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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 review examines how recent advances in materials science, device characterization, and nanofabrication are overcoming critical challenges in Josephson junction reproducibility, dissipation, and scalability to enable the transition from laboratory components to industrial-scale superconducting quantum processors.
This paper introduces a self-heating electrochemical cell that functions as a non-volatile, programmable linear resistor with nine decades of resistance range and high precision, overcoming the non-linearity and error limitations of existing memory technologies to enable efficient in-sensor analog signal processing and in-memory computing.
This paper presents a robust U-Net-based deep learning framework combined with a geometric analysis pipeline to quantitatively characterize the evolution of magnetic labyrinthine stripe patterns in Bi:YIG films, revealing distinct structural transition modes linked to field polarity during magnetic annealing.
This study demonstrates that compressive strain stabilizes an altermagnetic phase in epitaxial RuO films by enhancing the density of states near the Fermi level, with symmetry analysis revealing ideal altermagnetism in (100) films versus an uncompensated ferrimagnetic state in (110) films.
This paper introduces C2DTD, a compact, interpretable, and physics-informed topological descriptor that effectively captures multi-scale structural features of 2D carbon networks to enable robust, data-efficient machine learning predictions and deep physical insights into their energy landscapes.
PolyJarvis is an LLM-driven autonomous agent that integrates with the RadonPy platform to execute end-to-end all-atom molecular dynamics simulations for polymers, successfully predicting key properties like density and bulk modulus with high accuracy while demonstrating that LLM agents can match expert-level performance in polymer simulation workflows.
This paper reports the observation of a continuous transition from low-field Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations to high-field log-periodic oscillations in the Dirac material HfTe5, demonstrating how vacuum polarization and many-body screening drive the evolution from single-particle Landau quantization to an interaction-induced, discrete scale-invariant energy spectrum.
This paper demonstrates that in chiral crystals, mechanical angular momentum (MAM) of phonons can be converted into electronic degrees of freedom via a second-order perturbative Hamiltonian, thereby directly influencing electronic orbital and spin polarizations alongside the previously established crystal angular momentum (CAM) coupling.
Using ab initio molecular dynamics and free-energy calculations at 500 GPa, this study reveals that while noble gases are insoluble in solid metallic hydrogen due to unfavorable electronic and vibrational contributions, heavier noble gases (Ar, Kr, Xe) become soluble in the liquid phase, offering a microscopic mechanism for noble-gas fractionation in giant-planet interiors.
By combining neutron scattering experiments with multiscale modeling, this study reveals that intrinsic chemical disorder and compositional gradients in FePd-based superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures, rather than just interface effects, are the microscopic origin of finite net magnetic chirality that stabilizes chiral magnetic modulations.