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Active, Entangled or Confined: Polymer Physics Across Synthetic and Living Matter
This Collection aims to unite research from diverse disciplines, encompassing theoretical, computational, and experimental studies that elucidate links between geometry, molecular architecture, and dynamical observables.
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Physical Machines for Energy-Based Computation
This collection aims at connecting theory, experiments, and applications where energy landscapes are used for computation.
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Confined Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion
This cross-journal collection aims at exploring a wide range of topics in confined plasmas and nuclear fusion research and invites original research contributions from a variety of devices and laboratories.
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AI-empowered X-ray and neutron studies in material science
This cross-journal Collection highlights the application of AI techniques to advance X-ray and neutron scattering and spectroscopy techniques in material science. Explore the latest research including AI-enabled approaches for instrument operation, data acquisition, and data analysis.
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Nonlinear dynamics of living systems
This cross-journal Collection focuses on approaches that use nonlinear dynamical systems to uncover organizing principles in living systems, together with experiments that are explicitly interpreted through such frameworks.
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Women in Quantum
In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (QST) 2025, this collection intends to promote awareness of these challenges and showcase strategies for overcoming them, by giving voice to senior female figures in the field, active in both academia and industry, while sharing their passion for their work and their vision for the future of QST.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
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.”
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was 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."
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Odd Soft Matter: Simulations, experiments and applications of Machine Learning
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.
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Bacterial physiology and self-organization through the lens of physics
This Collection aims to bring together research from diverse aspects of physical biology, focusing on the interplay of physical laws and bacterial behaviour and physiology.
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Designing Order: Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials
This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the advances in Crystal polymorphism in Soft and Functional Materials.
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Quantum machine learning: understanding capabilities, limitations, and perspectives for quantum advantage