3525 papers
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 demonstrates that selenium substitution in GdPS enhances spin-orbit coupling and magnetic anisotropy while suppressing the field-induced insulator-to-metal transition due to an enlarged band gap, thereby elucidating the critical interplay between these factors for future materials design.
This paper proposes that a finite-momentum pair-density-wave (PDW) state in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene reconciles observed tunneling signatures with low-temperature superfluid stiffness suppression by generating Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces, thereby establishing a direct experimental link between zero-bias conductance and phase rigidity.
This study utilizes millisecond-speed liquid cell electron microscopy combined with deep-learning denoising to directly visualize reversible, environment-dependent atomic fluctuations in gold nanocrystals, revealing how transient nanoscale dynamics govern their stability and reactivity in liquid environments.
This study utilizes a deep-learning potential validated by experiments to reveal that polyacrylonitrile facilitates concerted electron-ion transport through a rapid, Li+-coupled sequential ring-formation mechanism triggered by a nucleophile-initiated cyclization rate-limiting step.
This study demonstrates that while quantum effects significantly influence hydrogen permeation through graphdiyne membranes, classical molecular dynamics simulations combined with Feynman-Hibbs corrections can reliably bound these results, provided that the crucial thermal motion of the membrane is included to accurately capture the reduction in permeation barriers.
This study demonstrates that breaking inversion symmetry in centrosymmetric bilayer BiSe via twisting, point-defect insertion, or external electric fields unlocks strong, broadband nonlinear optical responses comparable to benchmark 2D materials, thereby enabling efficient THz applications and next-generation 2D photovoltaics.
This paper presents an efficient all-electron Bethe-Salpeter equation implementation within the FLAPW method that leverages crystal symmetries to block-diagonalize the two-particle Hamiltonian, significantly accelerating diagonalization and yielding improved exciton binding energies for materials like Si, LiF, and MoS.
This study combines experimental transport measurements and first-principles calculations to demonstrate that high nitrogen content in two-dimensional transition metal nitrides induces a metal-to-semimetal transition and disorder-driven transport mechanisms at low temperatures, while also revealing a thickness-dependent switching of majority carrier types.
This paper presents a GPU-accelerated multigrid Gaussian-Plane-Wave density fitting algorithm implemented in PySCF's GPU4PySCF module, which achieves up to 25x speedup over CPU implementations for large-scale Kohn-Sham DFT calculations while maintaining high efficiency for high angular momentum functions.
By combining first-principles calculations with the deep potential method, this study resolves the discrepancy between experimental observations and DFT predictions for CuInPS thin films by demonstrating that vibrational entropy stabilizes a ferrielectric ground state with intralayer ferroelectric ordering at finite temperatures.