To welcome work from areas across the physical sciences and inspire the new generation of physicists, this series of forward-looking Essays is designed to envision future directions for a given topic (see Editorial: Essaying Progress, PRL 130, 130001, 2023). Authors are invited to give their perspectives on the following questions:
Where is the area headed over the next decade? What are the most important unsolved problems? How could solutions to these problems be transformative for science and possibly for our daily lives? Will these solutions affect other areas of research or result in useful applications?
We hope you find these Essays interesting and thought-provoking.
