Communications Physics is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the physical sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new insight to a specialized area of research in physics. We also aim to provide a community forum for issues of importance to all physicists, regardless of sub-discipline. The scope of the journal covers all areas of experimental, applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physical sciences and includes (but is not limited to): Astrophysics and cosmology Atomic and molecular physics Biophysics and biological physics Chemical physics Complex systems and network science Condensed-matter physics Electronics and device physics Energy materials Fluid dynamics High-energy particle physics Information theory and computation