Editors’ choice for the thematic issue “Condensed Matter Physics” is the paper A. N. Ignatenko and V. Yu. Irkhin, The Ising Nematic in the J1–J2 Heisenberg Model on a Square Lattice in a Self-Consistent Spin-Wave Theory // Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2023, Volume 87, Issue 11, P. 1611-1605.