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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 presents a hybrid Molecular Dynamics and Variance-Constrained Semi-Grand Canonical method that successfully generates realistic, deeply supercooled multi-component ZrCu(Al) metallic glass samples, enabling the investigation of their dynamics, stability, and rheology in temperature regimes inaccessible to conventional simulations.
This first-principles study utilizes density functional theory to reveal how specific point defects and impurities, such as oxygen and carbon, hinder shallow doping in cubic boron arsenide, while identifying the AsB antisite pair as beneficial for both p- and n-type doping, thereby providing critical insights for optimizing BAs-based electronics.
By integrating machine learning, cluster expansion, and first-principles calculations to decouple many-body interactions, this study reveals that oxygen vacancies in CeO2(111) preferentially aggregate in the third oxygen layer due to geometric relaxation, a finding derived from extensive Monte Carlo sampling that offers a novel framework for understanding vacancy structures in metal oxides.
This paper introduces MOSP, a free and open-source graphical user interface package that integrates multiscale structure reconstruction and kinetic Monte Carlo models to simulate the dynamic structure and reactivity of metal nanoparticles under operando conditions.
This paper demonstrates that while structural symmetry breaking alone fails to explain the insulating state of Nb3Cl8 due to its partially occupied flat band, a cooperative mechanism involving both structural and magnetic symmetry breaking successfully lowers the system's energy to produce the observed insulating phase within density functional theory.
This study demonstrates that accurately interpreting X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering spectra in the mixed-valence ferromagnet LaSrMnO requires a comprehensive theoretical approach incorporating charge transfer, many-body core-valence exchange correlation, and Jahn-Teller distortions, as simplified models fail to capture key experimental substructures.
This paper demonstrates that optimizing sample and circuit layouts enables VO oscillators to operate in the 100 MHz range, overcoming previous frequency limitations and paving the way for ultrafast, energy-efficient oscillating neural networks.
This study utilizes first-principles density functional theory to demonstrate that the electronic and optical properties of thio-apatites Ba(VSO)X can be finely tuned through multiple anionic substitutions of sulfur for oxygen and varying halide types, revealing their potential as efficient photocatalysts for water splitting, particularly in the iodine-containing variant.
This paper demonstrates an electrically tunable heavy fermion phase diagram in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene, where a displacement field controls Kondo hybridization to drive a continuous quantum phase transition from an antiferromagnetic semimetal to a paramagnetic heavy fermion metal, marked by effective mass divergence and Fermi surface reconstruction at the critical point.
This study reveals that the shape of electron-irradiated pores in hexagonal boron nitride is chemically controlled by the presence of oxygen, with ultra-high vacuum conditions yielding circular pores while trace oxygen drives the formation of triangular, nitrogen-terminated pores.