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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.
Using a three-orbital Hubbard model within the Hartree-Fock and random phase approximations, this study identifies commensurate altermagnetic order as the leading magnetic instability in stoichiometric RuO without spin-orbit coupling, while noting that finite hole doping or higher temperatures induce incommensurate wave vectors.
This paper demonstrates that the anomalous decrease in laser-induced magnetization damping time near a spin-orientation transition is not an intrinsic material property but rather an artifact caused by the interference of nonuniformly precessing local magnetizations, which invalidates the standard macrospin approach.
This study demonstrates that epitaxial Co(001)/CoO(001) bilayers exhibit stable, training-cycle-independent asymmetric magnetization reversal below the blocking temperature, where the asymmetry magnitude is directly correlated with the exchange bias strength, contrasting with the behavior observed in polycrystalline systems.
This study demonstrates through density functional theory calculations that a tensile-strained pentagonal PdTe2 monolayer acts as a highly efficient, tunable 2D photocatalyst for sustainable solar-driven hydrogen production, achieving a 20.40% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency at neutral pH by optimally straddling water redox potentials and minimizing reaction overpotentials.
This study characterizes the hexagonal, two-sublayer structure and unique electronic properties of a newly discovered AlSe surface alloy on Al (111), highlighting its potential as a large-scale, atomically flat interface with a wide band gap for two-dimensional material applications.
This paper introduces the spin dissymmetry factor as a local measure of spin-selectivity in optical transitions and demonstrates its application in designing a three-fold symmetric metasurface cavity that maximizes spin-selective radiative coupling while distinguishing between spin and chirality in near- and far-field responses.
This molecular dynamics study demonstrates that the creep resistance of MoNbTaW refractory high-entropy alloys is significantly enhanced by increasing grain size and introducing local chemical order, as both factors strengthen grain boundaries and suppress grain-boundary-dominated deformation mechanisms.
This study introduces a novel phenothiazine-based self-assembled monolayer with thiophene head groups (Th-2EPT) that optimizes interfacial coordination and lattice matching in tin perovskite solar cells, enabling a record power conversion efficiency of 8.2% that surpasses traditional PEDOT-based devices.
This paper proposes a mechanism in synthetic antiferromagnets where off-resonant radiofrequency driving of optical modes triggers predator-prey dynamics between acoustic and optical modes, leading to self-induced time-periodic modulation of the canted state and the emergence of Floquet states observable as a rich frequency comb.
This paper demonstrates that Floquet engineering via periodic light irradiation provides a universal and tunable strategy to induce controllable odd-parity magnetism in conventional two-dimensional collinear antiferromagnets, expanding the design possibilities for unconventional compensated magnetic states.