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Condensed matter physics and materials science form a dynamic partnership, exploring how the collective behavior of atoms gives rise to the unique properties of solids and liquids. This field bridges the gap between fundamental quantum mechanics and the practical engineering of everything from flexible electronics to superconductors, turning abstract theories into tangible innovations that shape our daily lives.
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Below are the latest papers in condensed matter and materials science, organized by their most recent publication dates.
This study demonstrates that twistronics can induce moiré-periodic polarization vortices and multiferroic behavior in metallic SrRuO₃ films by leveraging shear strain gradients to overcome charge screening, thereby extending topological polarization design into the realm of metals.
Using in situ transmission electron microscopy, researchers demonstrate that repeated ultrafast laser-induced magnetostructural phase transitions in FeRh thin films generate and rearrange dislocation networks, which switch the nucleation mechanism from homogeneous to heterogeneous, thereby lowering the transition temperature and stabilizing sub-micron magnetic vortices.
This study validates the quantitative accuracy of Electron Magnetic Circular Dichroism (EMCD) for measuring spin and orbital magnetic moments in FeRh down to sub-10 nm spatial resolution, demonstrating its capability to characterize local magnetic properties in correlated materials that are inaccessible to photon-based techniques.
This paper establishes through theory, simulation, and experimental refinement that while anomalous absorption effects in 3D electron diffraction generally cause negligible errors for routine structure determination, they become significant and necessary to include for high-atomic-number materials at thicknesses approaching the extinction distance.
This paper utilizes point group representations to classify four distinct types of spin-orbit coupling-induced spin splittings (Rashba, Dresselhaus, Weyl, and Ising) in noncentrosymmetric non-magnetic crystals, deriving their energy expressions, minimal tight-binding models, and nodal features while identifying specific material realizations to provide a foundational framework for studying related collective electronic phenomena.
This study demonstrates that diamond particles embedded in a cubic boron nitride matrix undergo a shock-induced phase transformation into graphite during hypersonic impact at Mach 8.45, a process that serves as the primary mechanism for energy absorption and fracture in the composite.
This paper introduces a framework of optimally embedded tight-binding models that treats orbital positions as tunable parameters to quantitatively reproduce geometry-dependent observables, such as non-linear optical responses, without compromising band structure accuracy.
This paper introduces a continuous-wave quantum relaxometry protocol that overcomes the temporal limitations of conventional pulsed methods by extracting spin-lattice relaxation times () from frequency-domain responses, thereby enabling efficient, high-throughput sensing across a broad range of timescales and temperatures, including in nanodiamonds.
This study employs ab initio calculations to demonstrate that metal-encapsulated biphenylene bilayers serve as efficient bifunctional catalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, with specific metals like Mn and Fe identified as optimal for ORR and OER respectively, driven primarily by the d-orbital charge population of the intercalated metal.
This paper demonstrates that a printable hexagonal boron nitride ionogel enables efficient low-voltage gating of epitaxial Bi (111) films, revealing a non-rigid band response with tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling and multiband transport effects that cannot be explained by conventional Fermi level shifts.