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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 reveals that the large, bias-tunable magnetoresistance in CrSBr-based van der Waals heterostructures arises from spin-dependent interlayer hybridization that linearly modulates the barrier band-edge offset with magnetization angle, rather than from electrode spin polarization as described by the Jullière model.
This study combines rheology and X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy to reveal that the protracted stress relaxation and loss of recoverable strain in a sheared nanocolloidal glass are driven by spatially heterogeneous, banded backflow dynamics, whereas subsequent strain recovery proceeds via uniform, purely affine motion.
This review examines the transition from manual to automated robotic fabrication of 2D materials and heterostructures, highlighting recent advances in instrumentation, processing, and AI that are essential for overcoming the complexity limits of current methods and enabling the precise, high-throughput creation of sophisticated many-layer systems.
This study utilizes first-principles and tight-binding simulations to demonstrate that a SiO substrate induces a complex, anisotropic spin texture in graphene—ranging from Rashba-type helical structures to symmetry-broken configurations—resulting in a spin lifetime anisotropy between 0.5 and 1 that aligns with experimental observations and exceeds the predictions of standard Rashba models.
This paper demonstrates that molecular aggregation can be strategically engineered as a design parameter rather than a parasitic effect to achieve room-temperature strong coupling with high coupling energies (up to 324 meV) in solution-processed, low-quality-factor metallic microcavities, thereby overcoming the traditional requirement for highly ordered excitonic media and high-quality optical resonators.
This paper presents a scalable, lithography-free method for creating two-dimensional electron gases in SrTiO by using direct atomic layer processing to deposit TiO patterns that guide Al deposition, thereby inducing oxygen vacancies to form conductive channels with high carrier densities and electrostatic tunability without post-growth microfabrication.
This study demonstrates that foundation machine-learned force fields pretrained on broad datasets with incorrect phase energetics can be efficiently corrected for specific correlated materials like NiO through compact target-level fine-tuning, enabling a practical multi-fidelity strategy that prioritizes broad pretraining followed by application-specific adjustment.
This study demonstrates that planar Ag/MAPbI thin single-crystal devices exhibit ultra-low dark currents and thermally activated transport, while light illumination induces optically tunable threshold switching and polarity-dependent hysteresis driven by coupled interfacial and ionic processes at the Ag/perovskite contacts.
Using resonance Raman spectroscopy on hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe2, the study reveals that asymmetric resonance peaks in the optical phonon mode arise from third-order scattering that couples bright excitons to momentum-dark excitons approximately 45–55 meV lower in energy, thereby providing a microscopic framework for understanding the material's efficient bright-to-dark exciton coupling and anomalously bright emission.
This study demonstrates that the spin spiral state in multiferroic NiI2 thin films undergoes a dimensional crossover driven by enhanced interlayer exchange energy as thickness increases, while local strain from film wrinkles can deflect the spin spiral wavevector, establishing both thickness and strain as effective tuning methods for engineering non-collinear magnetism and electric polarization in van der Waals multiferroics.