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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 generalizes the framework of universal upper bounds on energy gaps in Chern insulators to photonic systems, providing a method to rigorously estimate the topological charge of band gaps in both dispersive and nondispersive regimes without requiring explicit topological analysis.
This paper proposes an efficient, matrix-free FFT-based solver using Chebyshev collocation and LGMRES with hierarchical refinement to accurately solve stationary diffusion problems with general boundary conditions on large 3D grids while maintaining computational complexity.
This first-principles study demonstrates that specific peripheral nitrogen topologies (pyridinic, pyridazinic, pyrrolic, and pyrazolic) around graphene voids act as a deterministic defect-chemical switch, enabling precise control over structural stability, electronic band gaps, and magnetic moments to engineer metal-free spintronic and semiconducting domains.
This article reviews recent advances in understanding highly stable, vapor-deposited glasses, which exhibit superior density and kinetic stability compared to traditional liquid-cooled glasses, offering unique insights into the ideal glass state and the broader potential for stable glass formation across various materials.
This study demonstrates that the pretrained UMA-s-1p1 foundation model can effectively simulate oxygen plasma interactions with multilayer WS without fine-tuning, while further iterative fine-tuning using diverse SOAP-based sampling and DFT labels significantly improves its accuracy in predicting energy and force properties.
This paper introduces a topology-preserving Python framework that reliably initializes star and cyclic polymer architectures for LAMMPS simulations by ensuring exact ring closure and overlap-free placement, thereby eliminating artificial stresses and enhancing the reproducibility of molecular dynamics results.
This study utilizes first-principles calculations to demonstrate that point defects in wurtzite AlN are energetically stabilized at vertical inversion domain walls, where they differentially influence domain wall displacement and potentially contribute to leakage currents and degraded ferroelectric performance.
This paper identifies thermodynamic flaws in existing Seebeck coefficient models and proposes a theoretically sound, low-cost reversible model based on the drift-diffusion equation with the Soret effect, which accurately predicts experimental data for highly n-doped silicon while offering a concise alternative for thermoelectric property evaluation.
Using GW+BSE many-body perturbation theory, this study reveals that while MoS/MoSe heterostructures lack switchable interlayer dipoles due to intrinsic chemical potential mismatch, their specific stacking sequences enable deterministic control of photogenerated electrons and interlayer excitonic shifts, establishing them as promising platforms for sliding ferroelectricity and programmable optoelectronics.
This paper proposes that intrinsic sliding ferroelectricity in bilayer 1T'-WTe can reversibly tune and significantly enhance both conventional and anomalous spin Hall conductivities, offering a promising strategy for achieving field-free magnetization switching in nonvolatile spintronic devices.