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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 demonstrates that CO₂ sorption analysis and controlled annealing can quantify the microporosity of ZIF glasses and reveal a tunable relationship between their structural porosity and photonic properties, enabling the rational design of multifunctional MOF glasses.
This study demonstrates that ultrafast infrared laser pulses can switch ferroelastic domains by first generating transient lattice strain within a nanosecond, which subsequently drives the reorientation of domains several nanoseconds later, establishing a general lattice-mediated pathway for controlling ferroic order with light.
This paper proposes a symmetry-adapted modal analysis method using line-group projection operators to overcome scalability and degeneracy issues in conventional approaches, demonstrating its effectiveness in identifying unique conduction channels and quantifying cross-channel correlations in quasi-one-dimensional systems like double-walled nanotubes.
This paper proposes a rank-selective optical tomography method using finite photon momentum to uniquely identify the spatial rank of higher-wave altermagnetic order, demonstrating through first-principles calculations that this technique can isolate the dominant -wave component in MnTe despite symmetry-breaking effects.
Researchers successfully fabricated a supramolecular diatomic Kagome lattice using a triptycene derivative on a Pb(111) surface and provided direct experimental evidence, supported by calculations, of its topological zigzag edge states governed by Zak phase quantization.
This study combines exhaustive enumeration and density functional theory to map ordered Au-Ag-Cu monolayer alloys, revealing that atomic arrangement rather than composition dictates mixing energy and identifying a dynamically stable, metallic equimolar structure named "Noblene" that exhibits exceptional mechanical properties and a plausible synthesis route via Goldene.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that inelastic neutron scattering can distinguish double-Q magnetic orders from competing single-Q states in centrosymmetric square-lattice compounds by calculating and comparing their dynamical magnetic structure factors.
This paper investigates the effect of hybrid field coupling on anisotropic signal detection in nanoscale infrared spectroscopic imaging by comparing PiF-IR hyperspectra of aligned perylene Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers on nanostructured versus planar gold substrates and interpreting the results using quantum chemical calculations of oriented vibrational oscillators.
This paper demonstrates that size-dependent growth rates, arising from finite facet effects like nucleation barriers and ligand coverages, can amplify infinitesimal seed asymmetries into strongly asymmetric nanocrystal morphologies even when all symmetry-related facets follow identical microscopic growth laws.
This paper introduces the smoothed truncated Coulomb (sTC) potential, a systematically improvable approximation that enables efficient and accurate periodic Hartree--Fock exchange calculations with Gaussian basis sets for both pseudopotential and all-electron systems by smoothing the truncation boundary to facilitate a dual-space integral evaluation algorithm.