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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.
The paper introduces ELECTRAFI, a fast and differentiable model that predicts periodic charge densities in crystalline materials by leveraging closed-form Fourier transforms of anisotropic Gaussians to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy with up to 633 times faster inference, thereby significantly reducing the total computational cost of DFT calculations.
This paper demonstrates that spurious imaginary phonon modes significantly distort heat capacity estimates and mislead machine learning benchmarks for Metal-organic Frameworks, and proposes a rapid post-processing workflow to correct these errors for accurate thermal property screening.
This paper introduces RADII, a radius-resolved benchmark that systematically characterizes the "extrapolation frontier" of graph generative models for materials science, revealing that structural fidelity degrades predictably beyond training radii and that this degradation pattern is unique to each model architecture.
This paper examines how the surge in AI and connected devices is driving a transition to edge computing architectures to meet unprecedented computational demands, outlining the key designs and metrics that will shape next-generation intelligent sensor systems.
This paper reformulates the macroscopic Young equation on molecular grounds using a universal wetting coefficient derived from water's intrinsic hydrogen-bond energetics, thereby revealing wetting as an emergent property of water itself and establishing a predictive framework that unifies wetting, adhesion, and cavitation across diverse surfaces.
This paper uses numerical simulations to demonstrate that while discrete dislocation dynamics models with annihilation rules consistently converge to a PDE accounting for annihilation, models without collision rules exhibit inconsistent convergence behavior, highlighting the critical importance of carefully treating dislocation collisions in such simulations.
This paper introduces a novel symmetry-aware padding method that integrates Wyckoff position information into encoder architectures to significantly enhance the accuracy, stability, and efficiency of generative models for designing diverse inorganic materials, achieving notable improvements in reconstruction accuracy and the generation of novel stable compounds.
This study reports the discovery of easily saturated and anisotropic magnetostriction in the prototypical altermagnet MnTe, a finding that challenges traditional views on antiferromagnetic magnetostriction by revealing a symmetry-allowed coupling between elastic strain and the Néel order parameter.
This paper establishes a symmetry-constrained rule for light-polarization-robust magnetization in antiferromagnetic systems and demonstrates through theory and calculations that spin-spiral structures, unlike collinear antiferromagnets, enable ultrafast, polarization-independent spin manipulation via real-space demagnetization and rotation.
This study demonstrates that combining chlorine substitution and helium ion irradiation in the two-dimensional magnetic semiconductor CrSBr induces local symmetry breaking and defect-related scattering, which collectively reconstruct the anisotropic Raman spectra while preserving robust resonance-enhanced electron-phonon coupling.