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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 proposes and analyzes a paradigm where a self-generated intracavity field, driven by electrical pumping in a semiconductor-cavity system, Floquet-dresses electronic bands to create a controllable geometric Hall response without the need for external laser illumination.
This study reveals that temperature actively modulates the excited-state structural reconfiguration in chiral 2D perovskites by inducing a crossover from field-driven Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering to population-driven Displacive Excitation of Coherent Phonons, thereby offering a strategy to tune exciton-lattice interactions through lattice compliance.
This study demonstrates that intrinsic charge transport can extend across macroscopic lengths in epitaxial CsPbBr single crystals by showing quantitative agreement between local terahertz and macroscopic Hall mobilities, thereby establishing a robust methodology for benchmarking intrinsic mobility in soft-lattice semiconductors.
Using first-principles molecular dynamics with significantly slower strain rates, this study reveals that neutron star crusts exhibit a universal regime of steady plastic flow after breaking, a finding that suggests repeated crustal failure and re-annealing could drive magnetar bursts and flares.
This paper proposes a minimal descriptor-based disorder-filter theory that explains the spatial organization of photoluminescence spectra in moiré heterobilayers by revealing a hierarchy of correlation lengths and robust spectral-shape relations, enabling the inference of effective disorder parameters from hyperspectral data without requiring microscopic line assignment.
This paper proposes a frequency-domain diagnostic method using phase-modulated photoexcitation to characterize nonlinear carrier dynamics and evaluate recombination rates in semiconductors, addressing the ambiguities often associated with non-exponential time-resolved responses.
Using density functional theory, this study demonstrates that external electric fields induce a nearly linear, layer-dependent modulation of both pairwise and higher-order exchange interactions in unsupported transition-metal trilayers by altering the spin-dependent local density of states at the Fermi level, while preserving the overall magnetic ground state.
This study demonstrates that adding minute amounts of iron atoms during on-surface synthesis on Au(111) facilitates the removal of metalated intermediates and byproducts, enabling the formation of structurally ordered, substrate-decoupled graphdiyne monolayers with a semiconducting bandgap of approximately 1.6 eV.
This study identifies a previously unreported class of low-energy planar stacking faults in Zn3P2 that are electronically benign but likely degrade solar cell performance by acting as preferential sites for the segregation of optically active point defects.
This study demonstrates that the entropy-stabilized Heusler alloy Co(TiVCrFe)Al exhibits a robust, intrinsic Berry curvature-driven anomalous Hall effect with high conductivity, showcasing the "cocktail effect" where significant chemical disorder does not diminish the topological transport properties typically found in ordered parent compounds.