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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 reader-friendly, nonlinear continuum theory for the flow of charged particles in elastic solids under large deformations and strong fields, derived from a three-continuum mixture model to describe the behavior of soft solid electrolytes and elastic semiconductors.
This paper presents a coarse-grained electrodynamic model demonstrating that optimizing the thickness of a carbon-based anchoring layer on helical carbon coil arrays significantly enhances microwave absorption in the 2–18 GHz range by improving impedance matching.
This paper introduces SkeleGen, a symmetry-constrained generative model that expands the discovery of flat-band materials beyond traditional geometric prototypes by generating and validating over 9,000 stable crystal candidates featuring novel, out-of-distribution sublattice motifs.
This paper introduces a unified, nonempirical dielectric-dependent hybrid functional that leverages intrinsic dielectric screening as a geometry-independent control parameter to accurately predict fundamental band gaps across diverse material dimensions with near-GW accuracy at a significantly lower computational cost.
This paper introduces NIMO, an open-source software platform that bridges diverse AI algorithms and heterogeneous robotic hardware through a modular CSV-based architecture and unified Python interface, enabling seamless closed-loop materials discovery across various experimental domains while also providing a no-code tool for non-programmers.
This paper presents a novel coupling strategy combining carbon layer orientation reconstruction and closed-pore construction to synthesize hard carbon with an ultra-low specific surface area, thereby achieving a high reversible capacity and exceptional initial Coulombic efficiency for sodium-ion batteries.
This study proposes a robust, magnetic field-free valleytronic platform by constructing a WSe2/V2O3 heterostructure, where first-principles calculations reveal that the intrinsic ferromagnetism of the V2O3 monolayer induces a significant spontaneous valley splitting of ~10.41 meV in WSe2, enabling near-room-temperature operation and tunability via external electric fields.
Using ultrafast low-energy electron diffraction, this study reveals a hierarchical relaxation pathway in T-WTe where photoexcited energy first populates anisotropic finite-momentum phonons via directional electron-phonon coupling before cascading to low-frequency acoustic modes through anharmonic scattering.
This study utilizes Spin Hall Magnetoresistance (SMR) to reveal that the Pt/CoVO interface exhibits a distinct biaxial magnetic anisotropy with easy axes along [110] and [10] that persists up to 120 K, contrasting with the bulk-sensitive measurements that show a temperature-dependent reorientation from out-of-plane to in-plane anisotropy.
This study utilizes synchrotron X-ray diffraction to demonstrate that the proposed polar altermagnetic phase in CaRuO is structurally absent down to 20 K, suggesting that the observed electronic phase transition is driven by strong electron correlations without measurable lattice symmetry breaking, while Ti substitution beyond 3% induces a chemically tunable altermagnetic state within the original structure.