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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.
By combining noncontact atomic force microscopy with density functional theory calculations, this study demonstrates that the unreconstructed -AlO(0001) surface is intrinsically inhomogeneous and rough rather than atomically flat and uniformly Al-terminated as commonly assumed.
This study demonstrates that ultrafast polarization switching in barium titanate driven by far-infrared (5–8 THz) laser pulses persists across a broad frequency range but is primarily governed by optical absorption rather than the longitudinal optical phonons or epsilon-near-zero conditions that dominate in the mid-infrared regime.
Using in-situ polarized neutron reflectometry during atmospheric deuterium loading, this study reveals that deuterium induces a paramagnetic phase transition in Tb-rich TbCo films primarily through thickness expansion while weakening out-of-plane anisotropy in Co-rich films, and demonstrates that an oxidized interface remains exchange-coupled and indirectly manipulable despite being insensitive to direct loading.
This paper demonstrates that shear strain-induced spin-group-symmetry breaking in collinear altermagnetic insulators enables sign-controlled charge and spin photocurrents via spin-gap asymmetry, offering a novel optical method to detect and investigate altermagnetism.
This study demonstrates that reactive magnetron sputtering using a liquid gallium target can successfully produce crystalline -GaO thin films with optimized electrical properties, particularly achieving a low resistivity of on sapphire substrates at 585°C, provided that deposition temperature and substrate selection are carefully controlled to ensure homogeneous crystallization.
This study demonstrates that strong magnetoelastic coupling in single crystals induces the emergence of multiple hybridized magnon modes during spin-reorientation phase transitions, driven by nonuniform spin-wave excitations within the intermediate magnetic domain structure.
Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, this study reveals that the air-stable van der Waals semiconductor CrSBr hosts strongly bound, quasi-one-dimensional excitons with an exceptionally large binding energy of ~800 meV, while demonstrating that their ultrafast formation and annihilation are governed by many-body interactions with free carriers on picosecond timescales.
This mini-review identifies "structural demons" as chemically invalid models in digital reticular chemistry that compromise computational screening, and proposes a framework to prevent their introduction by integrating synthesis data, standardizing curation, and filtering topology choices early in the workflow.
By combining large-scale ab-initio simulations with IR spectroscopy, this study reveals that while fluorinated surfaces exhibit macroscopic hydrophobicity, their interfacial water structure and slower reorientation dynamics are governed by dispersive rather than electrostatic interactions, resulting in unique spectroscopic signatures that defy simple classification as either hydrophobic or hydrophilic.
This paper demonstrates a novel strain-released epitaxy method for growing nearly strain-free single-crystalline GaN on compliant single-crystalline copper foils, where mismatch-induced stress is partitioned into the substrate via elastic deformation and localized interfacial slip, enabling high-performance GaN micro-LED arrays with efficient electrical and thermal properties.