2794 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 study demonstrates that liquid-state structural asymmetry, where cations with higher valence form locally crystal-compatible coordination environments more readily than lower-valence ones, governs species-selective incorporation and compositional heterogeneity during the crystallization of multicomponent systems like AgPbBiTe.
This paper demonstrates that the Sc2C2@C88 cluster functions as an ultra-compact, controllable multi-level probabilistic bit capable of generating high-quality random sequences and performing matrix-chain multiplication, thereby paving the way for next-generation intelligent electronic devices.
By combining noncontact atomic force microscopy with density functional theory calculations, this study demonstrates that the unreconstructed -AlO(0001) surface is intrinsically inhomogeneous and rough rather than atomically flat and uniformly Al-terminated as commonly assumed.
This paper demonstrates that shear strain-induced spin-group-symmetry breaking in collinear altermagnetic insulators enables sign-controlled charge and spin photocurrents via spin-gap asymmetry, offering a novel optical method to detect and investigate altermagnetism.
This study demonstrates that reactive magnetron sputtering using a liquid gallium target can successfully produce crystalline -GaO thin films with optimized electrical properties, particularly achieving a low resistivity of on sapphire substrates at 585°C, provided that deposition temperature and substrate selection are carefully controlled to ensure homogeneous crystallization.
Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, this study reveals that the air-stable van der Waals semiconductor CrSBr hosts strongly bound, quasi-one-dimensional excitons with an exceptionally large binding energy of ~800 meV, while demonstrating that their ultrafast formation and annihilation are governed by many-body interactions with free carriers on picosecond timescales.
This mini-review identifies "structural demons" as chemically invalid models in digital reticular chemistry that compromise computational screening, and proposes a framework to prevent their introduction by integrating synthesis data, standardizing curation, and filtering topology choices early in the workflow.
This paper employs ab initio time-dependent GW-BSE calculations to elucidate the microscopic origins of coherent excitonic oscillations in monolayer WS and proposes a tailored pump-probe scheme for controlling these dynamics, offering a predictive pathway for ultrafast optoelectronic and quantum applications.
This study demonstrates that introducing structural disorder through rapid quenching and severe plastic deformation in the pseudo-binary Ce(Fe0.9Co0.1)2 compound stabilizes a low-temperature ferromagnetic state by suppressing the first-order transition to the antiferromagnetic phase, a mechanism attributed to topological disorder rather than simple structural distortions, which consequently significantly reduces the material's magnetocaloric entropy change.
This study employs a unified DFT+DMFT approach using bond-centered orbitals to comprehensively describe the structural and electronic properties of VO across its full phase space, revealing that the M2 phase is a strain-dependent local energy minimum featuring coupled singlet and Mott insulating states, while the T phase acts as a transitional state between M1 and M2 behaviors.