Communications Physics
Communications Physics is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the physical sciences.
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- We invite submissions for our collection: Odd soft matter www.nature.com/collections/...
- Reviewer of the month, December 2025: Chengjie Xia is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics at East China Normal University. His research focuses on investigating granular assemblies using magnetic resonance imaging and employing statistical physics.
- Our featured article, 2026: Properties of pair plasmas emerging from electromagnetic showers in matter. rdcu.be/e0Acw
- Our featured article, January 2026: Distribution of antiferromagnetic rare-earth domains in multiferroic Dy₀.₇Tb₀.₃FeO₃. rdcu.be/e0Abg
- Our featured article, January 2026: Observational causality by states and interaction type for scientific discovery. rdcu.be/e0z9H
- Our featured article, January 2026: Coulomb-mediated single-electron heat transfer statistics across capacitively coupled silicon nanodots. rdcu.be/e0z8Y
- Our featured article, November 2025: Anderson transition symmetries at the band-edge of a correlated Sn/Si monolayer rdcu.be/eTMEn
- Our featured article, November 2025: High-dimensional quantum key distribution with Qubit-like states rdcu.be/eTMDp
- Our featured article, November 2025: Reconfigurable and active time-reversal metasurface turns walls into sound routers rdcu.be/eTMAZ
- In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (QST) 2025, this collection highlights the voices of leading women shaping the field — from academia to industry — as they share their passion, challenges, and vision for the future of QST. www.nature.com/collections/...
- Women in Quantum: an interview with Ilana Wisby As founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she helped shape Europe’s quantum landscape, championed love-based leadership, and is now building a new venture in stealth. rdcu.be/ePTsP
- Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. It is time for a real change that calls for a different kind of force and for the participation of everyone. rdcu.be/eOKTB
- Reviewer of the month: Breanna Binder is an Associate Professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is interested in characterizing high-mass X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies, using them as tracers of star formation and endpoints of massive stellar evolution.
- Welcoming Sophie Roman and Brato Chakrabarti to our Editorial Board. They bring expertise in flow microdynamics, geochemistry, biophysics, and soft and active matter.
- Our featured article, September 2025: Predicting fracture in disordered network materials using the local intelligent stress threshold indicator. rdcu.be/eLnhe
- Our featured article, September 2025: Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning. rdcu.be/eLngV
- Our featured article, September 2025: Highly efficient broadband THz mixing and upconversion with Dirac materials. rdcu.be/eLnfl
- Our featured article, September 2025: Hybridization of lattice and charge order excitations in a superconducting cuprate. rdcu.be/eLncB
- Dominik Juraschek is our Outstanding Reviewer for October 2025. He is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science.
- The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Nature Portfolio recognises the achievements of the Laureates in this collection. www.nature.com/collections/...
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. Nature Portfolio presents a collection that celebrates the contributions by the awardees and the technological advances they have enabled. www.nature.com/collections/...
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 11:45 CEST stream from Stockholm. Watch the official announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FU...
- This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, and data-driven models that converge on measurable, designable odd responses in soft systems. www.nature.com/collections/...
- This Focus Collection in Communications Physics aims to bring together research from diverse aspects of physical biology, focusing on the interplay of physical laws, bacterial behaviour and physiology. www.nature.com/collections/...
- This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the advances in Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials. www.nature.com/collections/...
- Women in Quantum: an interview with Marilù Chiofalo — on leadership, inclusion, and the future of quantum technologies. rdcu.be/eHXXV
- Women in Quantum: an interview with Gloria Platero — on mentorship, inclusive research ecosystems, semiconductor quantum dots, and the future of quantum technologies. rdcu.be/eHYhl
- Interpreting molecular ratchets, directionality, and kinetic asymmetry through the work of Curie, Einstein, and Lewis : A Perspective rdcu.be/eE84X
- Our featured article, August 2025: Active adaptolates featuring motility-induced percolating structures with an adaptive packing geometry rdcu.be/eEt01
- Our featured article, August 2025: Long-lived optical coherence and spin lifetimes in Eu³⁺:Y₂O₃ oxide ceramics for quantum memories rdcu.be/eEtXz
- Our featured article, August 2025: Manipulating photodissociation dynamics via an embedding UV pulse rdcu.be/eEtM3
- Our featured article, August 2025: Josephson diode effect in nanowire-based Andreev molecules rdcu.be/eEtNa
- This month, we welcome five new members to our Editorial Board: Lu Chen, Marlies Goorden, Inhyuk Nam, Jun-yu (Bruce) Yu, Jasminder Sindhu. They bring expertise in very broad and diverse areas, reflecting the growth of the journal.
- Outstanding reviewer, August 2025: Rajasekhar Medapalli is an Editor for Advanced Functional Materials at Wiley with a research background in ultrafast and localised light-matter interactions governing the interplay between electrons, spins, and the lattice.
- Our featured article July, 2025 Topological Weyl altermagnetism in CrSb Altermagnets constitute a novel fundamental class of magnetic materials, alongside with ferro- and antiferromagnets. The authors connect altermagnetism to the world of topology. rdcu.be/eBBSF
- Our featured article July, 2025 Novel spin dynamics in the superconducting state of kagomé superconductor rdcu.be/eBBRp
- Our featured article July, 2025 Ultrathin 3R-MoS₂ metasurfaces with atomically precise edges for nonlinear nanophotonics: The study employs top-down lithography and anisotropic wet etching to fabricate atomically precise, ultrathin metasurfaces for effecient second-harmonic generation. rdcu.be/eAS1d
- Our featured article July, 2025 On shape classification in crystal growth simulations: This study combines disentangling autoencoders with spherical harmonic descriptors to map continuous transformations between crystal morphologies while preserving crystallographic principles. rdcu.be/eASRr
- Tensor networks for lattice gauge theories beyond one dimension: Here is a review of the state of the art, a roadmap for algorithmic developments, and resource estimates to guide applications in high-energy physics. rdcu.be/eAhXx
- Georgios Koutentakis is our outstanding reviewer of the month. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, where he develops theoretical frameworks for interacting ultracold atoms and molecules.
- The discovery of superconductivity in the nickelates offers the opportunity to gain further insight into the mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity. Here, the authors employ epitaxial strain to investigate superconductivity in La₃Ni₂O₇ thin films. rdcu.be/evk0w
- The rise of multi-Petawatt lasers opens new frontiers in exploring the quantum vacuum. This study presents real-time 3D simulations of vacuum birefringence and four-wave mixing, based on a semi-classical numerical solver integrated into a Particle-In-Cell code OSIRIS. rdcu.be/evkW4
- Optically actuated microrobots enable precise microscale manipulation, yet achieving multiple degrees of freedom remains challenging. This work presents a chiral microrobot driven by optical tweezers that achieves controlled out-of-plane rotation and exhibits versatile actuation modes. rdcu.be/evbgD
- Analysis of a dataset tracking the evolution of social relationships among 900 individuals over four years reveals evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks. rdcu.be/eva7P
- A century of Bose–Einstein condensation: a testament to how curiosity-driven research can shape the course of scientific innovation in unexpected and exciting ways. rdcu.be/eurpg
- Lachlan Lindoy is our outstanding reviewer of this month. He is a Senior Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. He develops theoretical techniques for the simulation of non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics with applications to condensed phase chemical and materials systems.
- This cross-journal collection explores recent progress in high-energy light sources. We invite contributions of original research aimed at improving energy scaling, beam quality control, and stability for both well-established and emerging sources. www.nature.com/collections/...
- Designing materials that adapt to their surroundings and change shape on command requires understanding the rules of statistical physics. In this collection, we invite significant original research, perspectives, and review articles on the geometry of soft systems. www.nature.com/collections/...
