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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 an integrated experimental and computational framework that couples high-speed infrared imaging with 3D multiphysics modeling to accurately predict and validate the transient thermal conditions, solidification dynamics, and resulting microstructure evolution during selective laser melting of MAR-M247.
This paper investigates the scattering of water waves by a surface-mounted rectangular anisotropic elastic plate with various edge conditions by combining a Rayleigh–Ritz method for dry modes and a boundary integral equation approach, revealing how symmetry constraints can forbid the excitation of specific resonant modes.
This paper presents a semi-analytical modal expansion method to investigate wave energy absorption by floating and submerged piezoelectric bimorph plates, demonstrating through numerical results that submerged configurations with clamped boundary conditions achieve greater energy efficiency than surface-floating or simply supported alternatives.
The paper introduces FrOGS, a hybrid discrete neural sampler that couples an autoregressive model with a continuous-time Markov chain to efficiently generate independent alloy configurations and provide unbiased free energy estimates across diverse chemical conditions on a common absolute scale, outperforming existing methods like MCMC and SEGAL in accuracy and stability.
This paper demonstrates that the open-circuit voltage of ion-insertion batteries is not solely a chemical property but a chemo-mechanical characteristic significantly influenced by particle swelling, external loads, and electrode microstructure, which alter contact stresses and shift chemical potentials.
This study reveals that thermal history, alongside cation and halide composition, acts as a critical design variable controlling dynamic local structural fluctuations in lead halide perovskites, thereby directly governing their optoelectronic response and stability across various operating conditions.
This paper presents a first-principles formalism based on Koopmans-compliant hybrid functionals to calculate polaron self-trapping rates across a wide range of technologically relevant materials, revealing lifetimes spanning seven orders of magnitude and offering critical insights into carrier localization dynamics, including the potential hindrance of -type conductivity in rutile GeO.
By combining Sb NQR measurements and density functional theory calculations, this study reveals that Sn substitution in CsVSb induces local structural distortions and drives a complex interplay between these impurity effects and competing lattice instabilities, ultimately stabilizing nearly degenerate V-trimer structures in the fully doped limit.
SALTED is an open-source Python package that employs a symmetry-adapted Gaussian process regression algorithm to efficiently predict quantum-mechanical electron densities and their electric field responses in molecular and condensed-phase systems, leveraging a linear atom-centered decomposition for high transferability and seamless integration with major electronic-structure codes.
This paper utilizes self-consistent relaxation theory to define the Frenkel line in Yukawa fluids as the thermodynamic boundary where the roton minimum in the longitudinal excitation dispersion relation vanishes, demonstrating that this dynamic crossover can be directly determined from the static structure factor and aligns with molecular dynamics simulation results.