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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 demonstrates that the quantum metric serves as a sensitive geometric probe for persistent spin helices by revealing a divergence caused by a hidden line degeneracy at the balanced spin-orbit coupling condition, which is subsequently regularized by higher-order cubic interactions.
Using Vicinal Cellular Automata modeling, this paper demonstrates that the geometric shape of nanopillars—ranging from crystal-symmetry-following structures to universal circular forms—is determined by the spatial distribution of growth potential (local vs. global) and can be effectively manipulated by adjusting temperature and external particle flux.
This study validates continuum dislocation dynamics models by demonstrating their ability to predict unexpected {111} planar dislocation boundaries in FCC metals, which were directly observed for the first time using in situ Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy.
This study reveals that large differential attosecond delays in photoemission from BiTe and BiSe arise from strong energy-dependent variations in final-state dynamics caused by multiple surface scattering, rather than intra-atomic effects or ballistic transport.
Using Brillouin light scattering, researchers determined the complete elastic constants of lead-free double perovskite single crystals Cs2AgBiBr6 and Cs2AgBiCl6 and identified their structural phase transition temperatures at approximately 122 K and 43 K, respectively, based on the lifting of transverse acoustic phonon mode degeneracy.
This study demonstrates that thermal oxidation of mono- and few-layer 2H-MoS₂ induces significant, layer-dependent structural changes confined to the topmost layer, which can be effectively monitored via non-invasive second harmonic generation microscopy supported by theoretical band structure calculations.
This paper extends the two-state, two-timescale (TS2) theory to provide a unified, parameter-free framework that quantitatively describes both the structural -relaxation and the recently observed slow Arrhenius process (SAP) in amorphous polymers by modeling the SAP as the high-temperature limit of cluster-scale relaxation, while also predicting its eventual transition to Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann-Hesse dynamics at lower temperatures.
The study reports the discovery of Cs3V9V9Te13, a novel intermetallic compound featuring a unique vanadium mosaic lattice that exhibits heavy-fermion behavior and a tunable density-wave transition, which can be suppressed via chemical pressure to reveal a quantum-disordered semiconducting state.
This paper introduces a bidirectional learning framework that links local atomic environments to electronic band dispersion in semiconductor heterostructures using atomically resolved spectral functions, enabling both the prediction of electronic bands from atomic structures and the inference of atomic descriptors from spectroscopic data.
This study presents a machine-learning-guided workflow that combines *ab-initio* calculations with the inclusion of dynamically unstable compounds to identify promising boron and carbon-based superconductors, predicting several new candidates with critical temperatures ranging from 4.0 K to 35 K.