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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 pseudogap phenomenology in doped antiferromagnets, including Fermi arcs and the nodal-antinodal dichotomy, can emerge from mean-field solutions of the 2D Hubbard model where real-space antiphase antiferromagnetic domains interact with metallic interfaces, offering a conceptually simple description of strong correlation effects without requiring nonperturbative methods.
This paper introduces a compact, physically interpretable Topological-Geometrical Descriptor (TGD) that effectively models the relative energies of two-dimensional carbon networks and vacancy-defected graphene, outperforming larger feature sets while maintaining direct structural interpretability.
This paper develops a theoretical framework for the Landau levels of high-fold fermions in honeycomb lattices by combining tight-binding and methods to demonstrate that their quantization uniquely merges Dirac-type behavior from linear band crossings with anomalous quantization arising from the quantum geometry of singular flat bands.
This paper demonstrates that extending force-constant embedding methodology to calculate high-resolution, vibrationally resolved photoluminescence lineshapes in hexagonal boron nitride successfully identifies the neutral carbon trimer () as the source of the 1.54 eV emission, overcoming the limitations of traditional supercell calculations in distinguishing between similar defect candidates.
This study demonstrates that a hybrid approach combining melt-quench molecular dynamics with foundation potentials and reverse Monte Carlo refinement against neutron pair distribution data yields superior amorphous solid-state electrolyte structures that simultaneously preserve local coordination chemistry and medium-range order, overcoming the limitations of using either method alone.
This paper presents a mass-conservative Darcy-Brinkman-Stokes formulation implemented in GeoChemFoam and coupled with PHREEQC, enabling accurate reactive transport simulations with cell-based surface complexation in both resolved and unresolved porous media structures.
This paper introduces a machine-learning-enhanced nonadiabatic molecular dynamics framework to simulate small polaron hopping in TiO and MgO, providing the first direct dynamical confirmation of adiabatic versus nonadiabatic regimes and revealing how material-specific hopping mechanisms govern excited-state relaxation and charge-carrier lifetimes.
This paper demonstrates that post-transfer thermal treatments, termed "atomic ironing," effectively suppress structural disorders in freestanding oxide nanomembranes to restore bulk-like crystallinity and enable the formation of atomically well-defined conformal interfaces in twisted heterostructures.
This study demonstrates through density functional theory that specific non-hexagonal carbon monolayers, particularly Twin T-graphene, exhibit extreme shear compliance driven by symmetry-confined atomic relaxation, achieving a fifty-fold reduction in shear stiffness while maintaining mechanical stability and a semiconducting gap.
This paper establishes proximity to a metal-insulator transition as a general design strategy for engineering correlated-oxide transparent conductors, demonstrating that tuning electronic filling in epitaxial Ti-substituted films optimizes the trade-off between optical transparency and electrical conductivity by balancing broadened optical windows with disorder-assisted spectral weight redistribution near the transition.