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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 stacking Cr2Ge2Te6 with WTe2 in van der Waals heterobilayers significantly enhances ferromagnetism, including a more than twofold increase in Curie temperature, through strain-mediated lattice reconstruction and interfacial charge transfer.
This paper introduces a compact, efficient analytic operator-based approximation derived from full 2-body solutions that overcomes the limitations of traditional dipole models and computationally expensive full-field methods for describing interactions in magnetically soft many-body systems.
This paper introduces a universal broadband square-pulsed thermometry method that enables rapid, simultaneous quantification of solid-liquid interfacial thermal conductance and nanoscale liquid-film thickness across diverse material combinations, revealing significant variations driven by vibrational mismatch, wettability, and surface conditions.
This paper introduces and validates a variable-spot-size, multi-frequency square-pulsed source (SPS) method that enables the simultaneous, accurate determination of anisotropic thermal conductivities, heat capacities, and interfacial thermal conductance in complex multilayered thin films across a wide temperature range.
This paper investigates the three-dimensional deformation and bifurcation behavior of inextensible ferromagnetic elastic rods under combined tension, twisting, and magnetic fields by formulating a reduced Hamiltonian system that reveals distinct post-buckling characteristics and localized modes differing between soft and hard ferromagnetic materials.
This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a non-Hermitian approach using an electric circuit platform to reshape high-order Landau modes via simultaneous magnetic, electric, and imaginary momentum fields, achieving multi-frequency single-peak localization for potential applications in information processing.
This paper resolves the contradiction between step bunching and step meandering in unstable step-flow growth by demonstrating that a (2+1)D Vicinal Cellular Automaton model and a continuum differential-difference PDE description can both capture their simultaneous coexistence and produce similar surface patterns when linked through a properly shaped potential energy landscape.
This paper presents a highly transferable machine learning interatomic potential for Ge-rich GeSbTe alloys, which was used to simulate nanosecond-scale crystallization at 600 K, revealing that kinetic effects during memory set operations lead to metastable phase separation into Sb-doped cubic GeTe and amorphous GeSb/Ge rather than thermodynamically stable products.
This study demonstrates that (101)-oriented RuO₂ thin films, a candidate altermagnet, exhibit giant room-temperature third-order electrical transport responses driven by simultaneous T-odd and T-even quantum geometric quantities, providing a robust method to detect Néel order and a versatile platform for quantum spintronic devices.
This paper presents a general analytical framework and open-source numerical tools to model light propagation and polariton behavior in planar heterostructures composed of an arbitrary number of rotated 3D anisotropic layers and 2D conductive sheets, thereby establishing a foundational theory for twist-engineered nano-optics.