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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.
By combining synchrotron X-ray pair distribution function analysis with machine learning-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations, this study reveals how varying the geometry and rigidity of building units in three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks tunes local linker dynamics and inter-linker coupling, establishing a design blueprint for controlling guest adsorption and mechanical response.
This perspective argues that porous silicon can function as an adaptive, water-driven platform for blue materials by leveraging its tunable pore hierarchy, surface chemistry, and semiconducting skeleton to control water transport, induce structural changes, and generate electrical signals across multiple length scales.
This paper introduces MagPT, a broadly pretrained atomistic foundation model that successfully predicts complex magnetic behaviors across diverse chemistries, structures, and temperatures by simultaneously treating atomic positions and vector spin moments, thereby overcoming the limitations of material-specific approaches.
This paper reports the fabrication of spherical liquid crystal polymer microlasers with a bipolar refractive index profile that confines lasing exclusively to the equatorial plane via transverse electric modes, enabling pump-position-independent localized sensing and revealing sub-mode splitting caused by the lifting of azimuthal mode degeneracy.
This study utilizes in-situ photoelectron spectroscopy to demonstrate that the energy level alignment between C60 and MAPbI3 is chemically stable but exhibits a variable downward shift dependent on surface conditions, thereby explaining performance inconsistencies in perovskite devices and highlighting the critical need for precise surface control and interface modification.
This study reveals that reliable magnetoelectric cross-control in MnGeO requires a specific deterministic initialization procedure to guide metastable domains to equilibrium, rather than relying on repeated field cycling, thereby enabling robust global inversion of ferroelectric domains via magnetic fields.
This study establishes that lattice distortion actively couples with cation disorder to suppress short-range ordering and activate Li+ migration through previously inaccessible channels, enabling the design of high-capacity cation-disordered rocksalt oxides that surpass traditional 0-TM percolation limits.
Using micro-ARPES and density functional theory, this study reveals that CoNbSe exhibits distinct surface states dependent on whether the material terminates in cobalt or selenium, highlighting the critical need to account for surface termination to accurately identify altermagnetic features in layered systems.
This paper introduces a superior reciprocal-space-based analysis method for transient microscopy data that offers greater accuracy and precision in quantifying transport parameters compared to traditional mean squared displacement curve-fitting, while also providing deeper insights into complex and anomalous transport dynamics.
This study demonstrates that while iron can be successfully intercalated beneath PASG-grown graphene on 4H-SiC(0001) to form room-temperature ferromagnetic films protected from oxidation, the process is challenging due to competing silicide formation and is severely limited by the rapid exchange of iron with selenium, hindering the creation of multi-element 2D compounds via sequential intercalation.