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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 challenges the concept of stress-induced overaging in polymer glasses by demonstrating that PMMA samples aged under stress exhibit higher yield stress yet faster segmental dynamics compared to quiescently aged samples, indicating that yield stress is not a simple function of structural relaxation time.
This study demonstrates that binary physical vapor deposition glasses of organic semiconductors TPD and m-MTDATA achieve exceptional thermodynamic and kinetic stability comparable to ultrastable single-component glasses when deposited at substrate temperatures between 0.78 and 0.90 times the glass transition temperature, confirming that the surface equilibration mechanism governs the stability of co-deposited mixtures.
This study reveals that in layered electride LaCl, the coupling between anionic electrons and the atomic lattice activates direct hopping channels that reconstruct the electronic structure and transform the lattice topology from a bipartite dice-lattice to a tripartite network, demonstrating a new mechanism for tuning electronic properties in electrides.
Using a photobleaching technique, this study reveals that melt-stretched poly(methyl methacrylate) glasses exhibit more prominent strain-hardening and approximately 15% faster segmental dynamics than non-stretched counterparts, while both systems show significant acceleration of segmental motion in the deep strain-hardening regime consistent with prior simulations.
This study demonstrates through first-principles calculations that negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers in the AB configuration of hexagonal diamond (lonsdaleite) exhibit a finite transverse zero-field splitting that enhances Hahn-echo coherence times by approximately fourfold compared to cubic diamond, establishing them as promising candidates for quantum applications.
This paper demonstrates that a small language model (Qwen3-4B) fine-tuned on VASP calculations and paired with a deterministic post-processor called VASPGuard (forming INCAR-SLM) outperforms larger general-purpose models, including GPT-5.4, in reliably generating physics-sensitive VASP INCAR files for local, high-throughput materials workflows.
Millisecond flash lamp annealing at a specific low-energy density (4.9 J cm⁻²) significantly reduces the resistivity of nitrogen-doped p-type Cu₂O thin films to 0.045 Ωcm by enhancing mobility, whereas higher energy densities degrade electrical conductivity despite widening the optical band gap.
This paper introduces the concept of completeness for two-dimensional second-gradient elastic continua and demonstrates that while classical and bi-pantographic fabrics are incomplete, a newly proposed tri-pantographic architecture successfully synthesizes a complete continuum with positive definite energy control over all second-gradient increments.
This study utilizes atomically resolved imaging and numerical modeling to demonstrate that in the itinerant skyrmion magnet GdRuGe, the alignment of Gd 4 spins directly dictates the multi- charge texture of Ru 4 orbitals, revealing a microscopic intertwining of spin and charge degrees of freedom across multiple magnetic phases.
This study demonstrates that reducing 1T-TaS to the monolayer limit significantly enhances charge-density-wave transitions and drives a correlated insulating state due to strengthened Coulomb interactions from reduced out-of-plane screening, while simultaneously suppressing the first-order hysteretic transition observed in thicker layers.