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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 introduces a variational reduced-order model that bridges perturbation and variational fracture theories to efficiently simulate 3D brittle crack propagation in heterogeneous media, revealing how disorder intensity and mode mixity govern the transition from smooth to intermittent growth and the crossover between disorder-induced weakening and toughening.
This paper presents a direct-write, low-cost electrochemical AFM lithography method using AC bias to fabricate sub-10 nm graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors with high precision and low defect density, offering a superior alternative to conventional lithographic techniques for next-generation nanoelectronics.
This paper demonstrates the on-demand steering of hyperbolic chiral polaritons in the natural van der Waals metal MoOCl2 using a novel far-field pump-probe microscope, achieving complete propagation switching via light helicity reversal and establishing natural hyperbolic materials as ideal components for reconfigurable nanophotonics.
This paper predicts that altermagnetic tunnel junctions utilizing the orbital-ordered material KV2Se2O exhibit large low-bias negative differential resistance and ultra-high tunneling magnetoresistance with sign inversion, driven by the material's unique quasi-2D Fermi surface under finite bias.
This study employs first-principles simulations to demonstrate that quantum mechanical descriptions of incident electrons are crucial for accurately predicting backscattered electron yields in graphene within a specific energy range around 400 eV, whereas classical point-charge models suffice at higher energies above 600 eV.
By employing slice-and-view scanning electron microscopy to compare ordered double-gyroid and disordered sponge morphologies within the same block copolymer, this study reveals that while both share similar local packing geometry, they are fundamentally distinguished by the intercatenated topology of the gyroid's loops versus the non-intercatenated loops of the sponge, suggesting the latter acts as a disordered variant of a single-gyroidal structure and potentially a kinetic precursor to long-range order.
This paper classifies explicit periodic traveling wave solutions for a regularized Boussinesq equation with cubic nonlinearity, derives their Whitham modulation equations via an averaged variational principle, and analyzes the resulting system's hyperbolicity to demonstrate that the loss of real characteristic speeds leads to modulational instability, a finding verified by numerical spectral computations.
This study reports magnetization and heat-capacity measurements on the ordered-spinel oxide LiNiGeO, identifying it as a rare single-trillium lattice system exhibiting frustrated magnetic correlations with a Weiss temperature near zero and broad heat-capacity features indicative of competing Heisenberg-like and spin-ice-like regimes.
This study reports the successful synthesis of the Cr-analogue of sugilite, KNaCrLiSiO, revealing that Cr ions selectively occupy octahedral sites with negligible antisite disorder and exhibit weak antiferromagnetic interactions without magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K.
This study utilizes two-color pump-probe reflectivity on the metallic van der Waals ferromagnet FeGeTe to reveal non-universal critical slowing of intralayer spin dynamics and an emergent nonequilibrium Fano interference in phonon asymmetry, demonstrating how magnetic order governs the complex interplay between spin, electronic, and lattice degrees of freedom near the Curie temperature.