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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 paper reports the development of an X-ray detected ferromagnetic resonance (XFMR) spectrometer featuring an out-of-vacuum photodetector that facilitates easy detector replacement and enables versatile measurements, including XEOL spectroscopy and XFMR signal detection, thereby expanding possibilities for advanced applications like XFMR microscopy.
This study employs first-principles calculations to demonstrate that Janus MoSSe/WSSe heterobilayers function as highly efficient (17.1% STH) selective photocatalysts for overall water splitting by leveraging the synergy between intrinsic interfacial dipoles and metal chemical potential differences to suppress carrier recombination.
This paper demonstrates the optimization of BiSe/buffer/[Pt/CoB/Ru] heterostructure growth via molecular beam epitaxy and sputtering, revealing that a critical buffer layer thickness is essential to suppress BiSe terracing and achieve uniform perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with well-defined domains suitable for spintronics applications.
This paper presents a self-driving microscopy framework that integrates dual-novelty deep kernel learning for adaptive data acquisition and a dual variational autoencoder for representation learning to autonomously map structure-property relationships in halide perovskite films, revealing distinct hysteresis behaviors linked to specific nanoscale structural motifs.
This paper demonstrates the experimental realization of a reconfigurable synthetic magnonic lattice in a single yttrium iron garnet device by using Floquet engineering to couple multimode resonances, thereby enabling scalable, high-dimensional magnonic dynamics without increasing the physical footprint.
This study demonstrates the viability of using nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds to probe nanoscale electronic phase segregation and critical magnetic fluctuations in Mn-doped CaFeO across its weak ferromagnetic transition.
This study presents a family of non-stoichiometric (N×H)-polytypes with La2WO6-related stoichiometry, formulates their construction rules, and uses DFT calculations to identify the hypothetical La2WO6.oP36 as the ground state and the experimentally accessible La2WO6.mC72 as a low-energy candidate lying just above the ternary convex hull.
This paper introduces a minimal model of a topological random binary alloy to demonstrate how dopant-centric chiral current loops can engineer exotic topological domains and trigger phase transitions, or unexpectedly stabilize metallic phases via inter-domain edge modes, depending on the interplay between host and dopant properties.
By mapping experimental crystal structures into a time-evolving similarity space, this study reveals that most new discoveries follow established structural patterns rather than exploring new ones, and demonstrates that current computational materials proposals often deviate significantly from these experimentally validated "structural basins," suggesting a need to prioritize proximity to known chemistry for synthesizability.
This paper demonstrates that kiloelectronvolt helium diffraction through freestanding single-layer graphene enters a strong-coupling regime where lattice distortions cause significant phase spreads that cannot be described by the traditional perturbative Debye-Waller factor, a phenomenon distinct from the weak-coupling behavior observed in atomic hydrogen diffraction.