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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 review critically evaluates Laser Shock Peening (LSP) as a surface design strategy for mitigating hydrogen embrittlement in high-strength alloys by analyzing the coupled mechanisms of compressive stress, hydrogen transport, and trapping, while identifying key gaps in quantitative performance correlations and proposing mechanism-informed qualification routes.
This paper characterizes the thermal response of an uncoated Protochips Fusion MEMS chip under rapid pulse heating in an in-situ STEM setup, revealing a cooling time constant of 1.80 ms and an average cooling rate of approximately K/s to establish practical thermal limits for high-speed solidification experiments.
This paper demonstrates that coherent phonons in two-dimensional spin-degenerate antiferromagnets can be programmed via pump-field polarization to selectively activate hidden unconventional magnetism, thereby enabling continuous tuning of spin-splitting textures and thermoelectric spin currents without altering the underlying collinear Néel order.
Using qPlus atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy on single-crystal Pb(111), this study experimentally demonstrates that electrostatic screening in a type-I superconductor remains governed by the Thomas-Fermi length rather than the London penetration depth, thereby contradicting J. E. Hirsch's alternative theory and confirming that the longitudinal response is unchanged upon entering the superconducting state.
This study investigates the magnetic properties of single-crystal Kondo lattice materials CeRhGe and CeIrGe, revealing that while CeRhGe exhibits ferromagnetic ordering similar to CeCoGe, CeIrGe displays a complex ferrimagnetic ground state characterized by multiple magnetic transitions and metamagnetic plateaus.
This study reveals that while alloying in MoS2xSe2(1-x) continuously tunes optical properties, it causes a severe, disorder-driven collapse in carrier transport at intermediate compositions due to random chalcogen substitution creating scattering barriers and trapping sites, highlighting a critical limitation overlooked by conventional equilibrium probes.
This study demonstrates that polymorph engineering can be used to synthesize stable, epitaxial films of a previously overlooked layered GdAlGe polymorph exhibiting anisotropic ferromagnetism and anomalous Hall effects, offering a blueprint for designing 2D rare-earth magnets compatible with semiconductor technology.
This study demonstrates that pulse-burst excitation breaks time-dose reciprocity in mixed-halide perovskites by enabling the control of distinct metastable states through photon timing, thereby offering a new framework for optical memory and neuromorphic applications.
This study demonstrates that the static and dynamic properties of rough hard-particle fluids across a wide range of densities can be quantitatively predicted by mapping them to equivalent hard-disk systems using an analytically derived effective particle size.
This study demonstrates that the Beyond Quasi-Harmonic (BQH) method, when combined with electronic heat-capacity corrections, accurately predicts the high-temperature molar heat capacity of zirconium carbide by fully capturing anharmonic vibrational effects that are missed by standard quasi-harmonic approximations.