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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 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.
This paper demonstrates that embedding molecular spin qubits, specifically cobaltocene, within the van der Waals gaps of two-dimensional SnS2 and CdPS3 crystals stabilizes their quantum states by reorganizing the local energy landscape and slowing spin-lattice relaxation by over two orders of magnitude, thereby enabling the formation of ordered superlattices for functional quantum devices.
This paper introduces RAFT-DVC, a resolution-aware machine learning framework for Digital Volume Correlation that utilizes a family of solvers with varying downsampling factors to achieve high-accuracy, dense 3D displacement measurements across diverse texture and displacement regimes, while also correcting coordinate-order inconsistencies to improve generalization.
This study combines molecular dynamics simulations and high-speed in situ transmission electron microscopy to reveal that while self-interstitial clusters in irradiated nickel thermodynamically favor mobile perfect loops over sessile Frank loops for sizes N ≥ 14, their actual migration is governed by a non-rigid relay mechanism and hindered by kinetic barriers that create a heterogeneous energy landscape of mobile and pinned states.