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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 study demonstrates that the inability of 2-ethyl-1-hexanol to form highly stable vapor-deposited glasses under normal conditions is caused by its extremely limited surface mobility, which is over 10,000 times lower than that of ethylcyclohexane and requires significantly slower deposition rates to overcome.
This paper reports the discovery of fractional magnonic frequency combs in a high-quality magnetic sphere, where a detuned microwave drive compresses conventional integer frequency spacings via parametric three-magnon scattering to create high-density spectral grids with potential applications in precision metrology.
This study demonstrates that vapor-deposited stable glasses of the organic semiconductor TPD transform into supercooled liquids via propagating fronts with velocities dependent on substrate temperature but independent of activation energy, revealing that liquid mobility and glass structure are distinct factors governing thermal stability and suggesting universal behavior across glassformers.
This study demonstrates that symmetry breaking in a SrTiO thin film with a nanoscale interfacial dislocation network enables THz-induced phonon mode mixing and the generation of novel collective vortex-like modes, revealing a new pathway to control dynamical functional properties through real-space topology engineering.
This paper introduces a novel training approach for empirical interatomic potentials based on comparing second- and third-order irreducible derivatives with density functional theory calculations, demonstrating its superior accuracy in predicting phonon dispersion and thermal conductivity for ThO and UO compared to existing models.
This paper presents a hybrid Molecular Dynamics and Variance-Constrained Semi-Grand Canonical method that successfully generates realistic, deeply supercooled multi-component ZrCu(Al) metallic glass samples, enabling the investigation of their dynamics, stability, and rheology in temperature regimes inaccessible to conventional simulations.
This first-principles study utilizes density functional theory to reveal how specific point defects and impurities, such as oxygen and carbon, hinder shallow doping in cubic boron arsenide, while identifying the AsB antisite pair as beneficial for both p- and n-type doping, thereby providing critical insights for optimizing BAs-based electronics.
By integrating machine learning, cluster expansion, and first-principles calculations to decouple many-body interactions, this study reveals that oxygen vacancies in CeO2(111) preferentially aggregate in the third oxygen layer due to geometric relaxation, a finding derived from extensive Monte Carlo sampling that offers a novel framework for understanding vacancy structures in metal oxides.
This paper introduces MOSP, a free and open-source graphical user interface package that integrates multiscale structure reconstruction and kinetic Monte Carlo models to simulate the dynamic structure and reactivity of metal nanoparticles under operando conditions.
This paper demonstrates that while structural symmetry breaking alone fails to explain the insulating state of Nb3Cl8 due to its partially occupied flat band, a cooperative mechanism involving both structural and magnetic symmetry breaking successfully lowers the system's energy to produce the observed insulating phase within density functional theory.