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    The behaviour of quantum fields in curved spacetime is simulated using a two-dimensional trapped quantum gas of potassium atoms with a configurable trap and adjustable interaction strength.

    • Celia Viermann
    • , Marius Sparn
    •  & Markus K. Oberthaler

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Through machine learning analysis of a large set of collider data, a study disentangles intrinsic from radiatively generated charm, and finds evidence for an intrinsic charm quark within the proton wavefunction.

    • Richard D. Ball
    • , Alessandro Candido
    •  & Juan Rojo

  • Perspective |

    Ten years since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the exploration of the Higgs sector, as this overview shows, has progressed far beyond original expectations, but many research questions still remain open.

    • Gavin P. Salam
    • , Lian-Tao Wang
    •  & Giulia Zanderighi

  • Review Article |

    Recent measurements of B-meson decays in which tau leptons are produced might challenge the standard model assumption that interactions of leptons differ only because of their different masses.

    • Gregory Ciezarek
    • , Manuel Franco Sevilla
    •  & Yutaro Sato

  • Letter |

    A digital quantum simulation of a lattice gauge theory is performed on a quantum computer that consists of a few trapped-ion qubits; the model simulated is the Schwinger mechanism, which describes the creation of electron–positron pairs from vacuum.

    • Esteban A. Martinez
    • , Christine A. Muschik
    •  & Rainer Blatt

  • Letter |

    An electronic analogue of a Michelson–Morley experiment, in which an electron wave packet bound inside a calcium ion is split into two parts and subsequently recombined, demonstrates that the relative change in orientation of the two parts that results from the Earth’s rotation reveals no anisotropy in the electron dispersion; this verification of Lorentz symmetry improves on the precision of previous tests by a factor of 100.

    • T. Pruttivarasin
    • , M. Ramm
    •  & H. Häffner

  • Letter |

    A very precise measurement of the magnetic moment of a single electron bound to a carbon nucleus, combined with a state-of-the-art calculation in the framework of bound-state quantum electrodynamics, gives a new value of the atomic mass of the electron that is more precise than the currently accepted one by a factor of 13.

    • S. Sturm
    • , F. Köhler
    •  & K. Blaum

  • News |

    Framework offers starting point to explaining how particles cope with fluctuations in gravity.

    • Eugenie Samuel Reich

  • Outlook |

    This year's Lindau meeting coincided with the biggest particle-physics discovery in a generation. Theoretical particle physicist Martinus Veltman, emeritus professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the 'standard model' of particle physics — the theory that predicted the Higgs boson. Yet he has spent the past 30 years doubting whether the Higgs exists.

    • Matthew Chalmers

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