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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 reveals that exciton multipolarity in van der Waals heterostructures serves as a design principle for controlling photoinduced interlayer breathing modes, where dipolar excitons generate coherent phonons while quadrupolar excitons produce squeezed states, with the ability to switch between these regimes via an external electric field.
By combining density-functional theory calculations with far-infrared measurements to correct the harmonic approximation's failure in capturing soft-mode frequencies, this study experimentally constrained modeling of the Pockels response in KNbO3 and KTN, revealing KTN's superior electro-optic potential as a low-energy alternative to standard technologies.
This paper presents a hierarchical autonomous experimentation framework for scanning probe microscopy that synergistically combines agentic AI for high-level scientific reasoning and strategy selection with deterministic algorithms for precise, reliable physical execution and quantitative analysis.
This study employs high-throughput combinatorial thin-film synthesis and multimodal characterization to map the structure-property relationships of (Gd/Ho/Er/Dy)2Zr2O7 ceramics, revealing that the largest experimentally observed lattice parameter, rather than cation size disorder or equiatomic composition, correlates with a pronounced minimum in thermal conductivity.
This paper investigates topological magnons on an anisotropic square-hexagon-octagon lattice derived from a biphenylene network, proposing a DMI-free mechanism for type-II Dirac points and Dirac nodal loops characterized by invariants, while analyzing their topological phase transitions, chiral edge modes, and associated thermal Hall and Einstein-de Haas effects.
This paper presents a defocus phase retrieval method that successfully reconstructs the optical point-spread function of an uncorrected scanning electron microscope by analyzing a focal series of images from gold nanoparticles, thereby enabling experimental aberration quantification at 20 keV.
This paper proposes bicircular Raman spectroscopy as a universal optical probe to identify altermagnetic magnons by detecting their momentum-dependent chirality and enhanced nonlinear light-magnon interactions, thereby distinguishing altermagnets from antiferromagnets regardless of the underlying magnon topology.
This paper demonstrates that artificial intelligence-driven materials discovery is significantly compromised by systematic errors and ambiguities in literature-derived datasets, such as text-figure mismatches and unit inconsistencies, which introduce structured label noise and necessitate improved traceable reporting and curation practices.
This paper introduces a novel, ansatz-free "exciton spatial localizer" that utilizes a Clifford-algebra structure to construct exciton Wannier functions which are simultaneously maximally localized in both electron and hole coordinates, overcoming the fundamental noncommutativity of their position operators and revealing symmetry-enforced quantum geometric dipoles.
This paper demonstrates that coherent infrared phonons can dynamically induce and selectively control distinct nonrelativistic spin-splitting phases in antiferromagnets, such as MnPS, by leveraging the polarization-dependent breaking or preservation of sublattice-connecting symmetries.