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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.
Researchers successfully synthesized the bulk quantum magnet M-YbTaO4, featuring a geometrically frustrated stretched diamond lattice of spin-1/2 Yb3+ ions that exhibits no long-range magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K, by utilizing high-pressure conditions to stabilize this phase and its entire YbNbxTa1-xO4 solid solution, which are inaccessible via ambient-pressure methods.
This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of a frequency- and time-resolved single-molecule fluorescence quantum light spectroscopy (SMFg2-QLS) on IDTBT polymer chains, successfully measuring second-order quantum coherence functions that reveal non-trivial excited state dynamics and suggest the presence of intrinsic quantum coherence.
By employing time-resolved optical techniques to reshape the free-energy landscape of SnTe, this study reveals a non-adiabatic decoupling between nonlinear polarization dynamics and harmonic lattice motion, providing a unified framework for understanding the mixed displacive and order-disorder nature of ferroelectric soft modes.
By combining a nanoscale band insulator capping layer with an ex situ ozone anneal, this study demonstrates a reliable method to stabilize oxygen stoichiometry in helimagnetic SrFeO3 thin films, thereby preserving their metallic state and enabling reproducible investigation of their unusual helimagnetism.
This paper introduces MAESTRO, a multi-agent large language model framework that autonomously iterates through reasoning, proposal, and reflection to discover high-performance single atom catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction, successfully identifying novel design principles that break conventional scaling relations.
By engineering the interfacial exchange coupling between ferromagnetic SrRuO₃ and LaCoO₃, this study demonstrates the induction of noncollinear spin stripes and magneto-transport anisotropy while suppressing skyrmion formation, highlighting the potential of interfacial design to control spin textures in topological-like ruthenate superlattices.
Using first-principles simulations, this study investigates the structural, mechanical, and electronic properties of various halide perovskite monolayers, revealing the thermodynamic and mechanical instability of the ABX4 stoichiometry, strong mechanical anisotropy driven by Pb–X covalent bonding, and electronic characteristics similar to 3D counterparts but with larger band gaps and spin splitting in non-symmetric phases.
This study reveals that despite cation off-centering and disorder, AgBiS2 exhibits intrinsic band-like transport due to its close-packed structure, suggesting that carrier localization in nanocrystal films is driven by extrinsic factors rather than inherent material properties.
The paper introduces MBD-ML, a pretrained message passing neural network that directly predicts atomic coefficients and polarizabilities from structures to enable efficient, accurate, and seamless integration of many-body dispersion interactions into various electronic structure codes and force fields without intermediate electronic calculations.
This paper demonstrates that optimizing the defect density and interfaces of piezoelectric films in high-overtone bulk acoustic-wave resonators enables phonon lifetimes up to 400 μs and a record hybrid quantum coherence cooperativity of , establishing a new milestone for circuit quantum acoustodynamics devices.