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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 proposes a novel route to topological moiré minibands in centrosymmetric bilayers using noncollinear spin-orbit coupling instead of valley degrees of freedom, demonstrating the mechanism in HgI₂ and optimizing it via machine learning to achieve superior PbI₂ systems that support correlated magnetic and topological phases.
The paper introduces SG-SRAN, a symmetry-aware super-resolution network that maps crystal orientations to an invariant latent space to preserve grain boundaries and achieve high-fidelity resolution with minimal parameters, outperforming larger models on diverse crystal benchmarks.
This perspective paper reviews the current experimental techniques for measuring chiral phonons, analyzing their respective advantages and disadvantages to provide a comprehensive guide for future systematic investigations across diverse material systems and applications.
This study establishes the first quantitative grain growth framework for uranium mononitride (UN) by integrating molecular dynamics, phase-field modeling, and uncertainty quantification to determine that intrinsic grain boundary mobility is the dominant factor governing growth kinetics, while pore drag is negligible and grain boundary energy has minimal influence.
This study utilizes machine-learning atomistic simulations to demonstrate that crystallographic interface matching and orientation, rather than bulk free-energy relations alone, actively govern phase stability and lower transformation barriers in polymorphic HfO, thereby offering a pathway to stabilize metastable phases and direct phase conversion.
This study utilizes azimuth-resolved time-resolved X-ray diffraction to demonstrate that interfacial clamping in thin films acts as a static selector for ultrafast phase switching by anisotropically constraining lattice distortions, thereby causing grain families with varying degrees of constraint to exhibit distinct, fluence-dependent structural responses during photoinduced insulator-to-metal transitions.
This paper presents a community-developed, EMMO-aligned domain ontology for magnetic materials that enables semantic interoperability across multiscale data and tools through a transparent, code-based structure to support FAIR principles and reproducibility in the magnetism domain.
This paper resolves the Landauer paradox in ferroelectric switching by demonstrating that the intrinsic critical nucleus is a three-dimensional polar skyrmion, which suppresses depolarization energy through topological charge compensation, thereby reconciling theoretical predictions with experimental coercive fields and overturning the established Janovec-Kay-Dunn law.
This study employs a two-dimensional electro-chemo-mechanical continuum model to demonstrate that mechanical stress variations around surface protrusions, rather than surface roughness alone, are the primary driver of nonuniform lithium deposition in all-solid-state batteries, providing critical insights for engineering interlayers to enhance battery reliability.
This study demonstrates that solvation qualitatively alters water dissociation at graphene single vacancies by enabling two competing acidic and basic pathways absent in the gas phase, thereby revealing unexpectedly rich interfacial chemistry with significant implications for carbon functionalization and nanofluidic transport.