Sliding Ferroelectricity Driven Spin-Layertronics in Altermagnetic Multilayers

This paper proposes a mechanism for nonvolatile electrical manipulation of spin and layer degrees of freedom in altermagnetic bilayers, such as CuF2, by utilizing sliding ferroelectricity to reversibly switch d-wave altermagnetic spin splitting, thereby enabling multifunctional spin-layertronic devices with potential multi-state logic applications.

Rui Peng, Guangxu Su, Yangyang Fan, Jiaan Li, Fanxin Liu, Yee Sin AngThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

An Atlas of Extreme Properties in Cubic Symmetric Metamaterials

This paper presents a comprehensive atlas of approximately 1.95 million cubic symmetric metamaterials derived from all 36 cubic space groups, revealing extreme mechanical properties like high bulk-to-shear ratios and negative Poisson's ratios, while introducing a 3D convolutional neural network surrogate model to accelerate the discovery and design of such architected materials.

Sahar Choukir, Nirosh Manohara, Chandra Veer SinghThu, 12 Ma🔬 physics.app-ph

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Multi-Step Condensed Matter Chemistry: A Path Integral Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermal Decomposition

This study demonstrates that Path Integral Molecular Dynamics simulations reveal nuclear quantum effects significantly accelerate the thermal decomposition of the TATB crystal and lower its activation energy by approximately 8% compared to classical methods, while highlighting that the Quantum Thermal Bath approximation substantially overestimates these quantum acceleration effects.

Jalen Macatangay, Alejandro StrachanThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Importance of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction on the carrier mobility of anharmonic halide perovskites

This study demonstrates that nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interactions significantly influence the finite-temperature carrier mobility of the anharmonic halide perovskite CsPbI3_3, altering its temperature scaling and contributing approximately 10% to the mobility at room temperature, thereby highlighting the necessity of including such effects in theoretical models of these materials.

Matthew Houtput, Ingvar Zappacosta, Serghei Klimin, Samuel Poncé, Jacques Tempere, Cesare FranchiniThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Ab-initio superfluid weight and superconducting penetration depth

This paper presents a computationally efficient framework for calculating the zero-temperature superfluid weight and magnetic penetration depth from first principles by separating conventional and quantum geometric contributions, thereby enabling large-scale screening of superconductors and validating the method against experimental data for conventional materials.

Kaja H. Hiorth, Martin Gutierrez-Amigo, Théo Cavignac, Kristjan Haule, Miguel A. L. Marques, Päivi TörmäThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Microscopic screening theory for excitons in two-dimensional materials: A bridge between effective models and ab initio descriptions

This paper presents a computationally efficient microscopic screening theory for excitons in two-dimensional materials that bridges the gap between effective models and first-principles methods by employing an atomistic description with quantum-screened interactions to accurately estimate binding energies and address discrepancies in existing literature.

P. Ninhos, A. J. Uría-Álvarez, C. Tserkezis, N. A. Mortensen, J. J. PalaciosThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Island Sliding Barriers: A first-principles metric for determining remote epitaxy viability

This paper utilizes first-principles calculations to demonstrate that the sliding barrier of small islands on a graphene-covered substrate, rather than electrostatic potential, serves as the most rigorous metric for predicting the viability of remote epitaxy, suggesting the phenomenon is governed by island migration kinetics.

Quinn T. Campbell, Manny Xavier de Jesus Lopez, Anthony Rice, Timothy J. Ruggles, Taisuke Ohta, Caitlin McCowan, Sadhvikas Addamane, Scott W. Schmucker, Justine KoepkeThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Commensurate-Incommensurate Transition in Submonolayer 3^3He on Graphite

High-precision heat-capacity measurements of submonolayer 3^3He on graphite reveal a second-order transition between two striped domain-wall phases below 1 K, where the melting of the fixed-spacing α2\alpha_2 phase into the variable-spacing α1\alpha_1 phase supports the existence of a quantum nematic state characterized by one-dimensional phonons.

A. Kumashita, J. Usami, S. Komatsu, Y. Yamane, S. Miyasaka, H. Fukuyama, A. YamaguchiThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-driven instabilities in square-kagome quantum antiferromagnets

By combining *ab initio* calculations with generalized Schwinger-boson mean-field theory, this study demonstrates that while exchange coupling to decorating sites stabilizes a gapped quantum-paramagnetic phase in the square-kagome antiferromagnet Na6_6Cu7_7BiO4_4(PO4_4)4_4Cl3_3, symmetry-allowed Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions suppress the spinon gap and drive the system toward a magnetic instability.

Leonid S. Taran, Arnaud Ralko, Fedor V. Temnikov, Vladimir V. Mazurenko, Sergey V. Streltsov, Yasir IqbalThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Neural Field Thermal Tomography: A Differentiable Physics Framework for Non-Destructive Evaluation

The paper introduces Neural Field Thermal Tomography (NeFTY), a differentiable physics framework that parameterizes 3D material diffusivity as a continuous neural field optimized via a rigorous numerical solver to achieve high-resolution, quantitative reconstruction of subsurface defects from transient surface temperature measurements, overcoming the limitations of traditional 1D approximations and soft-constrained PINNs.

Tao Zhong, Yixun Hu, Dongzhe Zheng, Aditya Sood, Christine Allen-BlanchetteThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Bidirectional Learning of Relationships between Atomic Environments and Electronic Band Dispersion in Semiconductor Heterostructures

This paper introduces a bidirectional learning framework that links local atomic environments to electronic band dispersion in semiconductor heterostructures using atomically resolved spectral functions, enabling both the prediction of electronic bands from atomic structures and the inference of atomic descriptors from spectroscopic data.

Artem K Pimachev, Sanghamitra NeogiMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Learning the action for long-time-step simulations of molecular dynamics

This paper proposes a machine learning approach that learns data-driven, structure-preserving (symplectic and time-reversible) maps equivalent to the mechanical action of a system, enabling accurate long-time-step molecular dynamics simulations that eliminate the energy conservation and equipartition artifacts typical of non-structure-preserving ML predictors.

Filippo Bigi, Johannes Spies, Michele CeriottiMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Oxygen-vacancy-induced Raman softening in the catalyst Fe2_2(MoO4_4)3_3

This study employs density functional theory calculations to demonstrate that oxygen vacancies in the Fe2_2(MoO4_4)3_3 catalyst cause the experimentally observed Raman intensity reduction through oxygen-dominated vibrational modes, while rapid oxygen diffusion from the bulk to the surface preserves local symmetry, thereby explaining the absence of peak shifts or broadening.

Young-Joon Song, Roser ValentíMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Mode selectivity in electron promoted vibrational relaxation of chemisorbed hydrogen on molybdenum and tungsten surfaces

This study calculates the vibrational linewidths of chemisorbed hydrogen on molybdenum and tungsten surfaces using first-order time-dependent perturbation theory, revealing strong coverage dependence and mode-selective electron-phonon coupling that aligns with experiments for Fano-shaped peaks but underestimates Lorentzian peaks, suggesting that adsorbate-adsorbate interactions become significant energy dissipation channels at high coverages.

Nils Hertl, Connor L. Box, Reinhard J. MaurerMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Spin-wave emission with current-controlled frequency by a PMA-based spin-Hall oscillator

This paper demonstrates a high-efficiency spin-Hall oscillator based on a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy gallium-substituted yttrium-iron-garnet (Ga:YIG) that achieves current-controlled spin-wave emission with an extended bandwidth, offering a promising platform for neuromorphic computing applications.

Moritz Bechberger, David Breitbach, Abbas Koujok, Björn Heinz, Carsten Dubs, Abbass Hamadeh, Philipp PirroMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Many-electron systems with fractional electron number and spin: exact properties above and below the equilibrium total spin value

This paper rigorously derives the exact properties of the ensemble ground state for many-electron systems with fractional electron numbers and spin projections, resolving ground-state ambiguities in low-spin cases via entropy maximization, characterizing high-spin dependencies, and establishing generalized ionization potential theorems and new derivative discontinuities to advance density functional theory approximations.

Yuli Goshen, Eli KraislerMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Mellin-Space Prony Representability of Linear Viscoelastic Models

This paper establishes a necessary and sufficient condition for the finite Prony representability of linear viscoelastic models by analyzing the alignment of arithmetic pole lattices in the Mellin transform of the complex modulus, thereby providing a complete analytical taxonomy that classifies classical models as finitely representable and fractional or log-normal models as requiring infinite Prony ladders.

Dimiter ProdanovMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Synergistic cross-modal learning for experimental NMR-based structure elucidation

The paper introduces NMRPeak, a unified cross-modal learning system trained on a large-scale experimental and simulated dataset that bridges the simulation-to-experiment gap to achieve high-accuracy molecular retrieval and de novo structure generation for automated NMR-based structure elucidation.

Fanjie Xu, Jinyuan Hu, Jingxiang Zou, Junjie Wang, Boying Huang, Zhifeng Gao, Xiaohong Ji, Weinan E, Zhong-Qun Tian, Fujie Tang, Jun ChengMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

MolCrystalFlow: Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction via Flow Matching

MolCrystalFlow is a novel flow-based generative model that predicts molecular crystal structures by disentangling intramolecular complexity from intermolecular packing through rigid body embeddings and Riemannian manifold representations, thereby outperforming existing methods and enabling data-driven discovery of periodic molecular crystals.

Cheng Zeng, Harry W. Sullivan, Thomas Egg, Maya M. Martirossyan, Philipp Höllmer, Jirui Jin, Richard G. Hennig, Adrian Roitberg, Stefano Martiniani, Ellad B. Tadmor, Mingjie LiuMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci