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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 reveals that pressure-induced amorphization in AgSbTe2 is driven by a pronounced displacement instability of the Te sublattice rather than cation vacancies, a process governed by the near-degeneracy of crystalline phases and a counterintuitive kinetic effect where decompression rate determines the final structural state.
This paper introduces a computationally efficient real-time Floquet analysis method that extracts quasi-energies and Floquet states directly from propagated wavefunctions via a reconstructed evolution operator and an unfolding procedure, enabling the practical study of light-induced electronic structures in diverse materials without the need for explicit Floquet Hamiltonian construction.
This paper presents a high-performance Python plugin infrastructure for the VASP code that utilizes a C++ intermediate layer and shared memory buffers to bridge the gap between efficient Fortran-based electronic structure routines and the flexible scientific Python ecosystem, enabling rapid prototyping of novel features like structure relaxation, implicit solvent models, and dispersion corrections.
This study comprehensively investigates the structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of ZrRuAs and HfRuP, identifying them as ductile topological semimetals with strong-coupling conventional superconductivity characterized by transition temperatures of 9.75 K and 9.03 K, respectively.
This study demonstrates that prototypical altermagnets CrSb and MnTe host locally chiral phonon modes that, when symmetry is lowered to lift momentum-space cancellation, couple to their unique spin-split electronic bands via momentum-dependent interactions, establishing these materials as a promising platform for chiral phononics and spin-selective lattice control.
This paper analyzes the high-temperature operation of III-nitride HEMTs by examining the impact on material and device properties, evaluating strategies to mitigate thermal effects, and assessing their stability across various applications while highlighting remaining design challenges.
This study investigates the magnetotransport properties and electronic band structure of the antiferromagnetic compound EuNiAs, revealing complex metamagnetic transitions, hole-dominated multi-band conductivity, and significant magnetic-field-induced changes in the electronic structure that are well-supported by both experimental data and ab-initio calculations.
This paper demonstrates that ultrafast double pump-probe spectroscopy can directly observe and control the anharmonicity of single Raman phonon modes in thermoelectric materials like SnTe and SnSe by measuring frequency shifts as a function of oscillation amplitude, thereby disentangling coherent contributions from quasi-harmonic effects and offering new pathways for material engineering and understanding optically induced phase transitions.
This paper proposes a general strategy for the electrical control of topological magnons in bilayer ferromagnetic insulators, where a vertical electric field modulates interlayer potential and Heisenberg exchanges to tune band topology and nonreciprocal dynamics through competition with intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions.
This study reports the discovery of robust nonreciprocal magnons in layered honeycomb antiferromagnets VPX3 (X=S, Se, Te), revealing their dependence on layer number, interlayer coupling, and magnon interactions, while demonstrating an asymmetric periodic response to the Néel vector that offers a novel method for probing 2D antiferromagnetic order.