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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 study demonstrates that fracture initiation in silicate glasses is governed by a universal shear localization mechanism, challenging the traditional view that emphasizes volumetric densification and aligning these materials with the rupture behavior of bulk metallic glasses and amorphous polymers.
This study demonstrates that hydrothermally grown chiral tellurium nanowires exhibit phase-coherent quasi-ballistic transport, gate-tunable quantum dot formation, and highly anisotropic g-factors, establishing them as a versatile platform for spin qubits and Majorana zero mode research.
This paper presents a new method for growing air-stable, highly crystalline zirconium oxide layers on niobium that form atomically sharp interfaces and prevent oxide re-growth, thereby offering a promising pathway to reduce two-level system defects and improve the coherence times of superconducting quantum devices.
This paper introduces Graphlet-MP, a comprehensive database and open-source toolkit that provides interpretable, data-efficient graphlet histogram representations for over 149,000 inorganic crystals to enable materials property prediction even with scarce experimental data.
This study utilizes 2D finite-element electrothermal simulations to demonstrate that thermoelectric effects and filamentary transport in GeSbTe mushroom phase change memory cells significantly reduce Reset energy and power when current flows from the top electrode to the narrow bottom electrode, while also revealing that programming volume is independent of contact dimensions above 10 nm and that larger contacts trade increased variability for improved reliability.
This study demonstrates that ultrathin (down to 5 nm) chromium-doped VO films exhibit improved selector properties, such as low leakage current and abrupt transitions, likely due to an interfacial amorphous layer and Ti diffusion from the electrode that homogenizes the behavior of crystalline and amorphous phases.
This paper demonstrates that the transconductance of multilayer WSe field-effect transistors can serve as a direct electrical spectrometer for measuring intervalley relaxation times, offering three distinct signatures—Lorentzian frequency response, two-stage current transients, and sweep-rate-proportional hysteresis—that provide quantitative access to this parameter using standard instrumentation.
This study presents the first direct neutron-scattering evidence of long-period helimagnetism in the newly identified B20 compound Fe0.5Rh0.5Si, utilizing SANS and magnetometry to map its magnetic phase diagram and expand the family of tunable chiral helimagnets.
The paper reports that the newly discovered bilayer nickelate LaNiOF exhibits a unique dichotomous electronic system where a partially occupied interstitial-based electron band () couples with Ni -orbitals to create a self-doped, two-dimensional structure that likely drives unconventional superconductivity.
This paper demonstrates that integrating metamaterial-inspired magnetic flux concentrators onto samples enables nanoscale magnetic imaging techniques to overcome instrumental field limits by locally amplifying magnetic fields, thereby allowing the observation of magnetization processes in magnetotactic bacteria and giant magnetofossils at applied fields significantly lower or higher than previously possible.