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Ten years of Nature Physics
In October 2015 we celebrate ten years of Nature Physics. With this occasion we revisit some results we published in this special News & Views series. We try to cover a broad spectrum of topics, but the selection is neither meant to be exhaustive, nor based on any measurable criterion – we simply chose what we believe to be twelve interesting stories that you would enjoy reading.
Editorial
Ten - pp789 – 790
doi:10.1038/nphys3516
Looking back at a decade of Nature Physics.
Feature
Top 10 physics discoveries of the last 10 years - pp799
Jorge Cham
doi:10.1038/nphys3500
Jorge Cham reflects on the most important physics discoveries of the past decade.
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News & Views
Ten years of Nature Physics: Reconnecting with two good friends - pp996 – 997
Ellen Zweibel
doi:10.1038/nphys3554
Two observational studies published in Nature Physics provided early evidence for the mechanisms of magnetic reconnection in three dimensions and in a turbulent medium.
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See also: Article by by Xiao et al | | Letter by Retinò et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Not trivial to realize - pp897 – 898
Joel E. Moore
doi:10.1038/nphys3554
In 2009, two papers provided the first unambiguous examples of three–dimensional topological insulators — bulk insulators boasting metallic surface states with massless Dirac electrons. These now form just one of many classes of topological materials.
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See also: Letter by Xia et al | Article by Zhang et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Numerical models come of age - pp808 – 810
E. Gull & A. J. Millis
doi:10.1038/nphys3554
When Nature Physics celebrated 20 years of high-temperature superconductors, numerical approaches were on the periphery. Since then, new ideas implemented in new algorithms are leading to new insights.
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See also: Feature by J. Zaanen et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Frozen motion - pp710 – 711
Ania Bleszynski Jayich
doi:10.1038/nphys3446
Cooling the motion of mechanical resonators to the ground state and subsequent advances in cavity optomechanics have been made possible by resolved-sideband cooling — an atomic-physics-inspired technique — first demonstrated in a 2008 Nature Physics papers.
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See also: Article by Schliesser et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: The ABC of 2D materials - pp625 – 626
Alberto F. Morpurgo
doi:10.1038/nphys3380
When do structures comprising a few crystalline sheets become truly two dimensional? The number of layers certainly plays a role, but in trilayer graphene, the way they're stacked matters too — as shown in a series of Nature Physics papers from 2011.
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See also: Letter by Zhang et al. | Letter by Lui et al. | Letter by Bao et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: It's not always who you know - pp528 – 529
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
doi:10.1038/nphys3380
Certain nodes are influential in spreading information — or infection — across a network. But these nodes need not be those with the most connections, and topology can play a key role, as a 2010 paper in Nature Physics established.
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See also: Letter by Kitsak et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Bound to be universal? - pp449 – 451
Cheng Chin & Yujun Wang
doi:10.1038/nphys3352
Three papers published in Nature Physics in 2009 revealed the intriguing three- and four-body bound states arising from the predictions by Vitaly Efimov nearly half a century ago. But some of these findings continue to puzzle the few-body physics community.
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See also: Letter by Knoop et al. | Letter by von Stecher et al. | Article by Zaccanti et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: From spooky foundations - pp383 – 384
Sebastian Deffner
doi:10.1038/nphys3318
Quantum entanglement is as confounding as it is potentially useful. A paper in 2006 suggested that its utility might extend to making sense of a fundamental puzzle in statistical mechanics.
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See also: Article by Popescu et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Go with the flow - pp305 – 306
Piotr Garstecki & Robert Holyst
doi:10.1038/nphys3297
A 2006 Nature Physics paper reported phonons in a one-dimensional crystal of aqueous droplets traversing a laminar oil flow – putting microfluidics on the map as a tool for unravelling the mechanisms behind regularity in thermodynamically open systems.
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See also: Letter by Beatus et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Jack of all trades - pp219 – 220
Robin Côté
doi:10.1038/nphys3250
Over the past decade, ultracold polar molecules have found application in hybrid quantum computation and quantum simulation, directions established in three early papers published in Nature Physics.
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See also: Article by André et al. | Article by Micheli et al. | Article by Büchler et al.
Ten years of Nature Physics: The monopole movement - pp99 – 100
Claudio Castelnovo
doi:10.1038/nphys3251
The monopole picture for spin ice offers a natural description of a confounding class of materials. A 2009 paper in Nature Physics applied it to study the dynamical properties of these systems – sparking intense experimental and theoretical efforts in the years that followed.
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See also: Letter by Jaubert & Holdsworth.
Ten years of Nature Physics: Slowly but surely - pp15 – 16
Ebrahim Karimi & Robert W. Boyd
doi:10.1038/nphys3210
In 2006, Nature Physics published a paper reporting a Stern–Gerlach effect for dark polaritons and one revealing the existence of slow-light solitons. Both of these papers have significantly advanced the field of slow-light research.
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See also: Letter by Karpa & Weitz. | Article by Mok et al.
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