Physics Magazine

ALT A close-up of a superconducting qubit.

ALT On the left is a rendering of a 3D layered device connected to voltage sources and ground. To the right is a Hall bar device geometry with gold contact pads, measuring instruments, and ground connections.

ALT An illustration of three charged particles arranged in a single column with sets of blue arrows pointing up and to the left and right from each particle, forming three V shapes.

ALT Fluorescence microscopy image of two dividing cells, with blue nuclei, orange microtubule filaments, and green cytoskeletal structures against a black background.

ALT A photograph of purple and red flowers in a pot on an outdoor patio.

ALT A photograph of smoke emerging from the top of a volcano as seen from above.

ALT A close-up illustration of a flake of iron chalcogenide connected to bright yellow electrodes against a dark yellow background.

ALT Abstract image featuring a colorful array of dots in warm hues of red, orange, and yellow, with overlapping shapes in shades of blue.

ALT A rendering of three glowing 3D volumetric forms. From left to right, the shapes transition from cone-shaped to bell-shaped and from green to blue.

ALT A rendering of rays of pastel-colored light traveling through two rectangular prisms.

ALT Two examples of rhombus-shaped 4-site atomic clusters on Lieb lattices on a blue background.

ALT A graph of trapped atoms’ optical depth over 200 milliseconds. Red data points showing atoms loaded using the RPGC-molasses rise and level off near 20 during conventional cooling. When gray-molasses cooling begins at 50 milliseconds, blue points climb steeply and level off near 120. A small inset graph shows the effect peaking near zero when two lasers are tuned for this cooling method.

ALT A grid of yellow squares with the letters JTU written in blue and green. An inset black image on the bottom shows JTU again written in white.

ALT A grid of gray and white diamonds, with the gray diamonds featuring white arrows in the center that point in various directions. In the center of the grid is a red and a blue laser beam that meet and form a V shape. Around these lasers, the squares in the grid are tinted yellow and the arrows in the center of the gray diamond are colored black and all point to the right.

ALT An illustration of red wavy beams of laser light on the left, a green atom surrounded by a single electron in the center, and an analog clock on the right against a yellow background.

ALT An illustration of an open book. The text on the page on the left says “The Born Rule” and lists ingredients in bulletpoints: noncontextuality, normalization, and additivity. The word additivity is circled in red and below is red text that reads no substitutions.

ALT Artist’s illustration of the IceCube Lab sitting atop Antarctic ice at night. A cross section of the ice is visible in the foreground, making the strands of small, black sensors buried in the ice visible. A bright light source shines down from the sky in the top right corner.

ALT A 3D illustration of an optical setup on a white surface. A red laser beam passes through a lens and two transparent plates, turns orange after a copper-colored block, and continues past a black cube and a glass prism. A curved mirror reflects the orange beam onto a thin, light-blue jet surrounded by small blue spheres representing xenon atoms. A wavy blue line, representing an emitted electron, curves from the jet down to a round black detector.

ALT Illustration of a hybrid quantum computer. On the left, a wavy cyan line representing a boson and a yellow sphere representing a fermion meet at a central point and scatter apart, with arrows marking their path. On the upper right is a large circuit diagram representing the large numbers of qubits and gates. Below it, a much smaller circuit links one thick cyan boson line and one yellow fermion line with a few gates, representing the cavity modes.

ALT A star-shaped atomic pattern inside a chromium sulfur bromide crystal.