing big science projects	2
Laser trapping and manipulation of exciton–polariton quantum fluids	2