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 paper introduces a mathematically well-posed second-gradient framework for incompressible viscous fluids with pressure-dependent viscosity that ensures ellipticity of the governing pressure equation, and demonstrates that explicit solutions for steady cylindrical flows converge to classical Navier-Stokes results as characteristic length scales vanish.
This paper proposes dual-circular Raman scattering as a sensitive probe for identifying elusive axial multipolar orders, demonstrating through symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations on pyrite that both time-reversal-even and -odd multipolar phases exhibit significant Raman optical activity driven by multipolar phonons.
evoxels is a fully Pythonic, differentiable physics framework that unifies 3D microscopy data, physical simulations, and machine learning to enable inverse material design by bridging experimental imaging with predictive modeling for optimizing microstructures and manufacturing routes.
This study demonstrates that strong local and non-local magnetic correlations in the paramagnetic phase of itinerant ferromagnets and altermagnets induce a momentum-dependent splitting of the electronic spectrum that mimics the ordered phase band structure and suppresses spectral weight at the Fermi level.
This study establishes the crystallographic origins of ferroelectricity in heterodeformed bilayer hexagonal boron nitride across both small and large twist angles, revealing distinct polarization switching mechanisms involving swirling dislocations and introducing a novel density-functional-theory-informed continuum framework (BFIM) to accurately predict ferroelectric behavior in large-unit-cell heterostructures where traditional methods fail.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that exciton condensation significantly stabilizes sliding ferroelectricity in WTe2 bilayers by inducing ground-state band renormalizations, thereby revealing a general mechanism where enhanced excitonic effects in 2D van der Waals systems enable new pathways for controlling quantum phases via electric fields.
Using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), this study reveals unexpected ultra-slow convective flow and heterogeneous dynamics in PM7 polymer solutions, demonstrating that even modest X-ray beam heating induces measurable vertical motion and highlighting the structural complexity of conjugated polymer aggregates.
This paper presents a unified first-principles framework combining the Boltzmann transport equation with electron-phonon scattering and Berry curvature to accurately predict and explain magnetotransport signatures like the chiral anomaly in TaAs and the nonlinear Hall effect in various noncentrosymmetric materials.
This paper demonstrates that the distinctive X-shaped Fermi surface geometry of conducting X-type collinear antiferromagnets, exemplified by , enables highly efficient nonrelativistic charge-spin conversion with up to 90% efficiency and out-of-plane spin generation, offering a superior spin source for low-power spintronic devices compared to existing magnetic materials.
This paper establishes a formal link between standard supercell calculations and ab initio polaron equations, demonstrating through quantitative comparisons on TiO2, MgO, and LiF that both methods yield nearly identical polaron wavefunctions and distortions, with minor energy discrepancies attributed to neglected higher-order electron-phonon couplings.