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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 applying a moderate electric field at room temperature dramatically enhances the efficiency of laser-induced coherent spin wave excitation in epitaxial iron garnet films, offering a powerful new tool for controlling spin dynamics in magneto-electric materials.
This paper identifies the quantum-geometric dipole as the key mechanism driving robust flavor ferromagnetism in flat-band moiré materials by determining the size of particle-hole excitations, which enhances their energy gap and stiffness through reduced mutual attraction.
This paper reveals that in nonequilibrium superconductors, a supercurrent initiated by a probe field can paradoxically grow in time during the cooling phase due to momentum-relaxing scattering of Bogoliubov quasiparticles by impurities and phonons, leading to experimental signatures such as an ultrafast Meissner effect and optical reflectivity exceeding unity.
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 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.
This paper presents a reinforcement learning agent utilizing geometric graph representations to efficiently optimize atomic ordering in bimetallic alloy nanoparticles, successfully identifying ground-state structures and demonstrating transferability across compositions and sizes, though with limitations in multi-element systems.
This paper proposes a hybrid architecture combining a CNN-based bijective autoencoder with a graph neural network to compress spatial dimensions and evolve grain growth in latent space, achieving significantly improved scalability, reduced computational costs, and enhanced long-term accuracy compared to GNN-only baselines for simulating realistic material microstructures.
This review examines the emerging paradigm of high-entropy perovskite oxides, highlighting how embedding extreme chemical disorder into the framework enables the discovery of novel electronic and magnetic phenomena through advances in synthesis, characterization, and theoretical understanding.
This study demonstrates that hydrothermally grown ZnO/ZnS heterostructures on nickel foam significantly enhance energy storage performance through a predominant pseudocapacitive mechanism, where the ZnS component acts as a crucial hole reservoir to boost charge storage capabilities.