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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 stoichiometric (111)-textured SrTiO3 thin films with high crystalline quality and sub-nanometer roughness can be successfully grown via rf magnetron sputtering on Pt(111)/Al2O3 substrates, particularly when the underlying platinum template is deposited at elevated temperatures to ensure highly ordered epitaxy.
This paper presents a unified multi-scale machine learning framework that successfully integrates configurational and structural disorder to accurately predict the thermodynamic properties and phase transitions of complex magnetic alloys, such as Fe-Co-C systems.
This paper demonstrates that non-Hermitian control of an antiferromagnetic insulator/nonmagnetic metal junction via sublattice-dependent damping and spin-orbit torque enables helicity-selective absorption enhancement and linewidth narrowing near the stability threshold, offering a key principle for tunable sub-THz/THz devices.
This paper introduces a nonempirical semilocal exchange functional that incorporates the exact-exchange condition of the hydrogen atom via a GP93 enhancement factor, successfully recovering the correct tail to support bound Rydberg-like states and improve ionization energies for one-electron-like systems while maintaining stability through a kinetic-energy-density switch.
This study demonstrates that applying pressure to the van der Waals insulator CrBr3 induces a structural transition from a rhombohedral to an AA-stacked trigonal phase, which directly causes the suppression of ferromagnetism due to the emergence of antiferromagnetically coupled chromium moments.
This paper reports experimental evidence of a quantum Hall valley nematic phase in Pb1-xSnxSe quantum wells, demonstrating both spontaneous and explicit SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking that offers fundamental insights into many-body physics within an SU(3) system.
This paper introduces VASP Agent, a coding-agent framework that integrates domain skills, deterministic tools, and scientific guardrails to autonomously execute complex, multi-step first-principles VASP calculations with superior parameter accuracy and error recovery compared to existing LLM-based workflows.
This study investigates the high-temperature deformation behavior of a Co-free non-equiatomic CrMnFeNi alloy through combined experimental and computational methods, revealing that the absence of Cobalt enhances high-temperature strength while maintaining a stable FCC phase and balanced stacking fault energies to promote strain hardening and ductility.
This paper proposes that charge disproportionation driven by Hund's physics in the negative charge transfer gap regime of the molecular orbital crystal SrCoO enables the coexistence of metallicity, polarity, and antiferromagnetism, offering a unified framework for understanding polar antiferromagnetic metals in double-layer Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite oxides.
This paper reports the observation of room-temperature antiferromagnetic resonance in bulk tetragonal NaMnAs, identifying a 7 meV magnon mode at zero field and estimating a relatively large single-ion anisotropy of 0.1–0.2 meV for the Mn ions.