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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 paper demonstrates a novel hybrid molecular beam epitaxy technique that utilizes electron beam radiolysis from an RHEED gun to induce the crystallization of rutile TiO2 thin films at significantly lower substrate temperatures than typically required, enabling tunable control over film crystallinity through substrate temperature and electron dose.
This paper establishes "altermagnetophononics" as a novel mechanism for ultrafast magnetic control in altermagnets like -MnTe and CrSb, where coherent phonon excitation selectively breaks symmetry to transiently induce a compensated ferrimagnetic phase with global spin splitting but zero net magnetization.
This study demonstrates that chemical short-range order (CSRO) acts as a thermodynamic state variable in Co30Cr40Ni30 complex concentrated alloys, where CSRO enrichment increases stacking-fault energies and suppresses deformation-induced martensitic transformation, thereby providing a new degree of freedom for controlling deformation pathways.
Inspired by natural dolomite minerals, researchers synthesized SnCo(BO3)2 and SnMn(BO3)2 to establish a chemically flexible dolomite-type material platform featuring equilateral triangular lattices that exhibit dominant antiferromagnetic interactions and offer promising potential for exploring frustrated quantum magnetism and low-temperature adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration.
This study investigates the structural, thermodynamic, and electrical transport properties of the half-Heusler compound TbAuPb, revealing its antiferromagnetic ordering, multiband hole-dominated transport with strong magnetoresistance coupling to magnetic phases, and a field-induced transition from a band-inverted semimetal to a topologically trivial state.
The paper introduces WEST, an open-source, GPU-accelerated plane-wave pseudopotential code that enables large-scale, predictive excited-state simulations of systems with over a thousand atoms by employing advanced algorithms to avoid explicit virtual state computations while supporting diverse applications from solid-state defects to liquid water.
This study demonstrates electric-field-controlled spin-charge conversion in a BiTe/BiFeO heterostructure, revealing that topological surface-state-dominated spin transport remains robust above a 10 nm thickness but vanishes at 5 nm due to hybridization-induced trivial insulating phases.
This study demonstrates that interfacing the light metal Cu with the band insulator WO induces a giant cubic Rashba effect driven by W-Cu orbital hybridization and strong spin-orbit coupling, establishing a novel light-metal/heavy-element oxide platform for advanced spintronic applications.
MolMiner is a novel fragment-based, 3D-aware autoregressive model that enables controllable molecular design by generating structures conditioned on twelve physicochemical properties and force-field-relaxed geometries, significantly improving hit rates for targeted property windows without requiring auxiliary loss functions.
By integrating isotopically purified silicon carbide spin defects into a p-i-n diode and utilizing electrical bias to deplete both electrical and magnetic noise sources, researchers achieved record-breaking Hahn echo coherence times exceeding 100 seconds for individual electronic and nuclear spins.