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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 reports the successful on-surface synthesis and comprehensive characterization of one-dimensional carbon nanostructures featuring periodic graphitic nitrogen substitution, demonstrating their tunable electronic and magnetic properties that transition from an open-shell to a closed-shell ground state upon adsorption on a gold surface.
This study demonstrates that helium-assisted magnetron sputtering enhances the hydrogen sensing performance of copper-doped TiO thin films by promoting nanostructuring and porosity, which significantly increases the sensor response in normal-angle deposition configurations.
This paper demonstrates that combining kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with optimal control theory enables the design of time-dependent temperature and pressure protocols that significantly increase the yield of metastable organic-inorganic interface polymorphs by guiding the system through phase space to avoid thermodynamically stable structures.
This study experimentally demonstrates a length scale effect in contact electrification within permalloy and degenerately doped p-Si heterostructures, where interfacial charge penetration depth varies with film thickness (51 nm for 2 μm vs. full thickness for 400 nm) due to flexoelectricity-mediated screening, ultimately inducing a metal-insulator transition.
This paper proposes a modular, physics-adapted generative AI framework that prioritizes mechanism-informed phase-transition hypotheses over simple structural stability to enable credible discovery of metal-insulator transition materials despite severe label scarcity.
This paper demonstrates a spin-orbit torque-driven synthetic antiferromagnetic oscillator in a nanoconstriction that exhibits both linear eigenmodes and complex nonlinear self-oscillatory dynamics near the spin-flop transition, establishing a promising platform for advanced spintronic signal processing and reservoir computing.
This study employs a first-principles-based atomistic model to characterize the finite temperature properties of the lead-free ferroelectric BiAlO, predicting a rhombohedral ground state with a high Curie temperature of 1160 K and revealing how hydrostatic pressure, uniaxial, and biaxial stresses influence its phase transitions and polarization.
This paper proposes surface functionalization as a symmetry-guided strategy to transform intrinsic 2D antiferromagnets like monolayer FeSe into altermagnets, thereby inducing giant tunnel magnetoresistance and establishing a chemical control knob for high-performance spintronic devices.
This paper investigates how the low-lying rotational bands of Neon-20 arise from a circle of alpha-particle cluster shapes—specifically a triangular bipyramid, square pyramid, and distorted tetrahedron—connected by soft relative motions that extend the Berry pseudo-rotation mechanism.
This study employs density functional theory to demonstrate that orthorhombic B6S and B6Se are dynamically stable, indirect bandgap semiconductors with exceptional mechanical robustness and thermal barrier properties that remain effective under high hydrostatic pressure.