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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.
By combining advanced spectroscopic techniques with theoretical calculations, this study establishes the three-dimensional electronic structure and momentum-dependent spin splitting of the layered altermagnet CoNbSe, providing the first direct spectroscopic evidence of its altermagnetic nature and revealing a weak low-temperature anomaly.
This study utilizes micro-focused ARPES and self-consistent modeling to reveal that a two-dimensional electron system in ultra-wide bandgap -GaO exhibits an anomalous, nearly twofold increase in electron mass at high carrier densities, indicating mass renormalization that deviates from conventional screening-based predictions.
This paper introduces MatOS, an agent operating system for materials research that utilizes a layered scientific asset graph, stateful adaptive workflows, and evidence-driven asset evolution to autonomously manage complex, long-running scientific tasks, demonstrating superior performance over existing agents and successfully executing diverse multi-stage materials discovery studies.
By chemically substituting non-magnetic Mg ions into the spin-chain compound Ba(CoMg)VO, researchers utilized inelastic neutron scattering and numerical calculations to reveal how finite-size effects create distinct boundary-confined spinons and collective cluster modes, effectively using chemical disorder as a "quantum microscope" to directly probe universal boundary physics in strongly correlated systems.
This study demonstrates that transition metal trichalcogenides (ZrS3, HfS3, TiS3, and NbS3) exhibit strong, polarization-dependent third harmonic generation with large anisotropy ratios, a phenomenon attributed to the proximity of the third harmonic energy to material-specific absorption edges and structural distortions like Nb-Nb dimerization.
This paper argues that long-term sustainability on Earth requires shifting focus from aggregate material quantities to fundamental rate constraints—such as power density and solar-driven repurification speeds—to develop technologies that are qualitatively compatible with biospheric operating conditions rather than relying on stock drawdown and high-power buffering.
This paper demonstrates that precursor ratio-controlled engineering of chloride vacancies in lead-free KCuCl3-x thin films enables forming-free, gradual resistive switching with superior neuromorphic learning capabilities, achieving high recognition accuracy on standard datasets.
This study demonstrates that the in-plane magnetoresistance of ultrathin FeSe/SrTiO3 films is extremely sensitive to magnetic field misalignment, and by employing a geometric model to account for this effect, the authors provide a practical framework for accurately investigating rotational symmetry breaking in two-dimensional superconductors.
This study reveals that trigonal CsAgS achieves ultralow lattice thermal conductivity through the simultaneous suppression of both particle-like and wave-like transport channels via localized Cs modes and a soft Ag-S framework, resulting in a high thermoelectric figure of merit () of 1.28 at 700 K.
Using high-resolution laser-based spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, this study directly observes a sizable, spin-polarized surface Dirac gap in the antiferromagnetic topological insulator NdBi that aligns with theoretical predictions, thereby establishing a definitive link between surface magnetism and the gap while offering a resolution to the long-standing discrepancy between theory and experiment in this class of materials.