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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 mini-review synthesizes recent advancements in understanding the layer-dependent vibrational, excitonic, and magneto-optical properties of the air-stable, A-type antiferromagnetic semiconductor CrSBr, highlighting its potential for applications in spintronic and quantum photonic technologies.
This paper demonstrates that encapsulating hydrogen-capped polyynes within electrically insulating ultrathin boron nitride nanotubes enables the creation of near-ideal carbyne chains, overcoming previous limitations of endgroup effects and host-guest coupling to reveal intrinsic vibrational and electronic properties for the first time.
This study evaluates the reliability of universal machine learning force fields (MACE, MACE-OFF, and UMA) for predicting crystal structures of high-energy molecular systems, demonstrating that while direct application shows high success, combining these models with classical force-field pre-relaxation systematically reduces failures and identifies MACE-OFF as the optimal choice for balancing structural fidelity and computational efficiency.
This study proposes a versatile route for dynamically switching altermagnetism on demand in layered van der Waals MnX(tdz) metal-organic frameworks by utilizing hydrostatic pressure to induce a spin-crossover transition that reconfigures the magnetic symmetry and toggles the characteristic momentum-space spin splitting.
Raman spectroscopy reveals a non-reciprocal, first-order magnetic phase transition in CaRuO driven by an out-of-plane magnetic field, characterized by the emergence of a magnetic mode and modified phonon-Higgs coupling while preserving the in-plane dipolar antiferromagnetic order.
This paper presents a first-principles real-time approach incorporating finite-temperature electron-phonon effects to demonstrate that strong, crystal-momentum-dependent quasiparticle renormalization drives the nontrivial temperature dependence of second-harmonic generation in few-layer MoS, thereby explaining the experimentally observed intensity increase in monolayers.
Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, this study reveals that the in-gap state in 1T-TaS2 undergoes an abrupt, hysteretic collapse and recovery across the first-order transition between commensurate and nearly commensurate charge density wave phases, providing direct spectroscopic evidence of the transition's first-order nature and its intimate link to electronic reconstruction.
The paper predicts a semiclassical nonlinear topological orbital response in antiferromagnetic skyrmions, where spin-dependent emergent Lorentz forces generate electric-field-quadratic orbital currents and accumulations that enable rectified detection distinct from quantum-regime effects.
This paper presents a new analytical framework for the capacitance of undoped thin-film diodes that accounts for injected charge carriers and electrode effects, enabling the extraction of built-in voltage and validated through both numerical simulations and experimental data on organic solar cells.
Using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, researchers discovered a novel regime of electron-phonon coupling in La2-xSrxCuO4 characterized by the selective excitation of even-order high-frequency phonons that vanish with doping, suggesting the presence of locally paired quasiparticles that deviate from the standard Franck-Condon picture.