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    This joint collection by Communications Physics and Communications Engineering covers from the fundamental to the most applied aspects of Optical Computing. We welcome original research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives from academics and industry.

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    This focus collection captures a slice of current progress and perspectives---deepening the understanding of gauge theory quantum simulation, broadly defined, and driving the community toward large-scale quantum simulations of gauge theories.

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    This Focus Collection aims to disseminating insights into the device physics of next-generation solar cells through experimental techniques and theoretical models to overcome barriers posed by non-radiative recombination and stability concerns.

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    This Focus Collection aims to comprehensively cover both theoretical and experimental fronts in the engineering of next-generation flat band platforms, with the goal of generating new types of emergent states and introducing novel materials systems exhibiting correlated states at elevated energy scales.

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    The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.

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    This Focus Collection aims to bring together cutting-edge experimental and theoretical developments in the rapidly evolving field of microwave quantum communication and sensing.

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    This collection aims to provide a description of the state-of-the-art in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopic measurements, including applications, technological developments and theoretical studies to explore ultrafast phenomena in isolated quantum systems.

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    This Collection highlights theoretical and experimental original research and commissioned commentary on topics in quantum many-body dynamics. The

    Image: Featured image of Hales et al., Nat Commun 14, 3512 (2023); Credit to: Yao Wang
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    In this Focus Collection, many different facets of the interdisciplinary field of photochemically triggered switches and motors, intertwining molecular physics, spectroscopy, material science, and computational chemistry, are brought together to provide our readers with a selection of works reflecting the latest advances emerging challenges, and future aims in this exciting research field.

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