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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 the orbital-charge conversion in thin films is governed by a thickness-driven structural phase transition, where the metallic phase below a critical thickness of exhibits a dominant orbital Rashba–Edelstein response, while the semiconducting phase above this threshold does not.
This study demonstrates that diffusion quantum Monte Carlo benchmarks reveal significant many-body effects in bilayer InSe that cause DFT to substantially underestimate local stacking-energy corrugation, thereby challenging the accuracy of standard DFT-based models for predicting structural and electronic properties in twisted layered materials.
This study employs first-principles density functional theory to investigate native point defects in CaO, revealing that oxygen and calcium vacancies dominate under O-poor and O-rich conditions respectively, form thermodynamically stable complexes, and account for experimentally observed optical absorption and emission peaks.
This study utilizes ultrafast x-ray diffraction to quantitatively demonstrate that circularly polarized terahertz pulses drive oxygen ions in strontium titanate to carry approximately 90% of the phonon angular momentum, thereby resolving the mechanism behind induced magnetism in nonmagnetic materials.
This study reports the first successful fabrication of thick (100–300 µm), well-adhered NiTi shape memory alloy coatings on mild steel using High Velocity Air Fuel (HVAF) spraying, demonstrating that despite microstructural inhomogeneities, the annealed coatings exhibit functional martensitic phase transformations and shape memory effects.
Using soft-to-hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, this study reveals that hydrogen chemisorption on nanoporous graphene and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes is predominantly localized on the surface, forming a thin sp3-rich overlayer with limited penetration into the bulk.
This study demonstrates that ultra-high oscillator strength excitons in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr self-hybridize with photonic modes to enable anisotropic coherent polariton transport exclusively along the crystallographic a-axis, a phenomenon characterized with nanometric resolution using cathodoluminescence spectroscopy.
This study identifies MnTe as an altermagnet by combining experimental Raman scattering and theoretical calculations to reveal momentum-dependent chiral magnon bands with a distinctive plaid-like spin-splitting structure.
This paper identifies a novel mixed-parity altermagnetic state in the rare-earth tetraboride , where non-coplanar spin chirality drives a unique coexistence of odd-parity in-plane and even-parity out-of-plane spin textures, enabling distinct non-relativistic transport phenomena without relying on spin-orbit coupling.
This paper presents a novel experimental setup that integrates coherent two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy with confocal back focal plane microscopy to enable angle-resolved, spatially co-localized ultrafast studies of excitons and exciton-polaritons in 2D materials like WSe monolayers.