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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 demonstrates that odd-parity antiferromagnets, despite their potential for spintronics applications, are inherently prone to incommensurate magnetic ordering due to symmetry-allowed Lifshitz invariants and van Hove singularities, often resulting in first-order transitions or intermediate incommensurate phases.
This study combines density functional theory calculations with experimental data to elucidate the structural and hyperfine magnetic properties of Ni- and Cr-doped cementite, specifically determining impurity site preferences, analyzing the formation mechanism of hyperfine fields, and validating Mössbauer spectroscopy approximations.
This paper presents diamond-loaded polyimide aerogel scattering filters that successfully meet the mechanical and scientific requirements for cryogenic astrophysical and planetary science instruments, demonstrating their durability at 4 K and providing critical emissivity data for future experiment designs.
This study reveals that ultrafast spin injection in a WSe-graphene heterobilayer is actively driven by a dynamical carrier filtering mechanism at the interface, where spin-polarized carriers generated in WSe induce a preferential migration of opposite-spin carriers from graphene to create net magnetization.
This theoretical study demonstrates that terahertz radiation can induce transitions between attractive and repulsive Fermi polaron states in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers through both a direct optical conversion process governed by many-body correlations and an indirect mechanism driven by electron gas heating.
This study utilizes post-mortem Li-NRA, XRD, and SEM analyses to reveal that high C-rate cycling in commercial NMC/graphite coin cells causes significant cathode lithium depletion (~19.7%), anode surface lithium accumulation linked to plating and SEI formation, and the presence of Li₂Co₃ in dead graphite, collectively driving capacity fade and increased internal resistance.
This paper demonstrates that static electron-phonon coupling in two-dimensional Rashba -wave altermagnets can induce anisotropic suppression and complete depolarization of the spin Edelstein effect via Fermi surface collapse, offering a reversible mechanism for controlling spin polarization in next-generation spintronic devices.
Using spherical neutron polarimetry and density functional theory, this study identifies the ground state magnetic structure of Mn3Sn as an inverse triangular Type III configuration selected by subtle sixth-order anisotropy, while revealing that its magnetic domains are partially controllable by moderate fields at low temperatures but become decoupled and uncontrollable upon entering the incommensurate phase.
This study combines first-principles calculations and experimental imaging to identify a stable, previously unreported 12 surface reconstruction on -GaO(001) composed of paired GaO tetrahedra, while also revealing cooperative indium incorporation effects that offer new insights for controlling epitaxial growth.
This paper presents a general interpolation-based framework for tailoring dispersion relations and evanescent modes in multimodal nonlocal lattices by enforcing prescribed frequency-wavenumber constraints, enabling the design of complex wave behaviors like rotons and controlled band-gap localization while ensuring physically consistent, positive-only stiffness parameters.