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Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Physics is 22. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Hares and hounds	423
Peer review in a changing world	408
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	382
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	371
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	292
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	270
Photoemission electron microscopy for 2D materials	258
Spontaneous vortex formation in rotating fluids	255
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	245
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	230
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	230
Mechanobiology across timescales	213
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	212
How fast ions mitigate turbulence and enhance confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas	192
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	185
Science in the age of large language models	181
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	172
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	171
Physicists and the first computing revolution	171
Tree of light	167
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	165
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	161
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	161
Shorebird feeding reveals a new liquid transport mechanism	152
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	142

Diffusion metamaterials	139
Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials	135
Did you check for ravens?	130
Drying droplets at a printhead nozzle	130
From swarms to films	129
Intervening in networks to make minorities more visible	129
Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics	128
How spin-off companies can play a role in science communication	120
Advancing molecular simulation with equivariant interatomic potentials	120
Precise pulse characterization using SHG-FROG	117
25 years of small-world network theory	115
Quantum sensing for particle physics	110
50 years of quantum spin liquids	109
Ultrafast physics with structured light	107
Imaging whole-brain activity to understand behaviour	106
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials	104
More and different at the interface	101
Uptake of ride-sharing schemes	100
JWST sees little red dots	100
Computational scientists should consider climate impacts and grant agencies should reward them	98
Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence	95
Patently funny and possibly useful	95
Principles for demonstrating condensed phase optical refrigeration	95
Meeting report: all-female speaker line-up in condensed matter	93
Publisher Correction: Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers	90
15 years of topological insulators	88
New approaches to dark matter detection	86
The attoscience of strong-field-driven solids	82
Physical limits in electromagnetism	82
Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development	81
Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing	81
The transformative potential of machine learning for experiments in fluid mechanics	79
The physics of fizz	73
Tidal disruption events and high-energy neutrino coincidences	73
Artificial dynamical effects in quantum field theory	71
Algae patterns	69
Shifting sands of hardware and software in exascale quantum mechanical simulations	66
Calling all early-career physicists	66
Supersolidity in ultracold dipolar gases	66
Rashba-like physics in condensed matter	55
Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems	55
Point defects in metal halide perovskites	55
Quantum sensors for biomedical applications	53
The role of particle shape in computational modelling of granular matter	52
Data sharing varies across physics	51
70 years at the high-energy frontier with the CERN accelerator complex	51
W boson mass is worth the wait	47
Nobel 1944: resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments	46
Faster Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions	46
Physics in Latin America	46

Topological phonons in graphene	44
Collective motion strategies of sheep	43
Benchmarking quantum computers	41
Current numbers of qubits and their uses	41
Visualizing twisted 2D materials with electron channelling contrast imaging	39
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	39
Progress in quantum teleportation	39
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	38
70 years of CERN	36
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	36
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	35
Scientists need a break too	35
An open-source initiative would benefit quantum computing	35
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	34
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100	34
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging	33
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena	33
A century of Compton scattering	33
How technology made condensed matter physics boring	32
Physics words with surprising origins	32
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	32
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars	31
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences	31
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron	31
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets	31
Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity	30
Publisher Correction: Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate	30
Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials	30
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules	30
The climate emergency demands scientists take action and here’s how	30
Nobel 2005: coherence and precision spectroscopy	29
Nobel 1985: the quantum Hall effect	28
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton	28
Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers	27
Topological thermal transport	26
Spinning a strong yarn	26
Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems	26
Engineered dissipation for quantum information science	26
Fire ant rafts	25
A meeting point for art and science	25
Starting a conversation about social issues in optics and photonics	24
Theoretical tools for understanding the climate crisis from Hasselmann’s programme and beyond	24
Five books that put physics in context	24
Mapping the landscape for graphene commercialization	24
Orbital angular momentum lasers	23
Generative AI and science communication in the physical sciences	23
Cooper pairs in a metallic state	23
Strong evidence for the discovery of a gravitational wave background	22
Go to talks by women	22
Directed percolation and the transition to turbulence	22