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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 demonstrates that finite spin currents can be induced in conventional collinear antiferromagnets and higher-order altermagnets by using electric fields and strain to drive symmetry-lowering phase transitions into uncompensated or d-wave altermagnetic states, achieving high charge-to-spin conversion ratios validated by first-principles calculations on representative materials.
This study demonstrates that in multilayer SnS, the deformation potential dominates over the inverse piezoelectric effect to drive a polar-axis expansion, establishing stacking-engineered SnS as a platform for ultrafast optomechanical transduction through the correlation of polarization-resolved microscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, and first-principles calculations.
This study establishes a high-throughput computational framework that integrates density functional theory, special quasirandom structures, and supervised machine learning to efficiently predict the thermodynamic stability and stabilization temperatures of thousands of potential NaCl-type entropy-stabilized oxide compositions, thereby guiding the experimental discovery of new multicomponent oxides.
Using inelastic neutron scattering and spin-dynamics simulations, this study reveals that antisite mixing in MnSb2Te4 creates disordered magnetic sublattices where linear Mn-Te-Mn bonds mediate strong defect-induced antiferromagnetic coupling, resulting in a large-gap optical magnon.
This study identifies naturally occurring talc as a promising van der Waals host for erbium-doped quantum emitters, demonstrating through first-principles calculations that substitutional Er ions are thermodynamically stable and emit telecom C-band photons at 1.55 m with a suitable crystal-field splitting for integrated quantum photonics.
This paper presents a first-principles theoretical formalism for evaluating configuration-dependent electronic friction memory kernels, demonstrating that incorporating these memory effects in nonadiabatic dynamics at metal surfaces significantly alters energy exchange mechanisms and eliminates the need for simplified Markovian friction coefficients.
This paper establishes a unified electronic-structure framework demonstrating that the strong electron-phonon coupling and ion migration in metal halide perovskites originate from a common chemical bonding mechanism, where low-frequency shearing modes drive halide migration and high-frequency stretching modes govern carrier scattering, both of which can be predicted and optimized using a novel orbital hybridization descriptor.
This paper proposes that spin-current vorticity drives a dissipationless photovoltaic spin Hall effect under dc electric fields, where the interplay with Berry curvature and quantum metric generates distinct time-reversal even and odd spin currents that can be switched by light helicity or Néel-vector reversal, respectively, establishing spin-current vorticity as a unifying concept for nonlinear spin Hall transport.
This paper proposes that cluster-assembled V4S9X4 monolayers overcome the conventional trade-off between robust ferromagnetism and giant exciton binding by utilizing a hierarchical design where intra-cluster localization supports strong electron-hole interactions and magnetic moments while inter-cluster coupling mediates room-temperature ferromagnetism, enabling tunable ultrafast optical responses and long-lived spin information storage for next-generation spin-photonic devices.
This study derives a thermodynamically compatible, non-Fourier heat conduction model for heterogeneous materials through spatial volume averaging, demonstrating that their inherent over-diffusive behavior and size-dependent transport arise from distinct microstructural properties and finite-sample boundaries, a finding validated against diverse experimental data.