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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 energetic disorder, driven by quantum confinement in monodisperse nanocrystals with long alkyl chain ligands, is the dominant factor limiting exciton transport in lead halide perovskite nanocrystal solids, outweighing the effects of structural disorder.
By engineering a Ruddlesden-Popper dielectric thin film with broken out-of-plane symmetry, researchers have successfully created a low-loss, voltage-tunable parallel-plate varactor that achieves a tenfold improvement in performance at 10 GHz, overcoming previous structural limitations to enable advanced monolithic microwave integrated circuits.
This paper investigates polymer-polymer interdiffusion in both entangled and unentangled regimes with and without a polymeric source using a two-fluid formalism to derive scaling relations and analytical solutions that are validated by numerical simulations, revealing that while a source term disrupts self-similarity, the diffusing front retains similar spatial characteristics.
This paper introduces an interpretable, multi-objective meta-learning framework enhanced with adaptive confidence tuning for Efficient Global Optimization, which significantly outperforms baseline methods in discovering spin-crossover metal-organic complexes by leveraging transferable chemical knowledge and dynamically recalibrating uncertainty estimates.
This study demonstrates that stacking two trivial quintuple layers from the BiTe family can induce controllable quantum spin Hall phases in van der Waals heterobilayers, where the topological edge states can be switched on or off via external strain and electric fields while remaining robust against interlayer twisting.
This paper evaluates the Sample-based Krylov Quantum Diagonalization (SKQD) algorithm on one- and two-dimensional Heisenberg models, demonstrating its ability to accurately reproduce ground-state properties and magnetization curves across various regimes through both classical benchmarks and successful implementation on 18- and 30-qubit quantum hardware.
This paper introduces STENSOR, a new Bilbao Crystallographic Server tool that automatically calculates symmetry-adapted tensors under spin-group symmetry to distinguish between relativistic spin-orbit coupling effects and non-relativistic contributions in magnetic compounds.
This paper introduces Quantum Elastic Network Models (QENMs) by extending a quantum algorithm to two dimensions, demonstrating their ability to efficiently simulate macroscopic graphene sheets with exponential advantages over classical methods in terms of memory and runtime for applications like heat transfer and rippling analysis.
The paper introduces **akaitools**, a Python package designed to parse, structure, and analyze unstructured output from AkaiKKR electronic structure calculations, thereby enabling systematic, high-throughput studies of disordered alloys through features like dataclass-based results, visualization tools, and automated input generation.
This study provides unambiguous experimental evidence of -wave altermagnetism in the material LaOMnSe by demonstrating that -wave-symmetry circular dichroism in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering spectra is an intrinsic consequence of altermagnetic symmetry, thereby resolving previous controversies and establishing a robust spectroscopic method for detecting such magnetic phases.