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Precise and scalable generation of high-quality NV centers is crucial for their integration into quantum devices. Here the authors demonstrate the high-yield controlled fabrication of highly coherent NV centers in prefabricated nanostructures with three-dimensional nanoscale spatial confinement, using a combination of δ-doping and focused electron beam irradiation.

Two-qubit operations exceeding 99% fidelity have been demonstrated by silicon devices made with standard semiconductor tooling in a 300-mm foundry environment.

Hole spin qubits in germanium have seen significant advancements, though improving control and noise resilience remains a key challenge. Here, the authors realize a dressed singlet-triplet qubit in germanium, achieving frequency-modulated high-fidelity control and a tenfold increase in coherence time.

Spins confined to quantum dots are a possible qubit, but the mechanism that limits their coherence is unclear. Here, the authors use an all-optical Hahn-echo technique to determine the intrinsic coherence time of such spins set by its interaction with the inhomogeneously strained nuclear bath.

Hole spin semiconductor qubits suffer from charge noise, but now it has been demonstrated that placing them in an appropriately oriented magnetic field can suppress this noise and improve qubit performance.

The coherence times of nitrogen-vacancy centres are key factors influencing their performance in quantum applications. Here the authors show that synthesising phosphorus-doped diamond yields nitrogen-vacancy centres with significantly improved \(T_2^ \ast\) and T₂.

Plant traits drive ecosystem dynamics yet are challenging to map globally due to sparse measurements. Here, the authors combine crowdsourced biodiversity observations with Earth observation data to accurately map 31 plant traits at 1 km² resolution.

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) associated uveitis can cause vision loss in children, but mechanisms remain unclear. The authors here identify elevated CD19⁺IgD^-CD27^- double negative type 1 B cells in JIA-uveitis and show that targeting B-T cell interactions suppresses disease in mouse models of uveitis.

Introgression of the short arm of rye chromosome one into common wheat increases root biomass and drought tolerance, but the underlying genetic basis is unknown. Here, the authors report that dosage differences in 12-OXOPHYTODIENOATE REDUCTASE genes modulate the differences of wheat root architecture.

Myxobacteria, particularly Sorangium strains, are rich sources of bioactive natural products but are challenging to genetically engineer. Here, the authors present an efficient electroporation method for multiple Sorangium strains and reveal a revised model of ambruticin biosynthesis.

There is an extensive literature discussing the potential applications of individual nitrogen vacancy centres but some proposed developments require the use of multiple, coupled defects. Here the authors demonstrate a method to fabricate coupled nitrogen vacancy centre triplets.

Nuclear spins in solid-state systems can have very long coherence times, which makes them attractive for use as qubits. Now a nuclear spin qubit device has been developed with all-microwave two-qubit control that has important performance benefits.

Silicon-based spin qubits are promising candidates for a scalable quantum computer. Here the authors demonstrate the violation of Bell’s inequality in gate-defined quantum dots in silicon, marking a significant advancement that showcases the maturity of this platform.

A three-dimensional (3D) nanofabrication platform based on metalens-generated focal spot arrays is introduced to parallelize two-photon lithography beyond centimetre-scale write field areas, revealing the potential of 3D nanolithography towards wafer-scale production.

Identifying jets originating from heavy quarks plays a fundamental role in hadronic collider experiments. In this work, the ATLAS Collaboration describes and tests a transformer-based neural network architecture for jet flavour tagging based on low-level input and physics-inspired constraints.

Chemical language models trained on known metabolites can identify previously unknown metabolites from mass spectrometry-based metabolomics data with high accuracy.

Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells suffer from instability under rapid thermal cycling. Here, Sun et al. investigate the degradation mechanism, showing that temperature-induced structural strain, phase transition, and increased non-radiative defects drive the degradation processes.

In targeted protein degradation, a degrader molecule brings a neosubstrate protein proximal to a hijacked E3 ligase for its ubiquitination. Here, pseudo-natural products derived from (−)-myrtanol—iDegs—are identified to inhibit and induce degradation of the immunomodulatory enzyme indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) by a distinct mechanism. iDegs prime apo-IDO1 ubiquitination and subsequent degradation using its native proteolytic pathway.

Inhibitor-induced kinase degradation is a common event that positions supercharging of endogenous degradation circuits as an alternative to classical proximity-inducing degraders.

This work challenges the view of nucleation governing halide perovskite grain morphology, showing that most additives act post-nucleation by boosting ion mobility across grain boundaries, triggering grain coarsening, similar to post-processing effects.

Quantum systems make it challenging to determine candidate Hamiltonians from experimental data. An automated protocol is presented and its capabilities to infer the correct Hamiltonian are demonstrated in a nitrogen-vacancy centre set-up.

The coherent operation of individual ³¹P electron and nuclear spin qubits in a ²⁸Si substrate shows new benchmark decoherence times and provides essential information on the dechorence mechanism.

The detection and coherent control of single ¹³C nuclear spins in hexagonal boron nitride at room temperature enables the use of van der Waals materials in upcoming quantum technologies.

Initialization and operation of spin qubits in silicon above 1 K reach fidelities sufficient for fault-tolerant operations at these temperatures.

A scalable silicon quantum processor unit cell made of two qubits confined to quantum dots operates at about 1.5 K, achieving 98.6% single-qubit gate fidelities and a 2 μs coherence time.

Here authors demonstrate how a 2D hybrid perovskite melts and forms glass, uncovering atomic-scale structural and dynamic evolution across the crystal–liquid–glass transition. Local structural motifs are retained, advancing understanding of amorphous hybrid materials.

Encasing a single atom within a fullerene (C₆₀) cage can create a robustly packaged single atomic spin system. Here, the authors perform electron paramagnetic resonance on a single encased spin using a diamond NV-center, demonstrating the first steps in controlling single spins in fullerene cages.

Recently released documents give the inside story of Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. They reveal flaws in the award-making process — and an attempt to rewrite history.

Ionizing radiation can cause simultaneous charge noise in multi-qubit superconducting devices. Here, the authors measure space- and time-correlated charge jumps in a four-qubit system in a low-radiation underground facility, achieving operation with minimal correlated events over 22 h at qubit separations beyond 3 mm.

Superradiance is usually driven by light-mediated couplings, leaving the role of direct emitter interactions unclear. Now, it is shown that dipole–dipole interactions in diamond spins drive self-induced pulsed and continuous superradiant masing.

Donors spins in silicon are coherent, high-performance qubits, but scale-up has been challenging. Here the authors present the first experimental demonstration of exchange-based, entangling two qubit gates between electrons bound to ³¹P donors in Si.

The authors present a theoretical treatment demonstrating that NMR experiments on chiral molecules can reveal enantioselective nuclear J-couplings due to bond polarization and spin-orbit interaction. This also aids in understanding chirality-induced phenomena more generally and their applications.

MicroRNAs regulate brain development and aging. Here, authors show that a spatio-temporal atlas of 15 mouse brain regions reveals sex- and region-specific microRNA patterns, including age-related microglial miR-155-5p increase targeting mTOR.

The CMS Collaboration reports the measurement of the spin, parity, and charge conjugation properties of all-charm tetraquarks, exotic fleeting particles formed in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

Fluctuating nuclear spin ensembles are a significant decoherence mechanism for solid-state spin qubits. Here the authors introduce an approach to controlling and extending the coherence of a nuclear spin bath around self-assembled quantum dots and gain insight into the many-body dynamics.

Individual electrons trapped on the surface of solid neon can operate as charge qubits with very long coherence times.

Molecular electron spins are promising qubit candidates, however physical implementation of quantum gates is challenging. Little et al. explore the implementation of two-qubit entangling gates between nitroxide spin centres by pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance, building on NMR quantum computing protocols.

A single electron spin in silicon is dressed by a microwave field to create a new qubit with tangible advantages for quantum computation and nanoscale research.

Deciphering the formation sequence of surface methoxy species (SMS) and dimethyl ether (DME) in zeolite-catalyzed methanol reactions remains a challenge. Here, the authors tackle this issue by employing a microenvironment design strategy to steer reaction pathways within zeolite channels, enabling SMS formation from DME decomposition catalyzed by Brønsted acids at 363 K.