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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 confined-space chemical vapor deposition strategy that enables the deterministic, scalable synthesis of high-quality Mo(W)Te2 single crystals, alloys, and seamless lateral/vertical heterostructures with atomically sharp interfaces, overcoming the structural limitations of exfoliated samples to advance quantum and topological device platforms.
This study demonstrates that chemical functionalization of silicon nitride resonators via TMCS silanization, which targets surface hydroxyl groups, significantly enhances mechanical quality factors by up to 50%, thereby identifying surface hydroxyls as a primary source of energy loss in nano-scale devices.
This study combines thermodynamic, muon spin rotation, neutron diffraction, and first-principles calculations to reveal that the nearly perfect triangular-lattice antiferromagnet MnSnBO exhibits long-range magnetic order below 1 K characterized by coexisting static order and persistent spin dynamics, alongside unconventional low-energy excitations.
This paper presents a wide-field nonlinear microscopy technique based on sum-frequency generation that enables the direct, polarization-selective imaging of in-plane vector fields of propagating surface phonon polaritons, overcoming the limitations of traditional near-field methods that primarily detect out-of-plane components.
This paper analyzes the many-body behavior of doped graphene nanoribbons by mapping extended and on-site Hubbard models to a Kanamori model, revealing that specific ribbon parameters can induce open-shell, high-spin states leading to shell- and spin-blockade responses relevant for nanoelectronic transport.
This theoretical study demonstrates that inter-band spin-orbit coupling, in conjunction with on-site Coulomb interactions, is a crucial mechanism enabling significant spin polarization exceeding 25% in chiral-induced spin selectivity, thereby addressing limitations of previous single-band models.
This paper derives a current formula within the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) master equation framework for non-interacting systems and establishes the specific conditions under which this formalism recovers the Landauer formula.
This study demonstrates that post-deposition annealing of Ni thin films on 128° Y-cut LiNbO3 substrates induces a temperature-dependent uniaxial magnetic anisotropy driven by magnetoelastic coupling from residual strain, whereas as-grown films remain isotropic with unconventional hysteresis behavior at low temperatures.
This study demonstrates that a synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) trilayer serves as an ideal platform for investigating magnon-phonon coupling within a surface acoustic wave cavity resonator, where field-dependent spectral linewidth modulation reveals a coupling strength of approximately 15.6 MHz and a cooperativity of 0.66.
This paper presents the first implementation of a U(1)×SU(2) gauge-invariant spin-current-density-functional theory (SCDFT) functional within VASP, which successfully captures exchange-correlation spin-torque effects in semilocal functionals by incorporating spin-current density, thereby achieving accuracy comparable to exact exchange methods with efficient computational convergence.