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.
Using spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy on epitaxial Ca(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films, researchers identified an intrinsic, unidirectional charge-stripe order in underdoped iron pnictides that serves as an intermediate electronic phase between nematicity and superconductivity, suggesting charge ordering as a unifying mechanism across high-temperature superconductors.
This paper theoretically predicts and experimentally confirms a novel equilibrium kink-like torsion deformation in magnetoactive elastomer beams under a uniform magnetic field, where the elastic moment is balanced by a magnetoelastic moment arising from non-collinear magnetization within a low-symmetry transition region.
kALDo 2.0 is a scalable, open-source Python package that unifies first-principles and machine-learned potentials to efficiently compute vibrational and thermal transport properties across diverse materials, ranging from ordered crystals to disordered systems, using advanced CPU/GPU-accelerated implementations of the Boltzmann transport equation and quasi-harmonic Green-Kubo methods.
This study details the synthesis and structural characterization of reversible bromine-intercalated WTe2Brx phases and reinvestigates WTe2I, revealing distinct commensurate and incommensurate modulations, a unique room-temperature "breathing" mechanism, and the emergence of metallic flat bands due to anionic intercalation.
This paper develops and validates a thermodynamic theory of hydration and ionic associations in the electrical double layer of water-in-salt electrolytes to explain how solvation environments and reactant distributions influence the expansion of the electrochemical stability window through both bulk activity changes and interfacial reaction kinetics.
This paper demonstrates that internal activity fundamentally restructures thin-film dewetting by decoupling vertical accumulation and lateral rupture into independently regulated dynamical length scales, thereby replacing universal diffusion-limited growth with persistence-driven motion that accelerates coarsening exponents and rupture propagation.
By combining high-field magnetotransport measurements up to 68 T with first-principles calculations, this study confirms the predicted electronic band structure and Fermi surface of the altermagnetic material CrSb through the analysis of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations.
This paper reviews recent advances in two-dimensional magnets and their heterostructures, highlighting how their unique magnetic properties and atomically sharp interfaces enable tunable, energy-efficient spintronic devices for applications ranging from neuromorphic computing to hybrid quantum systems.
This paper demonstrates that intense, resonant terahertz pulses can achieve approximately 30% modulation of efficient second-harmonic generation in bulk -BaBO by transiently deforming the lattice to alter refractive indices and phase-matching conditions, rather than through direct modulation of nonlinear susceptibility.
This paper demonstrates that Bloch-type skyrmions can be stabilized in centrosymmetric two-dimensional magnets through the interplay of in-plane second nearest-neighbor Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and magnetic anisotropy, a mechanism validated by the specific case of Cr2Ge2Te6 monolayers.