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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 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.
This paper presents a KMC-FMQA framework that combines kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with Ising-machine-based optimization to efficiently identify dopant configurations in solid electrolytes, successfully demonstrating an order-of-magnitude improvement in ionic conductivity for yttria-stabilized zirconia compared to random and experimental benchmarks.
Using time- and angle-resolved extreme ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, this study identifies the normal phase of TiSe as a phonon-induced pseudogap phase driven by strong charge density wave fluctuations, distinguishing it from the weaker electron-phonon coupling regimes observed in HfTe and ZrTe.
This study presents a high-throughput first-principles screening identifying nearly 440 non-magnetic semiconductors that exhibit ultrafast, light-induced magnetization under linearly polarized femtosecond pulses, demonstrating that this phenomenon is widespread and governed by specific crystal field and orbital characteristics.
This study challenges the widely accepted claim that Yb³⁺-doped CsPbCl₃ exhibits quantum cutting by demonstrating through photon-correlation analysis that the material displays photon anti-bunching rather than the expected bunching, a phenomenon attributed to Auger quenching.
This study demonstrates that side-chain engineering in alkoxy-functionalized MOF-5 enables continuous, entropy-driven tuning of macroscopic thermal expansion from positive to negative regimes by modulating side-chain length and concentration to balance conformational and vibrational entropic effects.