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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 investigates using a damascene fabrication process to replace lossy native sidewall oxides with a metal/substrate interface in tantalum coplanar waveguide resonators, showing a modest improvement in performance that suggests a reduction in surface participation.
This paper demonstrates that applying self-assembled organic monolayers to tantalum and silicon surfaces significantly improves the coherence of superconducting resonators by suppressing oxide regrowth and reducing dielectric losses from two-level systems.
QAssemble is a modular, pure-Python package for quantum many-body theory that utilizes an object-oriented architecture and vectorized numerical kernels to provide an efficient, extensible framework for implementing various functional approaches like Hartree-Fock and GW approximations.
This paper uses first-principles calculations to theoretically predict that a hypothetical cubic phase of could exhibit strong-coupling superconductivity with a critical temperature of up to 73.7 K at ambient pressure.
This paper presents a machine-learning-enhanced workflow to demonstrate how lattice dynamics and structural relaxation deepen moiré potentials in large-scale twisted supercells, thereby facilitating robust Wigner crystallization and emergent correlated electronic states.
This paper uses first-principles calculations to systematically investigate the properties of intrinsic and extrinsic defects in bulk hexagonal diamond, identifying key dopants for conductivity engineering and potential defect complexes for quantum applications.
This paper presents a novel method combining electron beam precession with advanced post-processing (Sobel filtering and SVD) to overcome conventional artifacts in STEM-DPC, enabling the accurate, unbiased nanoscale mapping of electric fields and charge distributions across random grain boundaries in polycrystalline oxides.
This molecular dynamics study demonstrates that while higher implantation temperatures preserve crystallinity, lower temperatures (around 500 K) actually promote better Al dopant activation by preventing the formation of large, Al-trapping interstitial clusters that emerge at higher temperatures and doses.
This paper demonstrates that in charged colloidal crystals, electrostatic-elastic coupling causes wave-vector-dependent elastic softening that leads to a short-wavelength ultraviolet instability and local structural collapse, even while the macroscopic long-wavelength stability remains intact.
This paper presents a novel classification of magnetic excitations in itinerant ferromagnets (Fe, Ni, and Co) using linear response TDDFT, distinguishing between coherent and incoherent magnons by analyzing whether the self-enhancement function crosses unity at the spectral peaks.