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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 presents a versatile, low-density polyethylene-based transfer method that enables the deterministic, large-area stamping of high-quality 2D materials and heterostructures onto both flat and arbitrarily patterned substrates, facilitating the scalable fabrication of tunable optoelectronic devices.
By combining laser-driven shock compression experiments with machine-learned molecular dynamics simulations, this study reveals that titanium begins melting at 86 GPa, exhibits significant grain refinement during solid-liquid coexistence between 110–126 GPa, and retains highly textured crystalline remnants up to 180 GPa, highlighting challenges in precisely determining melt completion pressures with current experimental platforms.
This study demonstrates that controllably introducing disorder via iron cluster deposition in monolayer Fe(Te,Se) drives a superconductor-insulator transition, revealing a disorder-induced quantum phase transition characterized by the evolution from superconducting to insulating U-shaped gaps attributed to localization-enhanced Cooper pair correlations.
This study demonstrates that LaIrO is an orbital-selective spin-orbit Mott insulator where structural distortions and dimerization drive the bands to half-filling for correlation-driven Mott localization, while the bands remain band-insulating.
This paper presents a three-way coupled thermo-mechanical fracture model implemented in MOOSE to predict the damage of sintered -SiC across a wide temperature range (20–1400°C), demonstrating its accuracy through validation against experimental flexural strength and fracture toughness data while also evaluating its parallel computing scalability.
This study demonstrates the industrially scalable synthesis and characterization of high-density UB-UBC composites, revealing their superior uranium loading and promising oxidation resistance as advanced accident-tolerant nuclear fuel candidates.
This paper proposes a minimal electrostatic theory based on solvation entropy and the extended Born equation to quantitatively explain the large Seebeck coefficients in liquids, identifying key factors such as ion valence, cationic radius, and the temperature dependence of the dielectric constant as crucial determinants of the response.
This paper presents an implementation of an electron temperature-dependent interaction potential for copper within a two-temperature model molecular dynamics framework, introducing a specific algorithm to ensure energy conservation and addressing pressure relaxation effects caused by electron temperature gradients following laser irradiation.
This paper introduces a compact, modular memristor model that integrates volatile memory, synaptic-like plasticity, and a principled Laplace transform-based mapping to accurately simulate complex neuromorphic dynamics validated against experimental polymeric memristor data.
This paper derives a new extended dynamical density functional theory (EDDFT) for nonisothermal binary systems by incorporating momentum and energy densities via the Mori-Zwanzig-Forster projection operator technique, thereby enabling the description of both diffusive and convective dynamics while yielding exact functionals for hard spheres and correctly predicting the speed of sound.