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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.
Using scanning magneto-optical pump-probe techniques, this study directly observes and characterizes the transitions between three distinct picosecond magnetoacoustic regimes—coupled magneto-elastic waves, Cherenkov radiation, and non-resonant oscillations—in ferromagnetic waveguides, demonstrating that these regimes are controlled by the detuning between magnon and phonon group velocities.
By combining molecular dynamics simulations with highly charged ion spectroscopy, this study reveals that terphenylthiol-based carbon nanomembranes possess an innate, reactive sub-nanometer porous structure stabilized by atmospheric hydrogen and oxygen groups, overcoming the limitations of traditional characterization methods for these radiation-sensitive materials.
This study reveals that in extruded AZ31B magnesium alloy, the partitioning of plastic work between heat dissipation and energy storage is fundamentally governed by the active deformation mechanism, with slip-dominated deformation dissipating approximately half the energy as heat while twinning-dominated deformation initially stores most energy to drive rapid strain hardening and early localization.
This paper proposes that ligand shifts in magnetic materials contribute an additional term to the symmetric Heisenberg exchange constant, which introduces a spin-density derivative into the energy density, thereby modifying the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, spin wave dispersion, and the mechanism of polarization in multiferroics.
This paper introduces SlaKoNet-VQD, a universal workflow that combines a deep learning-based Slater-Koster Hamiltonian generator with variational quantum algorithms to enable efficient, high-throughput band-structure calculations and correlated electron modeling on near-term quantum hardware.
This paper presents an Autonomous Scientific Knowledge Generation Framework that transforms unstructured scientific literature into a unified, AI-ready knowledge base through an integrated workflow of ontology-guided acquisition, hybrid extraction, and semantic harmonization, successfully demonstrated on electro-optic materials to enable scalable, closed-loop scientific discovery.
This review surveys methodologies for mapping sub-angstrom atomic reconstruction in moiré superlattices, with a primary focus on Bragg interferometry as a powerful dark-field technique for measuring interlayer displacement and strain in twisted 2D materials while addressing the challenges of dynamical scattering and phase interpretation.
This paper introduces the Precursor Genome, a FAIR-compliant dataset of 1,035 autonomously generated solid-state reactions with fully traceable experimental metadata and validated X-ray diffraction outcomes, designed to enable data-driven and machine-learning approaches in synthesis science.
This paper reports the discovery of Mo4PtGa17, a noncentrosymmetric itinerant d-electron superconductor that exhibits heavy-fermion-like behavior and enhanced ferromagnetic spin fluctuations driven by geometrical frustration in its breathing-pyrochlore lattice, thereby establishing a novel route to heavy-fermion-like superconductivity in d-electron materials.
This paper predicts a fourth-order optoelectronic response in noncentrosymmetric 2D materials like monolayer WTe, where a circular photogalvanic effect induces an internal electric field that drives a nonlinear Hall effect via the Berry curvature dipole, resulting in a gate-tunable transverse photovoltage that scales with the fourth power of the optical field and can be significantly amplified by oblique illumination.