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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 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.
This paper proposes a symmetry-enforced third-order nonlinear thermal Hall effect driven by Berry curvature in altermagnets, demonstrating that materials with out-of-plane Néel order (such as KV2Se2O and MnF2) exhibit a dominant third-order response with -periodic dependence, providing a novel diagnostic tool for identifying altermagnetism and determining Néel vector orientation.
This paper reports the first experimental realization of EuIn2Sb2 via molecular beam epitaxy, revealing a unique In-on-In trilayer structure and confirming its potential as a strong spin-orbit coupled axion and higher-order topological insulator candidate.
Using DFT+DMFT with optimized double-counting corrections to match experimental spectra, this study reveals that NiS and NiSe possess a smaller charge-transfer energy than previously thought, leading to significant ligand-to-Ni charge transfer, reduced Ni local moments, and a clarified evolution of low-energy electronic structures across the NiSSe series driven by the interplay between Ni upper Hubbard bands and antibonding chalcogen-dimer states.
This paper proves that while Hopf topology allows for a single exactly flat band with strictly finite-range hopping, achieving a fully flat two-band spectrum in a gapped, Hermitian system necessarily requires sacrificing strict locality or the energy gap, forcing the non-trivial topology to manifest as either partner-band dispersion or exponentially decaying, infinitely supported hopping tails.
This study demonstrates that combining linker functionalization (particularly with COOH groups) and pH tuning effectively narrows MOF-5's band gap into the visible range while optimizing reduction energetics, with Sr- and Ba-based nodes offering the most favorable conditions for efficient solar-driven CO reduction.