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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 combines angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory to demonstrate that the electronic band structure and Fermi surface topology of epitaxial SrRuO films are highly sensitive to epitaxial strain, exhibiting distinct orthorhombic-like and tetragonal-like symmetries on LSAT and STO substrates, respectively.
This paper presents an end-to-end, constraint-aware quantum optimization workflow for doped ZrO2 materials that utilizes a high-accuracy QUBO surrogate to enable both a constraint-preserving XY-mixer QAOA and a fault-tolerant Grover Adaptive Search, demonstrating significant probability concentration near the global optimum and substantial resource savings through feasible-space amplification.
This paper proposes a fast and accurate method for predicting the effective elastic moduli of digital rocks by combining a lightweight 3D convolutional neural network with hierarchical homogenization, which replaces computationally expensive direct numerical simulations and demonstrates that training on Hashin–Shtrikman-normalized factors offers the optimal balance between speed, accuracy, and physical consistency.
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of wide-field optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers to spatially visualize magnetic fields under simultaneous extreme conditions of high pressure (up to 7 GPa) and high temperature (500 K), establishing a new platform for imaging magnetic phenomena in such environments.
This first-principles study systematically analyzes the intrinsic defect energetics of Li2CO3 and Li2O2, revealing that fluorine doping selectively lowers vacancy formation energies to partially destabilize the carbonate framework and modulate the stability of these discharge products in lithium-oxygen batteries.
This study demonstrates that the mechanical critical pressure of the isoreticular RHO zeolite family can be exponentially tuned from approximately 0.94 GPa to below 0.03 GPa by increasing the isoreticular order, revealing that the framework's reversible phase-transition "valve" behavior is a generic property of the hierarchy that becomes significantly softer and more stimuli-responsive in larger members.
This study demonstrates that fine-tuning the MACE-MPA-0 foundation model on as few as 5 to 10 DFT configurations enables accurate machine-learned interatomic potentials to reproduce the barocaloric phase transformation of ammonium sulfate, overcoming the data inefficiency of training from scratch while highlighting the necessity of dispersion corrections and hybrid-DFT levels for correct phase behavior description.
This paper demonstrates that temperature modulations and gradients can harness depolarizing fields and combine with strain to dynamically control ferroelectric states and induce persistent polar textures without the need for external electrical poling.
This paper establishes a universal, Beer–Lambert-inspired framework that optimizes coplanar waveguide design for broadband magnetic resonance spectroscopy by identifying a near-universal sensitivity optimum dependent only on sample geometry and noise sources, while providing specific fabrication strategies for both PCB-milled and photolithographic instruments.
This paper demonstrates that optimizing sintering conditions, specifically through spark plasma sintering and post-sintering annealing, enables the fabrication of bulk TiO2 ceramics with a permittivity of 103 and an exceptionally low loss tangent of 0.006, making them highly suitable for terahertz all-dielectric metamaterial applications.