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 study demonstrates that Superhydrophobic Sand (SHS) mulch significantly reduces soil evaporation in arid regions by shifting the process from a temperature-controlled regime to a diffusion-limited one, with effectiveness governed by mulch thickness and soil thermal properties.
This study presents a high-throughput computational framework that successfully identifies seven bifunctional organic semiconductors, including an optimal candidate with 36.1% predicted power conversion efficiency and strong protein-binding affinity, by balancing photovoltaic performance against synthetic accessibility.
This article proposes that dynamically self-organizing systems, ranging from solidifying metals to bird flight, consistently select pathways that maximize the entropy generation rate to redistribute internal energy, form patterns, and maintain system resilience.
This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates two independent optical methods for absolute primary nanothermometry using rare-earth-doped nanoparticles, which determine temperature solely from the internal population dynamics of Stark sublevels without external references, thereby enabling single-ion, wide-range thermal sensing at the nanoscale.
This study demonstrates that accounting for out-of-plane conductivity in layered materials like PtTe is crucial for accurate spin transport evaluation, as conventional isotropic assumptions significantly overestimate key parameters such as the out-of-plane spin diffusion length and spin Hall conductivity.
This study provides direct spectroscopic evidence of tunable plasmonic polarons in self-intercalated 1T-TiS2, demonstrating that electron-plasmon coupling creates composite quasiparticles whose energy scales can be controlled by carrier density and temperature, distinct from conventional electron-phonon polarons.
This study employs first-principles calculations and cluster dynamics to reveal that hydrogen-induced vacancy stabilization, driven by electronic structure differences such as d-band width and disorder, significantly enhances hydrogen-assisted creep in BCC Fe compared to FCC Fe and Fe-Cr-Ni alloys.
This study experimentally validates the robustness of chiral edge states in Chern insulator MnBi2Te4 devices by demonstrating that quantized Hall transport persists even when the edge channel is severed by engineered geometric defects created via AFM nanomachining.
This study demonstrates that hydrostatic pressure induces a divergent response in the layered perovskite (4FPEA)SnBr, where the band edge emission redshifts while the self-trapped exciton emission anomalously blueshifts due to pressure-modified exciton-phonon coupling, a phenomenon absent in its iodide analogue due to differences in lattice rigidity and dielectric screening.
This paper proposes the spin-rotation quantum geometric tensor as a novel probe to experimentally access the intrinsic geometry of persistent spin textures by demonstrating that it generates a unique, direction-independent nonlinear gyrotropic current, thereby overcoming the limitations of conventional geometric measurements in these systems.