Physics Today

Article	Citations
Viscous electron fluids	60
Majorana qubits for topological quantum computing	48
How does the wind generate waves?	35
Does new physics lurk inside living matter?	30
Inducing new material properties with hybrid light–matter states	27
Ptychography: A solution to the phase problem	21
Metasurfaces for quantum technologies	18
The physics of lipidic mesophase delivery systems	18
Branched flow	18
Liquid metals at room temperature	17
The quantum mechanics of viscosity	17
Nanotubes from layered transition metal dichalcogenides	16
Science and technology of the Casimir effect	16
A deterministic source of single photons	15
Aerodynamic heating in hypersonic flows	14
Intuitive or rational? Students and experts need to be both	13
The physics of river prediction	13
Computed tomography turns 50	12
Hydrogen-powered aircraft may be getting a lift	12
The math behind epidemics	11
Machine-learning-assisted modeling	11
Electric propulsion of spacecraft	10
Living cells on the move	10
Quantum firmware and the quantum computing stack	9
A quantum leap in security	9

Neutron scattering for structural biology	9
US government acts to reduce dependence on China for rare-earth magnets	9
Tying celestial mechanics to Earth’s ice ages	8
The demons haunting thermodynamics	8
The secret world in the gaps between brain cells	8
Accelerating progress in climate science	8
Exploring cultural heritage through acoustic digital reconstructions	7
A molecular road movie	7
Ocean acoustics in the changing Arctic	7
There is no quantum measurement problem	7
Universities overcome bumps in transition to online teaching	7
Synthetic dimensions	6
Iron-based superconductors: Teenage, complex, challenging	6
Why are theorists excited about exotic nuclei?	6
Graphene gets bent	6
COVID-19 pandemic modeling is fraught with uncertainties	6
Accelerating astrophysics with the SpaceX Starship	6
Medieval weather prediction	6
Light-driven spin chemistry for quantum information science	6
World’s physics instruments turn their focus to COVID-19	6
A journey to touch the Sun	6
Illuminating the darkest galaxies	6
Connecting extreme weather events to climate change	6
Magnetic field–boosted superconductivity	6
Dawn of the topological age?	6
Whatever happened to cellulosic ethanol?	6
Addressing the quantum measurement problem	6
Drops in cells	5
Magnetic fields for modulating the nervous system	5
Ethics in physics: The need for culture change	5
Clogging: The self-sabotage of suspensions	5
How does light behave in a material whose refractive index vanishes?	5
The undermining of science is Trump’s legacy	5
The cost of solar energy production has plunged, but it needs to fall further	5
A field guide to angle-independent structural color	4
Mingling art and science opens minds	4
Paul Langevin, U-boats, and ultrasonics	4
Relativistic quantum chaos in graphene	4
Ernest Rutherford’s ambitions	4
The warmth of wind power	4
Physics and poetry	4
Canada’s nuclear future brightens	4
The US is in dire need of STEM teachers	4
S is for Science: The making of 3-2-1 Contact	4
Electrification of cars and trucks likely won’t disrupt the grid	4
Lawrence Livermore achieves a burning plasma in the lab	4
Guiding inventions from lab to market	4
Embracing imperfection for quantum technologies	4
Quantum computing ramps up in private sector	4
Where does outer space begin?	4

An atomic physics perspective on the kilogram’s new definition	4
So you want to hire a professor!	3
Iridium marks the spot	3
Unveiling the mystery of solar-coronal heating	3
US particle physicists envision future of the field	3
Physics … is for girls?	3
The complexities of the human placenta	3
Improving science education: It’s not rocket science—it’s harder!	3
Accelerator experiments are closing in on neutrino CP violation	3
The rapid acidification of sea spray aerosols	3
Particle physicists hash out long-term strategy for Europe	3
Overlooked mechanisms behind seismic damage	3
The surface hydrology of Antarctica’s floating ice	3
When learning physics mirrors doing physics	3
Deep learning opens up protein science’s next frontiers	3
The theory of black hole formation shares the Nobel Prize in Physics	3
A windfall for US carbon capture and storage	3
Ultimate turbulent thermal convection	3
Mark Yakovlevich Azbel	3
Helium prices surge to record levels as shortage continues	3
Clean hydrogen edges toward competitiveness	3
Further delays at ITER are certain, but their duration isn’t clear	3
Quantum materials out of equilibrium	3
Ballooning satellite populations in low Earth orbit portend changes for science and society	3
Commentary: Science and colonialism	3
Physics Nobel honors foundational quantum entanglement experiments	3
James Jeans and The Mysterious Universe	3
Cometary chemistry	3
Could hydrogen bail out nuclear power?	3
Finnish–Soviet nuclear icebreakers	3
A single-atom heat engine	3
Reflections on an academic job search	3
Isaac Newton and the perils of the financial South Sea	3
Microchip accelerators	3
Enceladus erupts	2
More on the quantum measurement problem	2
Metal cations drive carbon dioxide’s chemical reduction	2
Climate tipping points: A personal view	2
When tenure fails	2
Diamond’s sparkle is in more than gemstones	2
Better ways to store energy are needed to attain Biden’s carbon-free grid	2
In Ukraine, science will need rebuilding postwar; in Russia, its isolation could endure	2
Celestial background of 1869 eclipse	2
“Peaceful” nuclear explosives?	2
Burning branches	2
When does a molecule make up its mind?	2
Nanophotonics for a sustainable future	2
Sarah Frances Whiting and the “photography of the invisible”	2
Atlantic invertebrates are going the wrong way	2
Leaving politics aside	2
More on the demons of thermodynamics	2
Lessons from 35 years in industry	2
Chip-scale sensor detects light’s orbital angular momentum	2
Biological tissues as mechanical metamaterials	2
Building a ship in a bottle for neutrino science	2
Fruit photonics and the shape of water	2
Lead-208 nuclei have thick skins	2
Water makes its mark on GPS signals	2
Despite unknowns, NNSA plunges ahead on plutonium pits	2
Computational phonogram archiving	2
Nobel Prize in Physics honors the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the heart of the Milky Way	2
Even underwater, money talks	2
Thermodynamics of the climate system	2
Malaysian physics and the maker ethos	2
Nuclear is carbon-neutral	2
Mushy-layer convection	2
Is the electric potential physical?	2
The squeezes, stretches, and whirls of turbulence	2
When your academic ladder is longer	2
The road from academia to entrepreneurship	2
Europe’s experiment in funding graphene research is paying off	2
Unveiling exozodiacal light	2
Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel	2
A new look at the proton sea	2
Boiling eggs, radiation damage, and the Arrhenius plot	2
The clean-energy challenge	2
ITER and the prospects for commercial fusion	2
An unconventional superconductor isn’t so odd after all	2
Where do new PhDs work?	2
Einsteinian subtleties in Magritte’s Time Transfixed	2

Hackathons catch on for creativity, education, and networking	2
A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy	2
Replacing high-risk radioactive materials remains a challenge	2
The new laser weapons	2
24 000 years of climate change, mapped	2
Israel has become a powerhouse in quantum technologies	2
Capture alone isn’t sufficient to bottle up carbon dioxide	2
Nobels neglect fluid dynamics	2
A new undersea volcano is born east of Africa	2
Repulsive Casimir forces	1
Cats and llamas could offer a path to coronavirus therapies	1
The rich past of astronomical discovery	1
New books & media	1
Idaho project tests the limits of DOE aid to advanced reactors	1
The (soft) propaganda value of lunar exploration	1
Photonic waveguides shed their cladding	1
Quasiparticle poisoning in superconducting quantum computers	1
Another look at the proton sea	1
STEM volunteers	1
How to become a successful physicist	1
Revisiting science and colonialism	1
High radiation dose rates may improve cancer therapy	1
Jack Steinberger	1
New books & media	1
Evgeny Evgrafovich Meshkov	1
Commentary: Elitism in physics: What happens when the profession’s cultural scaffolding comes down?	1
Beating back the coronavirus requires a bigger arsenal	1
NIF success gives laser fusion energy a shot in the arm	1
DNA assembles nano-objects	1
Hybrid scientific conferences: An ongoing experiment	1
The structures of protoplanetary disks	1
Stuck at home, physicists pivot to combat COVID-19	1
Quasicrystals and the birth of the atomic age	1
The Great Lakes are filled to their brims, with no signs of receding	1
They were astronomers	1
Philip Warren Anderson	1
Cold-atom lattice bends topological rules	1
Free textbooks and other open educational resources gain popularity	1
Panel recommends road map for US particle physics	1
Ten billion years ago, galaxies were already running out of gas	1
Twisted bilayer graphene’s gallery of phases	1
Designer proteins act as logic gates	1
It’s all too much	1
Global movement to reform researcher assessment gains traction	1
Solving the century-old mystery of background Love waves	1
Scientists dismayed by interruption at US’s most productive neutron source	1
Back to the Moon ... to stay?	1
Manhattan Project astrophysics	1
Sand and mucus: A toolbox for animal survival	1
Engineering better science education	1
Macroscopic mechanical oscillator is herded into a Schrödinger cat state	1
3-2-1 Contact: Scientists at the writers’ table	1
Re-creating the physical experience of sound	1
The quest is on to remove petro- from petrochemicals	1
Icebreakers and Arctic ice melt	1
Philip Anderson: Virtuoso of condensed matter	1
Contributions to computed tomography	1
Where physics meets biology: More information	1
The dynamics and changes of the world’s monsoons	1
Dipolar supersolids: Solid and superfluid at the same time	1
ITER appears unstoppable despite recent setbacks	1
The inner workings of atomic force microscopy	1
Frequency-dependent squeezing makes LIGO even more sensitive	1
Medieval astrometeorology’s legacy	1
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light	1
Artificial hands make lifelike movements	1
Transportable atomic clocks achieve laboratory precision	1
Entropy and order work together in an artificial spin ice	1
A family of two-dimensional conductors comes into bloom	1
My journey from academia to the US government and beyond	1
Asteroids in the inner solar system	1
Where physics meets biology: More information	1
The air we breathe in a car	1
Optical analogues to NMR spectroscopy	1
Benjamin Breneman Snavely	1
Alarm sounded over declining US radiation professional workforce	1
Join four African students for their MIT journeys	1
New books & media	1
Stretchy molecules rupture far from the crack	1
Universities ramp up efforts to improve faculty gender balance and work climate in STEM	1
Muon measurements embolden the search for new physics	1
Reviews of quantum foundations	1
College instructors adapt their teaching to prevent cheating	1
Roddam Narasimha	1
More on the demons of thermodynamics	1
DOE medical isotope campaign nears completion	1
Photoelectrons shine a light on dark excitons	1
Terraforming Mars	1
Acoustics of multiuse spaces	1
Tidal turbine development ebbs and flows	1
The future of meetings	1
Subtle historical connections between Magritte and Einstein	1
James Jeans’s views on the nature of reality	1
Units, for good measure	1
Capturing the human side of Cold War science	1