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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 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.
This paper employs ab initio time-dependent GW-BSE calculations to elucidate the microscopic origins of coherent excitonic oscillations in monolayer WS and proposes a tailored pump-probe scheme for controlling these dynamics, offering a predictive pathway for ultrafast optoelectronic and quantum applications.
This study demonstrates that introducing structural disorder through rapid quenching and severe plastic deformation in the pseudo-binary Ce(Fe0.9Co0.1)2 compound stabilizes a low-temperature ferromagnetic state by suppressing the first-order transition to the antiferromagnetic phase, a mechanism attributed to topological disorder rather than simple structural distortions, which consequently significantly reduces the material's magnetocaloric entropy change.
This study employs a unified DFT+DMFT approach using bond-centered orbitals to comprehensively describe the structural and electronic properties of VO across its full phase space, revealing that the M2 phase is a strain-dependent local energy minimum featuring coupled singlet and Mott insulating states, while the T phase acts as a transitional state between M1 and M2 behaviors.
This paper establishes a theoretical framework and validates it experimentally to demonstrate that the optimal fluence for maximizing the lifted-off area in picosecond laser lift-off of copper oxide is , which is substantially lower than the fluence required for maximum ablation volume.
This paper demonstrates that conventional machine learning interatomic potentials fail to accurately model mixed-valence materials like NaFePO4 due to their inability to capture electronic entropy, but introducing explicit charge-state information into the potential's representation successfully resolves these errors and enables correct structural optimization and thermodynamic predictions.
This paper demonstrates that embedding a single quarter-wave plate in a confocal microscope induces strong spin-orbit interactions that transform a Gaussian beam into a tunable Hermite-Gaussian-like mode while significantly enhancing the polarization extinction ratio, offering a simple method for spatial mode engineering in standard optical systems.
This study combines neutron diffraction and first-principles calculations to precisely determine the hydrogen positions and confirm the -axis antiferromagnetic spin arrangement in -FeOOH, demonstrating the effectiveness of this dual approach for undeuterated compounds to aid in understanding CO reduction mechanisms.