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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 study demonstrates that the ferroelectric semiconductor ErMnO can function as an energy-efficient physical reservoir for temporal information processing by utilizing its photo-induced currents and controllable relaxation dynamics to significantly improve the recognition accuracy of time-varying light pulses.
This study achieves the complete quantitative determination of the energies and relative Raman tensor elements for all 15 Raman-active modes in monoclinic -GaO by combining polarization angle-resolved Raman spectroscopy on multiple crystal planes with a novel fitting procedure that explicitly accounts for the material's birefringence.
Using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy combined with ab initio simulations, this study identifies a b-axis-aligned double sulfur vacancy as a common intrinsic defect in CrSBr and characterizes its structural and electronic signatures near the valence band edge.
This study demonstrates that in superconducting NbSe2, Meissner currents induced by an in-plane magnetic field selectively Doppler-shift Bogoliubov quasiparticle spectra at charge density wave vectors, thereby driving a symmetry-breaking transition in CDW modulations and enabling momentum-space engineering of intertwined electronic phases.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that the coexistence of a real bond modulation and a chiral flux phase in a square-lattice superconductor breaks time-reversal symmetry to drive the system into topologically nontrivial phases with Chern numbers of , which are experimentally detectable via quantized thermal Hall conductivity.
Using first-principles DFT+U+J computations, this study demonstrates that the optical properties of hematite (-FeO) are governed by polaronic transitions involving electron localization on adjacent iron atoms coupled to specific longitudinal optical phonons, thereby accurately reproducing the material's temperature-dependent dielectric function and Raman spectra.
This study employs molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning to reveal that the thermal amorphization of ZIF-4 and melting of ZIF-zni proceed via distinct two-step mechanisms involving connectivity changes around Zn centers, with ZIF-4's non-isotropic amorphization driven by density and bond lability.
This study pioneers the application of Iterative Boltzmann Inversion and Force Matching methods to develop coarse-grained force fields for the ZIF-8 metal-organic framework, demonstrating their ability to reproduce structural, elastic, and thermal properties while successfully capturing the material's unique "swing effect" phase transition.
This study develops a hybrid MARTINI/Force Matching coarse-grained model to simulate ZIF-8/PVDF composites at the nanoparticle scale, revealing that while polymer penetration and CO2 adsorption generally correlate with nanoparticle size and morphology, the specific surface adsorption site availability ultimately dictates equilibrium gas uptake, sometimes counterintuitively overriding penetration trends.
This study demonstrates that treating oxygen vacancies statistically, rather than using traditional models, is essential for accurately predicting their formation in high-entropy perovskite oxides, revealing that A-site cation size variance significantly influences vacancy thermodynamics and reduces temperature sensitivity.