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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 demonstrates that vacancies in altermagnets generically induce anisotropic magnetic textures whose structure encodes the underlying symmetry, providing a direct route to detect altermagnetic order through locally resolved probes in both classical and quantum regimes.
This review examines how optically pumped magnetometers and nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond serve as transformative quantum sensors that overcome the limitations of conventional techniques to enable high-sensitivity, high-resolution, and real-time analysis in chemistry and materials science.
This paper introduces a novel platform for creating Moiré quantum dots by crossing 1D MoS₂ nanoribbons at various angles, demonstrating angle- and size-dependent tunability of exciton physics, including enhanced emission at specific commensurate angles and reduced exciton energy in smaller Moiré areas.
This paper presents a DNA-origami approach to control the binding configurations of tetrahedral patchy particles, enabling the directed self-assembly of diverse open lattice structures—including diamond, clathrate, and triple diamond phases—that exhibit visible structural color due to their large unit cells.
This study demonstrates that perpendicular magnetic anisotropy effectively enhances the macrospin-to-vortex transition probability in Co-based artificial spin-vortex ice, a finding validated by both micromagnetic simulations and experimental measurements on multilayer stacks, thereby offering a tunable parameter for optimizing physical reservoir computing systems.
This study investigates the thermodynamic stability and ionic transport of the post-spinel CaVO cathode using computational methods, revealing that strong calcium-vacancy ordering and two-phase regions kinetically limit its practical electrochemical capacity to roughly half the theoretical value at room temperature while proposing doping and size reduction as strategies to enhance performance.
This paper demonstrates that the significant variability in Schottky barrier heights observed in 2D semiconductor contacts arises from nonlocal electrostatic effects caused by defects near the contact edge, rather than being solely a local interface property.
This study resolves theoretical discrepancies regarding the stability of monoclinic Bismuth Vanadate by demonstrating that an accurate treatment of electronic localization via exact exchange is essential to capture the charge-transfer-driven symmetry breaking, which in turn enables precise predictions of its optoelectronic properties and establishes a direct link between exchange-correlation functionals, chemical bonding, and structural stability.
This study evaluates the capabilities of foundation machine-learning interatomic potentials in modeling strongly correlated perovskite oxides, finding that while they successfully capture simple geometric orders like those in NdNiO3, they fail to reproduce symmetry-breaking vector orders in LaMnO3 and remain entirely unable to simulate purely local spin-state crossovers in LaCoO3.
This paper resolves the coexistence of bright and dark excitons in the magnetic van der Waals semiconductor CrSBr by demonstrating that their optical brightness is determined by band-coherent, symmetry-adapted interference rules between sublattice-symmetric and sublattice-antisymmetric superpositions of ligand-field-like Bloch transitions, rather than by the traditional Frenkel or Wannier-Mott classifications.