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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 a highly stable, eco-friendly, and selective ozone sensor based on lead-free Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite, which operates at room temperature with low energy consumption and demonstrates superior performance through both experimental validation and first-principles calculations.
This study demonstrates that using step-terminated AlO substrates with high miscut angles effectively suppresses antiphase twin defects in epitaxial BiSe by guiding atomic step-edge nucleation, although this control diminishes as the film thickness increases due to overgrowth mechanisms.
This paper presents a comprehensive first-principles atomistic approach using density functional theory to predict the equilibrium morphology of hetero-integrated crystals, which is validated by the strong agreement between its predictions for GaP on Si and experimental Transmission Electron Microscopy observations.
This study demonstrates that ferroelectric polarization switching in an InSe/graphene heterostructure can reversibly control the sign of charge-to-spin conversion coefficients and manipulate in-plane spin textures, offering a promising platform for advanced spintronic devices.
This paper presents a hybrid framework that combines a physics-guided First-Order Shear Deformation Theory model with machine learning and uncertainty quantification to achieve accurate, robust, and data-efficient impact localisation and force estimation in composite plates.
This first-principles study confirms the structural and dynamical stability of the Janus Ti2CSH monolayer and predicts it to be a phonon-mediated superconductor with a critical temperature of 22.6 K, highlighting its potential for quantum and nanoscale applications.
First-principles calculations reveal that the lithiated Janus GaInSLi monolayer is the only stable structure among hydrogenated and lithiated GaXS2 variants, exhibiting phonon-mediated multi-gap superconductivity with a critical temperature of 4.8 K that can be enhanced to 6.2 K via electron doping.
First-principles calculations reveal that two-dimensional hydrogenated graphene (HC6) stabilizes in a robust ferrimagnetic ground state that energetically suppresses the expected phonon-mediated superconductivity, despite its high electronic density of states.
This study demonstrates that Zr-substitution in barium titanate enables chemically programmed, fractionalized topological polarization textures—ranging from stable antiskyrmions and skyrmions in ordered compositions to skyrmion-glass states in random alloys—that remain inducible and reconfigurable from cryogenic to room temperature.
The paper introduces Dara, an automated framework that utilizes exhaustive tree searches and robust Rietveld refinement to reliably identify and refine multiple phases in complex powder X-ray diffraction patterns, thereby reducing manual effort and minimizing misinterpretation in materials characterization.