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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.
Using molecular dynamics simulations, this study reveals that deeply supercooled water in the "no man's land" regime forms a unique, self-arrested liquid state driven by a self-generated nanoporous "soft skeleton" that imposes intrinsic nanoconfinement, thereby resolving the structural and thermodynamic anomalies of this debated phase.
Using molecular dynamics simulations with a machine-learned interatomic potential, this study reveals that oxygen's effect on the surface tension of AlTi alloys is composition-dependent, causing oxygen enrichment at the interface that suppresses aluminum surface segregation, with results validated against microgravity levitation experiments.
This study reveals that in minor actinide-bearing high-entropy ceramic fuels, short-range ordering of Np and Am induces lattice distortions that initially confine oxygen ions but ultimately facilitate a superionic transition at high temperatures by transforming localized traps into interconnected networks, thereby driving a kinetic inversion where entropy-enhanced diffusion surpasses that of random solid solutions.
This paper demonstrates that the nonlinear optical properties of a nanoporous photonic metamaterial can be programmatically engineered by controlling the crystallization orientation of benzil within anodic aluminum oxide nanochannels, enabling the transition from isotropic to macroscopically anisotropic second-harmonic generation through confined crystallization.
This paper resolves a decades-long discrepancy in the length-gauge time-dependent Liouville equation by demonstrating that the correct formalism requires two partial derivatives with respect to crystal momentum rather than a Dirac delta, revealing that previous k-diagonal approximations significantly underestimate energy absorption and polarization.
This paper demonstrates that structural domain walls in rhombohedral graphene quarter metals become electronically opaque under an applied magnetic field due to momentum-space chirality, whereas intrinsic domain walls formed by spontaneous valley symmetry breaking are eliminated, providing a distinct magnetotransport signature to differentiate between the two types of domain walls.
This paper argues that the skyrmion Hall effect predicted by Jin et al. in d-wave altermagnets is a numerical discretization artifact rather than a genuine physical phenomenon, as the proposed quadrupole tensor mechanism theoretically vanishes for smooth, localized textures.
This study demonstrates that post-deposition annealing of SnTe films on Bi2Te3-buffered sapphire optimizes crystallinity and stoichiometry, thereby enabling the quantitative characterization of topological surface states through magneto-transport measurements that reveal distinct scaling behaviors and coherent transport properties.
This paper demonstrates that the broad X-ray photoelectron lines observed in silicon oxide interfaces arise from a continuous statistical distribution of core-level binding energies caused by local structural variations, which challenges conventional methods of assigning chemical states.
This study demonstrates that the wide-bandgap semiconductor CuAlO2 exhibits record-breaking colossal optical anisotropy and transparency across the entire visible spectrum, driven by its unique 3D O-Cu-O dumbbell structure and 2D-confined excitonic transitions, making it a superior candidate for advanced photonic applications.