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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 and theoretically explains the observation of an electron-spin-resonance-driven linear photogalvanic effect in unbiased monolayer graphene and WSe₂/graphene heterostructures, demonstrating that resonant photocurrents generated by spin transitions can serve as a sensitive probe for electron spin resonance in two-dimensional devices.
Extensive laboratory earthquake experiments confirm a comprehensive two-dimensional theory predicting that frictional slip pulses are categorically unstable, intrinsically slow rupture modes that exhibit a transition from decaying to growing behavior across various conditions.
This paper investigates the linear and nonlinear magneto-optical transport in tilted type-I multi-Weyl semimetals using a semiclassical Boltzmann framework, deriving analytical expressions that reveal how orbital magnetic moment corrections generally suppress Berry curvature-induced conductivity while offering distinct experimental signatures of the materials' anisotropic dispersion and higher monopole charges.
This study reports the high-pressure synthesis and ambient-pressure recovery of YFeH, a new ternary superhydride prototype featuring a unique FeH-based framework that remains metastable outside of extreme pressure environments.
This study demonstrates that growing WSe2 on graphene induces persistent compressive strain and layer-dependent charge transfer that pin exciton energies, contrasting with the thickness-dependent shifts observed on SiO2/Si, thereby establishing graphene as an active interface for controlling excitonic properties in scalable van der Waals heterostructures.
This study demonstrates that integrating hierarchical vibrations and rotational dynamics in lightweight cyanide-bridged framework materials induces extreme phonon anharmonicity and scattering, resulting in ultralow lattice thermal conductivity that significantly outperforms existing perovskite-based systems.
This study compares projection-based and slip-gradient methods for estimating geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) densities in crystal plasticity finite element models, revealing that while both align with analytical solutions for single crystals, the projection method underestimates GNDs in polycrystals—a discrepancy effectively resolved by restricting the projection to only active dislocation systems.
This study demonstrates that two-dimensional tellurene, leveraging its inherent chiral atomic structure, generates a gate-tunable, helicity-dependent circular ratchet current at room temperature under terahertz radiation, a phenomenon successfully explained by a microscopic theory based on the Boltzmann kinetic equation.
The paper introduces TRACE, a transition-aware residual control framework that enhances multi-objective materials discovery by LLM agents by tracking specific edit-property transitions to better balance competing objectives, thereby significantly improving hit rates over state-of-the-art baselines.
This paper establishes a gauge-invariant theory demonstrating that two-magnon Raman circular dichroism serves as a spectroscopic probe for higher-order magnon quantum geometry, revealing that the dichroic response in field-polarized Kitaev magnets is governed by generalized geometric tensors beyond the standard quantum metric and Berry curvature.