3594 papers
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 ferroelastic twin walls in the bulk crystal LaAlO3 naturally confine and canalize broadband terahertz and mid-infrared light at the nanoscale with lateral sizes up to 260 times smaller than the free-space wavelength, offering a fabrication-free platform for polaritonic circuitry.
This study demonstrates that interlayer coupling stabilizes the otherwise dynamically unstable monolayer CoTe into a bilayer structure and induces phonon-mediated superconductivity with a critical temperature of approximately 4.7 K, primarily through Te- charge redistribution and Fermi surface modifications, while noting that spin-orbit coupling subsequently suppresses this superconducting state.
This study establishes high-level quantum chemistry benchmarks for ethylene carbonate adsorption and decomposition on lithium (100) surfaces by extrapolating finite cluster results to the thermodynamic limit, ultimately validating the B97X-V functional as a reliable and affordable alternative to expensive methods for modeling lithium metal anode interfacial chemistry.
This study combines experimental data and atomistic simulations to distinguish between precipitation and surface complexation mechanisms in Mn(II) removal by oilseed rape straw biochar, revealing that high-temperature biochar primarily drives removal through pH-induced alkaline precipitation while lower-temperature variants rely on cation exchange and deprotonated site complexation.
This study comprehensively investigates the crystallographic orientation-dependent magnetotransport in the layered antiferromagnet CrSBr, demonstrating that its magnetoresistance serves as a direct probe of electronic anisotropy and revealing distinct transport behaviors for in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic fields.
The paper reveals a universal inverse-cube scaling law for projectile penetration energy in ultrathin films, attributing this enhanced resistance to finite-size suppression of long-wavelength nonaffine deformation modes that effectively increases the shear modulus regardless of material composition.
This paper predicts that supercurrents in superconductor/-wave altermagnet heterostructures can generate a Néel torque via spin-triplet correlations, enabling the dissipationless control of Néel vectors for applications in advanced memory and computing technologies.
This study utilizes SpookyNet machine-learning force fields and density-functional theory to demonstrate that aminobenzene-functionalized Janus graphene serves as a high-capacity, structurally defined anode for sodium-ion batteries, offering a low-voltage plateau, negligible volume change, and significantly faster ion diffusivity compared to conventional hard carbon.
This study demonstrates that using dimethylformamide (DMF) instead of acetone as a solvent significantly improves the dispersion of graphene nanoplatelets in epoxy matrices, thereby reducing interfacial thermal resistance and achieving a 44% higher thermal conductivity in the resulting nanocomposites.
This paper demonstrates through experiments and modeling that symmetric CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB synthetic antiferromagnets in a scissors state exhibit strong frequency non-reciprocity in their acoustical spin waves, enabling unidirectional energy transfer for wavevectors parallel to the applied magnetic field.