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May issue

This month we feature an Insight on cold and ultracold molecules, and examine burning plasmas and fuel gain exceeding unity in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion.

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    This Insight issue celebrates and reviews recent progress in the generation and study of cold and ultracold molecules and ions for applications in quantum simulation, metrology and chemistry.

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    • A superfluid is a macroscopic system with zero viscosity through which entropy is reversibly transported by waves. An unexpected transport phenomenon has now been observed between two superfluids, where irreversible entropy transport is enhanced by superfluidity.

      • Marion Delehaye
      News & Views
    • In solids, the quantum metric captures the quantum coherence of the electron wavefunctions. Recent experiments demonstrate the detection and manipulation of the quantum metric in a noncollinear topological antiferromagnet at room temperature.

      • Su-Yang Xu
      News & Views
    • Multi-step transitions between a variety of topological spin textures have been unveiled in a centrosymmetric magnet, which may enable efficient multistate memory and logic devices.

      • Jayjit Kumar Dey
      • Sujit Das
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    • A clear picture of how and why cells inevitably lose viability is still lacking. A dynamical systems view of starving bacteria points to a continuous energy expenditure needed for maintaining the right osmotic pressure as an important factor.

      • Ann Xu
      • Hyun Youk
      News & Views
    • Ultrafast light pulses, if they are sufficiently intense, can induce phase transitions on ultrafast timescales. It is now shown that when a system is first excited by a weak preparatory pulse, this generates local changes in structure that transiently lower the energy barrier to the phase transition, enabling high-speed and energy-efficient transitions.

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