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Lorna Brigham

Lorna Brigham is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. She holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry and completed her PhD at the University of Sussex, where she specialised in photovoltaic materials. Lorna joined the Reports on Progress in Physics journal team in 2024 and has since developed a strong interest in condensed matter and particle physics. Outside of work, she enjoys reading novels and strength training.

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A new standard for p‑wave scattering theory

High‑precision loss measurements reveal orbital‑resolved p‑wave recombination in ultracold ⁶Li

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Long range attraction between like charged particles

Direct measurements show that electrosolvation forces can bring particles together and holds them in long-lived bound states

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Hidden polarization unlocks non-volatile Hall switching

Bilayer materials with layer‑locked Berry curvature dipoles can toggle their nonlinear Hall response under an applied gate field, offering a pathway to new nonlinear quantum devices

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Ferroelectric devices push reservoir computing forward

By pairing a ferroelectric capacitor with a linear capacitor, researchers create a power‑efficient device with tuneable memory and strong nonlinear responses

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A new explanation for negative thermal expansion

Revealing how copper atoms shift under heat offers a blueprint for engineering materials with precisely controlled expansion

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How topological surfaces strengthen magnetism

Topological surface states are found to mediate a strong, non‑oscillatory interaction that aligns magnetic moments and enhances ferromagnetic order

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Superconductivity’s new contender

Doubly charged excitons in transition‑metal dichalcogenide bilayers may unlock an entirely new route to friction‑free charge flow

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A single theory for complicated quantum systems

A unified field‑theoretic framework models open quantum spins across all coupling and memory regimes

Illustration of a system which new methodology introduced in the paper can handle, including its non-Markovian dynamics: two-dimensional array of mutually interacting two-level systems, such as qubits or spins-1/2, is coupled to hot and cold bosonic baths

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Revealing hidden orbital topology in light-element materials

Phosphorene hosts an orbital Chern insulator with an experimentally distinct orbital Hall effect

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The search for new bosons beyond Higgs

CMS researchers probed top‑quark pairs for signs of new scalar and pseudoscalar particles

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