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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 reports the observation of a phonon thermal Hall effect in crystalline quartz but not in amorphous silica, attributing the phenomenon to the misalignment of energy and entropy currents caused by magnetic-field-induced transverse forces on lattice drift, a mechanism confirmed by the effect's dependence on crystal quality rather than disorder.
This study utilizes advanced first-principles calculations to demonstrate that lead-free cubic BaMA (M = P, As, Sb, Bi; A = Cl, Br, I) antiperovskite derivatives are dynamically stable, direct-gap semiconductors with favorable optoelectronic properties and theoretical efficiencies of 19–32%, positioning them as promising eco-friendly alternatives to lead-based perovskites for next-generation devices.
This paper demonstrates that twisted bilayer 1T-TaS forms tunable Mott-trivial mosaic superlattices, where spatially competing many-body and single-particle gaps create a controllable pattern of magnetic and non-magnetic insulating regions that can be manipulated via interlayer bias.
This paper reports the synthesis of the layered compound CsCrSO, which uniquely exhibits room-temperature d-wave altermagnetism coupled with a Verwey-type metal-to-insulator transition driven by structural distortion and charge ordering, thereby establishing a new platform for spintronic applications.
This study investigates terahertz optical activity in Tm-doped alumoborates, revealing that strong polarization plane rotation near crystal field transitions arises from magnetic and electric dipole contributions to dynamic magnetoelectric susceptibility, with fine spectral structures reflecting local crystal field distortions.
This paper introduces AlloyVAE, a physics-informed conditional variational autoencoder that models the intrinsic probabilistic nature of structure-property relationships in multi-principal element alloys by generating diverse, physically consistent mechanical field realizations from compositional inputs and enabling inverse design for targeted material responses.
This paper introduces an accelerated materials-design workflow that combines effective-Hamiltonian molecular dynamics with a conditional autoencoder surrogate to rapidly map how specific nanoscale dopant distributions in Ba(Zr,Ti)O influence functional hysteresis loops, thereby enabling the identification of optimal motif families for targeted energy-storage and electromechanical performance.
By combining cluster-correlation expansion theory with experimental validation, this study demonstrates that nitrogen-vacancy center decoherence in diamond under dynamical decoupling exhibits a quadratic scaling with pulse number, thereby confirming the superiority of a quantum bath model over traditional semi-classical theories for accurately predicting noise in high-concentration nitrogen spin baths.
This Perspective explores how quantum geometry, arising from interband mixing and wavefunction momentum-space textures, introduces hidden length and time scales that qualitatively alter material responses and influence many-body ground states, while reviewing recent experimental advances and methods to estimate their significance.
This paper demonstrates that electron-phonon scattering, driven by Fermi surface geometry and optical phonon activation, explains the unconventional resistivity scaling and ultra-low resistivity in moderately correlated perovskite oxides like SrMoO, while establishing design principles for discovering new ultra-high conductivity materials.