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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 microscale bending plasticity in amorphous aluminum oxide films is highly dependent on the deposition method and defect distribution, with pulse laser deposited and atomic layer deposited films showing significant ductility while sputter-deposited films fail brittly, though all exhibit similar fracture toughness and lack localized crack tip plasticity.
This first-principles study of the ferrochiral phase transition in BaTiOCu(PO) identifies antiferroically ordered atomic-site electric toroidal dipole moments as the order parameter for antiferroaxial rotations and establishes that the overall chiral order arises from the composite ordering of antipolar electric dipole and electric toroidal dipole moments.
This paper provides answers to questions regarding the physical background, practical handling, and potential applications of mid-infrared photo-induced force microscopy (IR-PiFM), including its use in studying antimicrobial interactions, based on discussions from the April 2026 Faraday Discussions conference.
This paper reports that applying a magnetic field during the synthesis of MnBiTe single crystals stabilizes a metastable ferromagnetic ground state with a Curie temperature of ~12.5 K, effectively reconfiguring the material's spin order and electronic properties while retaining its original crystal structure.
This paper introduces a composition-weighted symbolic regression framework that combines hybrid search algorithms with max/min operators to generate interpretable, analytical expressions for predicting diverse materials properties directly from chemical composition, achieving competitive accuracy against black-box models while revealing chemically meaningful elemental trends.
This study reveals that the non-centrosymmetric AgI (110) surface hosts a robust persistent spin texture and sizable spin-orbital Hall conductivities, establishing halide semiconductors as a new platform for long-lived spin transport and tunable spin-orbit functionalities.
This paper demonstrates the reliable creation of conductive charged domain walls in insulating barium titanate through the combined action of light and electric fields, proposing a mechanism driven by the bulk photovoltaic effect and supported by phase-field simulations for potential use in reconfigurable opto-electronic devices.
This paper presents a unified theoretical framework for weakly disordered spin-1/2 ferromagnets that simultaneously describes the loss of saturation magnetization due to finite-size effects, derives a generalized Bloch equation, and provides a unified expression for spin transport.
This paper proposes and validates a strategy for constructing explicit functionals that directly map Kohn-Sham potentials to charge densities in inhomogeneous materials using homogeneous electron gas data, successfully demonstrating improved accuracy through increasingly sophisticated approximations without solving the Kohn-Sham Schrödinger equation.
This study characterizes the distorted honeycomb magnet as a frustrated high-spin antiferromagnet that exhibits short-range correlations, an unconventional field-induced transition, and exotic behavior near a mean-field tricritical point due to the interplay of competing exchange interactions and weak anisotropy.