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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 through density functional theory calculations that a tensile-strained pentagonal PdTe2 monolayer acts as a highly efficient, tunable 2D photocatalyst for sustainable solar-driven hydrogen production, achieving a 20.40% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency at neutral pH by optimally straddling water redox potentials and minimizing reaction overpotentials.
This study demonstrates that ZnO/MgZnO quantum wells can host intersubband polarons with unprecedented ultrastrong coupling strengths, reaching up to 1.5 times the LO-phonon frequency and enabling a regime where the upper polaron branch frequency is three times that of the bare intersubband transition.
This study combines high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and first-principles calculations to systematically identify five types of native atomic defects in the type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe2, revealing how synthesis conditions influence defect formation and how these defects can be manipulated to tune the material's electronic and topological properties.
This study characterizes the hexagonal, two-sublayer structure and unique electronic properties of a newly discovered AlSe surface alloy on Al (111), highlighting its potential as a large-scale, atomically flat interface with a wide band gap for two-dimensional material applications.
This paper introduces the spin dissymmetry factor as a local measure of spin-selectivity in optical transitions and demonstrates its application in designing a three-fold symmetric metasurface cavity that maximizes spin-selective radiative coupling while distinguishing between spin and chirality in near- and far-field responses.
Inspired by recent developments in electron chirality, this paper bridges condensed matter, quantum chemistry, and particle physics by deriving the non-relativistic limits of Dirac bilinears to identify overlooked microscopic physical quantities and their conjugate electromagnetic fields, thereby enabling the *ab initio* quantification of chirality and axiality in low-symmetry materials for electromagnetic control.
This molecular dynamics study demonstrates that the creep resistance of MoNbTaW refractory high-entropy alloys is significantly enhanced by increasing grain size and introducing local chemical order, as both factors strengthen grain boundaries and suppress grain-boundary-dominated deformation mechanisms.
This study introduces a novel phenothiazine-based self-assembled monolayer with thiophene head groups (Th-2EPT) that optimizes interfacial coordination and lattice matching in tin perovskite solar cells, enabling a record power conversion efficiency of 8.2% that surpasses traditional PEDOT-based devices.
This paper presents a self-consistent microscopic theory of charge density waves that explains the thermal depinning crossover and subsequent first-order phase transition in (TaSe)I by accounting for thermal phason fluctuations, while simultaneously revealing a distinct crossover in amplitudon damping that resolves previously unexplained experimental observations.
Far-infrared magnetospectroscopy of HgTe quantum wells reveals that the anticrossing of zero-mode Landau levels is driven by intrinsic many-particle electron-electron interactions rather than single-particle inversion asymmetries, a mechanism applicable to all crystallographic orientations.