Artist's impression of a carbon nanotube

Carbon-nanomaterial-enabled terahertz technology

Advances in the generation, detection and modulation of THz radiation using carbon nanomaterials.

Current issue

Volume 7 Issue 9
Contents
View all issues
Subscribe

Announcements

  • Famous physicists

    A Series that invites physicists, historians, sociologists, psychologists and other scholars to consider the following questions. How does physics work today? How did we end up with this system? How could we imagine physics in the future?

  • A blackboard that has equations and diagrams related to quantum physics written on it.

    The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics, but also aims to foster a wider dialogue to explore how quantum science and society can benefit each other. With this Series, we highlight how quantum science interacts with society and invite physicists, engineers, educators, historians and other scholars to contribute to this discussion.

  • abstract shapes on a light blue background

    On 29 September 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research came formally into existence, growing out of the post-war turmoil with the aim of establishing scientific collaboration between nations. Seventy years later, this laboratory — known to all as CERN — is credited with major developments in accelerator technology and crucial discoveries in the field of particle physics.

  • Sustainability

    This ongoing collection brings together articles from Nature Reviews journals about how physicists can contribute to environmental sustainability – both by working on questions that have direct relevance to sustainability goals and understanding Earth’s climate, but also by changing the ways physicists work.

Advertisement

Latest Reviews & Analysis

    • Radiacoustic imaging uses ultrasound waves generated by radiation energy deposition for imaging contrast. This Perspective highlights advances, mechanisms, and biomedical and materials science applications, and outlines challenges and opportunities for this emerging imaging technology.

      • Yifei Xu
      • Shawn Liangzhong Xiang
      Perspective

    • Artificial gauge fields unlock additional degrees of freedom to manipulating light in structured photonic systems. This Review strives to unify topological, non-Abelian and non-Hermitian photonics using the concept of gauge fields.

      • Wange Song
      • Yi Yang
      • Shuang Zhang
      Review Article

    • The Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid framework can be used to describe 1D quantum systems, spanning fermions, bosons and anyons. In this Review, we discuss the various platforms that can host TLL states, including Josephson junctions, cold atoms and topological materials, and discuss the advances TLL theory can provide in quantum criticality, nonequilibrium dynamics and condensed-matter physics exploration.

      • Isabelle Bouchoule
      • Roberta Citro
      • Bent Weber
      Review Article

    • Most bacteria exist in dense aggregates, yet this lifestyle is relatively poorly understood compared with planktonic cultures. This Review explores biophysical models of aggregate development, and how models can be extended to account for the complex behaviours of single-species and multispecies colonies.

      • Rachel Porter
      • Carolina Trenado-Yuste
      • Kerwyn Casey Huang
      Review Article

    • In the 1990s, the realization that helical beams carry orbital angular momentum started the field of structured light. In 2024, experiments showed that these beams preserve their phase information when traversing a turbid medium, which promises new applications in biophotonics.

      • Tatiana Novikova
      Year in Review

News & Comment

  • The wings of the Blue Morpho butterfly are natural photonic structures. Saaj Chattopadhyay explains how they can serve as simple and affordable interfaces to increase the colour and birefringent contrast in polarization microscopy.

    • Saaj Chattopadhyay
    Tools of the Trade

  • Particle accelerators are large-scale, complex projects, and they have some unique challenges when it comes to environmental sustainability. A group of particle accelerator researchers and environmental sustainability experts shares how community-specific guidance can help address these needs.

    • Hannah Wakeling
    • Philip Burrows
    • John Thomason
    Comment

  • Half a century ago, two theoretical papers were published that together sparked major new directions — conceptual, mathematical and practically applicable — in several previously disparate fields of science. In this Comment, the authors of one of those papers expose key aspects of the thinking behind them, their implementations and implications, along with sketches of several subsequent and consequential developments.

    • David Sherrington
    • Scott Kirkpatrick
    Comment

  • The debate over the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is full of comparisons between the rise of deep learning and the dawn of the nuclear age. It is instructive to ask why these comparisons are so popular.

    • Elisabeth Roehrlich
    Comment

  • To celebrate this year’s Ig Nobel Prize, we review some patents that raise a chuckle but are closer to serious research than it may seem at first glance.

    Editorial

Collections

Editors, authors and referees work together to to create high-quality, timely and accessible resources for the scientific community.

Writing for Nature Reviews Physics

At Nature Reviews, editors work closely with authors and referees to create high-quality, timely and accessible resources for the scientific community.
Collection

Advertisement

Trending - Altmetric