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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 rapid, label-free, and sensitive dopamine biosensing method using plasmonic-mediated, atomically engineered 2D aluminum quasicrystals (Al70Co10Fe5Ni10Cu5) via spatial self-phase-modulation, with experimental results validated by DFT simulations and compared favorably against other optical techniques for potential large-scale medical diagnostics.
This study demonstrates that substrate-dependent electronic dissipation pathways critically govern the size and formation efficiency of nanopores in monolayer MoS under highly charged and swift heavy ion irradiation, with SiO promoting pore formation while gold substrates significantly suppress it.
This paper introduces an active learning workflow that fine-tunes universal machine learning potentials to efficiently and accurately locate transition states for surface catalysis, achieving DFT-quality results with minimal computational cost and demonstrating the viability of this approach for high-throughput catalyst screening.
This study employs large-scale first-principles calculations to systematically characterize over 90 defects in defect-engineered 4H-TaS, revealing their microscopic nature and impact on interlayer charge transfer to establish a foundational resource for future research on this material's exotic quantum phases.
This paper establishes a reproducible molecular beam epitaxy process for growing high-quality thin films and nanostructures, revealing a novel kinetic-driven "selective stoichiometric shift" and intrinsic structural asymmetry that provide fundamental insights for integrating topological materials into hybrid quantum architectures.
Through a combination of experimental measurements and theoretical calculations, this study reveals that LaAgAs2, despite its distorted square-net structure transforming 2D Dirac bands into quasi-1D trivial bands, hosts multiple topological states near the Fermi level including nontrivial Z2 surface states and bulk Dirac states, offering a new guideline for designing topological materials.
This study demonstrates that the propagation trajectory of magnetic antivortices at bifurcations in reconfigurable NdCo/NiFe racetracks can be precisely controlled by applying low-amplitude transverse magnetic fields to switch branches via Zeeman coupling and by tuning in-plane magnetic anisotropy to break symmetry, all without altering the global stripe domain landscape.
This paper demonstrates the first solvent-free, vapor-phase chiral epitaxy of aligned tellurium nanowires on low-symmetry ReSe2, where the substrate's chirality dictates the nanowire enantiomer during nucleation via interface energy differences, offering a contamination-free route for manufacturing homochiral crystals.
This study utilizes resonant Raman spectroscopy to identify and characterize excitonic polarons in bismuth vanadate (BiVO) by detecting a distinct low-energy resonance at 1.94 eV arising from strong exciton-phonon coupling, thereby establishing the technique as a powerful tool for probing such quasiparticles in oxide materials.
By integrating liquid state theory with deep learning, this paper establishes "dielectrocapillarity" as a rigorous first-principles framework demonstrating how electric field gradients enable exquisite, tunable control over the phase transitions, capillary condensation, and adsorption of polar fluids in confined nanoporous environments.