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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 microwave spectroscopy on a high-quality ferromagnet, researchers observed an unexpected Fano resonance that reveals the existence of long-lifetime magnon pairs through their coherent coupling with Kittel magnons via three-magnon interactions.
This study establishes RuO as a weakly correlated Fermi liquid by revealing a previously undetected quadratic temperature dependence in its electric resistivity that follows Kadowaki-Woods scaling, while thermal transport measurements show a deviation from the Wiedemann-Franz law at finite temperatures, providing critical data for first-principles theories of electron-electron scattering in metallic oxides.
This paper reviews recent progress and presents original results on applying quantum geometry, including Zeeman and information geometries, to -wave magnets () to derive universal analytic formulas for their anomalous transport, magneto-optical, and oscillation phenomena.
This study employs first-principles calculations to comprehensively characterize carbon self-interstitial defects in diamond from mono- to hexa-interstitials, revealing a strong energetic drive for aggregation into stable clusters like tetra-interstitial platelets, identifying specific electronic and vibrational signatures that distinguish inert from active defects, and proposing structural origins for the 3H and TR12 experimental centers.
This study utilizes kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and analytical modeling to demonstrate that while radiation-induced chromium segregation in Fe-Cr alloys exhibits a linear dependence on sink density for planar (1D, 2D, and 3D) sinks, spherical sinks display a more complex, non-linear relationship influenced by sink dimensionality and morphology.
This study reveals that applying hydrostatic pressure to the frustrated heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CePdIn induces a non-monotonic evolution of its magnetic transition temperature and a distinct phase transition near 2.6 GPa, suggesting that enhanced Kondo hybridization drives a change in the underlying electronic structure between two different antiferromagnetic phases.
This paper introduces a new class of coplanar antiferromagnets that exhibit parity and time-reversal invariant Ising spin ordering, demonstrating that their spin-rotational symmetry breaking enables unique non-relativistic spin transport phenomena and tunable spin splittings, with sixteen candidate materials identified to validate these emergent responses.
The authors report that a tantalum-based transmon qubit exhibits exceptional stability with a charge offset pinned at zero for nearly three months due to a fragile, inadvertently formed parallel superconducting layer caused by incomplete etching, offering a potential route to eliminating charge-offset drift in superconducting circuits.
This study employs density functional theory to demonstrate that the influence of Cu, Co, Fe, and Zn doping on twin formation energetics in non-modulated Ni-Mn-Ga martensite is strongly site-dependent, where specific substitutions lower nucleation barriers and facilitate twinning while others increase energy barriers and hinder it, thereby linking atomic-scale defect landscapes to macroscopic twin behavior and modulation stability.
This study demonstrates that structural flexibility, rather than electronic configuration alone, dictates the reactivity of single-atom catalysts by enabling significant differences in CO adsorption energy between Fe-N and Fe-N sites through geometry-dependent back-bonding.