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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 synthesizes and characterizes 32 ultrahigh-entropy compositionally complex ceramics (16–19 components), revealing that they exhibit enhanced pyrochlore ordering despite high lattice distortion and display distinct order-disorder transition behaviors dependent on cation valence ratios.
This paper investigates how dynamic scattering of conduction electrons from local moment magnon excitations, in addition to static magnetic order, modifies the surface tunnelling spectrum of an antiferromagnetic dual system by introducing magnon sidebands.
This study utilizes combined extreme ultraviolet and visible-light magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements to resolve the ultrafast, femtosecond-scale spin-reorientation dynamics in ferrimagnetic DyCo thin films, demonstrating that laser excitation can trigger a transient transition of the magnetization from an out-of-plane to an in-plane orientation.
By combining density functional theory with an E(3)-equivariant deep-learning Hamiltonian, this study demonstrates that twist-angle engineering in SrTiO3 bilayers systematically flattens valence bands and significantly enhances nonlinear optical responses, such as second-harmonic generation and shift currents, while leaving dielectric and spin Hall properties largely unchanged.
First-principles calculations reveal that metal substrates like Cu(111) and Al(111) promote the formation of Stone-Wales defects in graphene by lowering activation energy, while the remaining high restoration energy ensures these defects remain stable and do not self-heal.
This paper establishes static homogeneous strain as a symmetry-allowed conjugate field for controlling ferroaxial domains by formulating a hierarchy of strain-derived piezoaxial fields and validating the predicted scaling laws and angular dependencies through first-principles calculations on NaBaMg(PO).
This study demonstrates that terahertz-driven four-wave mixing spectroscopy can probe low-frequency vibrational modes and structural evolution in PbO-silicate glasses, revealing a collective lone-pair reorganization at medium-range scales near 44 mol% PbO that is invisible to conventional linear spectroscopies.
This study develops a machine-learning interatomic potential framework combining GAP and MACE models with lattice-dynamical and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to provide a more accurate and internally consistent description of phonon-mediated thermal transport and grain boundary resistance in nanocrystalline silicon compared to classical potentials.
This paper presents and benchmarks the implementation of both direct (ScaLAPACK/ELPA) and iterative (SLEPc) solvers for Hermitian and pseudo-Hermitian Bethe-Salpeter equations within the Yambo code, demonstrating the feasibility of handling dense matrices of up to elements on CPU and GPU clusters.
The paper introduces QR-code, an open-source program that utilizes first-principles calculations from Quantum ESPRESSO and EPW to compute single-resonance, double-resonance, and defect-induced Raman spectra, providing tutorials and validation through graphene examples.