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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 presents the fabrication of lead-free sodium niobate bulk acoustic wave resonators operating at ~4 GHz with a high electromechanical coupling factor of 31.3%, achieved by cladding the piezoelectric layer between high band gap insulators to mitigate leakage currents, prevent cracking, and promote a vertically distorted tetragonal phase.
This study demonstrates that in reactively sputtered TiN-AlN multilayer films, the phase transformation of AlN from cubic to hexagonal above a 3 nm thickness, while reducing overall hardness, significantly enhances damage tolerance by promoting crack deflection and a transition from brittle to partially ductile failure.
This paper presents a non-Markovian open quantum system formalism based on four coupled equations of motion to model nonequilibrium electron-phonon interactions, which naturally captures memory effects and dissipative broadening while recovering established theories and accurately benchmarking against exact solutions without requiring two-time correlators.
This study demonstrates that fine-tuning universal machine-learned interatomic potentials, specifically the MACE model, is essential for achieving DFT-level accuracy in modeling the structural reconstruction and vibrational properties of twisted 2D van der Waals bilayers, successfully capturing strain landscapes and phonon spectra that align with experimental observations.
This paper demonstrates that chiral carbon nanotubes exhibit non-universal, chirality-dependent non-equilibrium orbital responses and can function as efficient orbital-angular-momentum filters, with semiconducting variants showing distinct interference patterns when interfaced with metallic contacts.
This study demonstrates that microwave-synthesized SrRu1-xCoxO3 (x = 0.0, 0.05) exhibits a significant positive magnetovolume effect driven by the competition between RuO6 octahedral tilting and the spin-orbit interaction of doped Co2+ ions, with cobalt doping suppressing spontaneous thermal expansion while preserving the maximum magnetovolume magnitude.
This study reports that polycrystalline LaMn1-xCoxO3 samples synthesized via microwave irradiation exhibit dominant anisotropic magnetostriction that peaks at 1221 ppm for the x=0.5 composition due to high-spin Co2+ ions, despite the material's saturation magnetization decreasing monotonically with increasing cobalt content.
This paper resolves the apparent contradiction between gyromorphs and stealthy hyperuniform media by demonstrating that gyromorphs are actually Class III hyperuniform systems, which explains their degraded physical properties—such as the presence of localized states and pseudogaps instead of complete bandgaps—compared to the superior performance of Class I stealthy hyperuniform materials.
This paper proposes that interfacial-melt stability against spinodal decomposition is a critical thermodynamic prerequisite for solid-state synthesis, demonstrating through the Fe-B system that pressure-induced stabilization of the melt explains the experimental synthesis boundary of FeB and suggesting this criterion as a new descriptor for AI-driven materials discovery.
This paper demonstrates that intense terahertz excitation induces a coherent, light-driven ferroelectric state in centrosymmetric PbTe via anharmonic phonon coupling, enabling the deterministic amplification and suppression of polarization through double-pulse protocols.