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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 C2DTD, a compact, interpretable, and physics-informed topological descriptor that effectively captures multi-scale structural features of 2D carbon networks to enable robust, data-efficient machine learning predictions and deep physical insights into their energy landscapes.
The paper introduces AQVolt26, a high-temperature rSCAN dataset of over 320,000 lithium halide configurations, demonstrating that while foundational machine learning potentials provide a strong baseline, their reliability for dynamic screening of solid-state electrolytes critically depends on augmentation with targeted high-temperature data rather than general near-equilibrium relaxation information.
PolyJarvis is an LLM-driven autonomous agent that integrates with the RadonPy platform to execute end-to-end all-atom molecular dynamics simulations for polymers, successfully predicting key properties like density and bulk modulus with high accuracy while demonstrating that LLM agents can match expert-level performance in polymer simulation workflows.
This study employs a machine learning-driven statistical sampling approach to calculate the temperature-dependent Raman spectra of crystalline 2H-MoS2, successfully reproducing experimental trends in frequency shifts and linewidths caused by thermal and anharmonic effects to establish a robust framework for future investigations of amorphous molybdenum sulfides.
This paper reports the observation of a continuous transition from low-field Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations to high-field log-periodic oscillations in the Dirac material HfTe5, demonstrating how vacuum polarization and many-body screening drive the evolution from single-particle Landau quantization to an interaction-induced, discrete scale-invariant energy spectrum.
This paper proposes a second-order nonlinear magnetic orbital Hall effect induced by spin-orbit coupling in antiferromagnets, which offers a unified solution for electrical readout of 180° switching in compensated antiferromagnets and electrical writing of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnets via out-of-plane orbital torque.
This study reports the first investigation of intrinsic thermal conductivity in layered conductive metal-organic framework (LCMOF) single crystals, revealing ultralow thermal conductivities (0.075–0.194 W m⁻¹ K⁻¹) along the π–π stacking direction caused by structural disorder and incommensurate modulation, which effectively decouples thermal transport from the high electrical conductivity observed in these materials.
MatClaw is an autonomous, code-first LLM agent that executes end-to-end materials discovery workflows on HPC clusters by directly writing Python code and utilizing a four-layer memory system, though it requires human-guided interventions to compensate for missing tacit domain knowledge.
This paper demonstrates that in chiral crystals, mechanical angular momentum (MAM) of phonons can be converted into electronic degrees of freedom via a second-order perturbative Hamiltonian, thereby directly influencing electronic orbital and spin polarizations alongside the previously established crystal angular momentum (CAM) coupling.
Using ab initio molecular dynamics and free-energy calculations at 500 GPa, this study reveals that while noble gases are insoluble in solid metallic hydrogen due to unfavorable electronic and vibrational contributions, heavier noble gases (Ar, Kr, Xe) become soluble in the liquid phase, offering a microscopic mechanism for noble-gas fractionation in giant-planet interiors.