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Prospects for a Solid-State Nuclear Clock

December 31st, 2025

1. Frequency ratio of the 229mTh nuclear isomeric transition and the 87Sr atomic clock
Authors: Chuankun Zhang, Tian Ooi, Jacob S. Higgins, Jack F. Doyle, Lars von der Wense, Kjeld Beeks, Adrian Leitner, Georgy A. Kazakov, Peng Li, Peter G. Thirolf, Thorsten Schumm, and Jun Ye
Nature 633, pages 63–70 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07839-6

2. Temperature Sensitivity of a thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock
Authors: Jacob S. Higgins, Tian Ooi, Jack F. Doyle, Chuankun Zhang, Jun Ye, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, and Thorsten Schumm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113801 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.113801

3. Frequency reproducibility of solid-state Th-229 nuclear clocks
Authors: Tian Ooi, Jack F. Doyle, Chuankun Zhang, Jacob S. Higgins, Jun Ye, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, and Thorsten Schumm
arXiv:2507.01180 [Nature (in press)], DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.01180

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin (Yale Quantum Institute) and Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado)
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_01
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Insulating and metallic p-wave magnets

December 31st, 2025

1. Electrical switching of a p-wave magnet
Authors: Qian Song, Srdjan Stavrić, Paolo Barone, Andrea Droghetti, Daniil S. Antonenko, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Connor A. Occhialini, Batyr Ilyas, Emre Ergeçen, Nuh Gedik, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rafael M. Fernandes, Silvia Picozzi, and Riccardo Comin
Nature 642, 64–70 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09034-7

2. A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate spin helix
Authors: Rinsuke Yamada, Max T. Birch, Priya R. Baral, Shun Okumura, Ryota Nakano, Shang Gao, Motohiko Ezawa, Takuya Nomoto, Jan Masell, Yuki Ishihara, Kamil K. Kolincio, Ilya Belopolski, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Kazuki Ohishi, Takashi Ohhara, Ryoji Kiyanagi, Taro Nakajima, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, Yukitoshi Motome, Moritz M. Hirschmann, and Max Hirschberger
Nature 646, 837–842 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09633-4

Recommended with a commentary by Yuan Li , Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_02

What can biochemical networks compute?

December 31st, 2025

Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes
Authors: Carlos Floyd, Aaron R. Dinner, Arvind Murugan, and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
Nat. Comm 16, no. 1 (2025): 7184, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61873-0

Recommended with a commentary by Krishna Shrinivas , Northwestern University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_03

 

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