2858 papers
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 analytically investigates the spin wave dispersion and dielectric response in multiferroic materials with cycloidal spin structures, revealing how magnetoelectric coupling and the equilibrium wave vector influence anisotropy contributions and potentially induce instability.
This study demonstrates the epitaxial growth of high-quality, ultrathin bismuth-substituted yttrium iron garnet (BiYIG) films with tunable magnetic anisotropy and low damping via strain engineering and growth parameter optimization, highlighting their potential for advanced spin-orbitronic and magnonic devices.
This paper reviews and extends the generalized Keffer form of the Dzyaloshinskii constant by combining three known contributions and suggesting a fourth, analyzing their macroscopic consequences for spin, momentum, and polarization evolution while also proposing an analogous form for the exchange integral in symmetric Heisenberg Hamiltonians.
This paper presents the development of a deep prior-based denoising system integrated into a micro-focused soft X-ray ARPES setup at SPring-8, which effectively removes noise and significantly reduces measurement time to approximately 40 seconds while maintaining high statistical accuracy and energy resolution.
This study demonstrates through 3D quantum wave packet calculations that bilayer graphdiyne membranes exhibit enhanced quantum transport and interlayer-separation-dependent resonances compared to monolayers, suggesting their superior potential for isotope separation applications.
This study employs a hierarchical approach combining density functional theory and custom-trained machine-learned interatomic potentials to perform high-throughput crystal structure prediction of zinc imidazolate, successfully identifying thousands of new energy minima and topologies while validating the method against experimental data and proposing promising candidates for future synthesis.
This study uses density functional theory to demonstrate that specific multi-component cubic halide perovskite alloys can simultaneously exhibit negative mixing enthalpy and rare upward band gap bowing due to s-s orbital repulsion, enabling the design of stable alloys with band gaps larger than any of their individual constituents.
This study establishes practical thin-film synthesis routes for -carbide type iron nitrides in Fe-W-N and Fe-Mo-N systems, revealing that Fe-Mo-N offers a broader stability window and exhibits tunable ferromagnetism dependent on stoichiometry, unlike the more compositionally restricted Fe-W-N.
This paper proposes a novel symmetry-driven generative framework that combines large language models for chemical semantics with a linear-complexity heuristic beam search to rigorously enforce algebraic consistency in Wyckoff patterns, thereby overcoming the combinatorial bottleneck in crystal structure prediction to achieve state-of-the-art performance in discovering new materials without relying on existing databases.
This study characterizes the 2017 Mukundpura CM2 carbonaceous chondrite from Rajasthan, India, using high-resolution microscopy and Raman spectroscopy to confirm the presence of 3–5 nm nanocrystalline diamonds alongside graphitic carbon and abundant iridium, offering insights into stellar evolution and the geological impact anomalies associated with mass extinctions.