Cond-mat Update

Tue, 13 August 2024 from Nature (31 papers)
Multimodal approach steps up the search for axion insulators
Single-crystalline metal-oxide dielectrics for top-gate 2D transistors
Winds of change: reshaping Tenerife’s energy economy
Silicon Valley is cheerleading the prospect of human–AI hybrids — we should be worried
New photonic integrated circuits offer high performance and scalable manufacturing
Superconductivity paper spurs dispute as field reels from earlier scandal
ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it
Why ChatGPT can't handle some languages
How expert skateboarders use physics on the half-pipe
Tsung-Dao Lee obituary: boundary-breaking physicist who won Nobel prize at just 30
Physics solves a training problem for artificial neural networks
Where weird plants thrive: aridity spurs diversity of traits
A nebular origin for the persistent radio emission of fast radio bursts
Fully forward mode training for optical neural networks
Shore up renewable energy in wake of Brazil’s devastating floods
How South Africa can move on from power cuts
Quantum computing aims for diversity, one qubit at a time
Slow productivity worked for Marie Curie — here’s why you should adopt it, too
We need to prepare our transport systems for heatwaves — here’s how
Black holes made from light? Impossible, say physicists
Fish can tell the direction of sounds — here’s how
Microchip minutiae imaged using rapid X-ray bursts
The mathematician who helps Olympic swimmers go faster
High-performance 4-nm-resolution X-ray tomography using burst ptychography
Cheap light sources could make AI more energy efficient
How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs
Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots
Partial coherence enhances parallelized photonic computing
Sophisticated natural products as antibiotics
Wasted renewables deny households cheap energy
Rhapsodies in green: the poetry of plant biology