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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.
First-principles calculations and simulations reveal that stable noncollinear ferrimagnetic NbMnX ( = S, Se, Te) monolayers exhibit colossal spin-lattice-charge coupling, enabling significant magnetically tunable elastic, thermal, and electronic properties that make them promising multifunctional platforms for two-dimensional spintronics, nanomechanics, and thermal control.
This paper challenges the prevailing view that large polarons are responsible for defect tolerance in lead-halide perovskites by highlighting ambiguities in structural evidence, the complex role of dimensionality and coupling channels, and the lack of direct proof linking polaron screening to defect protection, ultimately proposing new experiments to clarify carrier behavior across relevant excitation densities.
This study demonstrates that increasing hydrogen-bond density in neopentane-derived plastic crystals systematically shifts the dominant mechanism of their order-disorder phase transition from orientational disordering to robust lattice vibrations, providing a molecular design strategy to tailor the pressure sensitivity and magnitude of their caloric responses for thermal energy storage and cooling applications.
This study demonstrates the creation and magnetic-field-tunable control of Majorana zero modes within stacked vortex structures of stoichiometric BiTe/FeTe heterojunctions, establishing a patterned superconducting platform for fault-tolerant topological quantum computation.
This paper proposes and theoretically validates the electric Edelstein effect in two-dimensional systems, where crossed electric fields generate gate-tunable spin polarization in a wide range of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials, offering a new symmetry-guided route for electrical spin manipulation and multistate spintronics.
This paper reports the first successful growth of high-quality single crystals of the candidate altermagnet CrNbS and characterizes its hexagonal structure, antiferromagnetic transition at 141 K, and non-trivial magnetotransport properties, establishing it as a vital experimental platform for studying altermagnetism.
This study establishes symmetry-based guidelines for nonmagnetic crystals hosting the coexistence of charge-three and charge-one Weyl points, identifying specific boron allotropes that realize this unique eight-node configuration and demonstrating how structural chirality and symmetry breaking govern their topological properties.
This paper introduces an improved quantitative modeling strategy that utilizes alchemical decoupling and Gibbs free energy of solvation to accurately calibrate potential energy surfaces, thereby resolving discrepancies with experimental results by predicting significantly higher desolvation barriers and revealing that solvent monolayers often persist between aggregated 2D material layers.
This paper introduces persistent Mayer homology (PMH) as a novel topological descriptor that captures geometric variability in local coordination cores of metal-organic frameworks and polyoxometalates, demonstrating that combining PMH with element-resolved persistent homology significantly improves the prediction of adsorption and self-diffusion properties compared to conventional methods alone.
This paper presents a trust-limited, Gaussian-process-assisted Nudged Elastic Band workflow that accelerates the calculation of small-polaron hopping barriers in rutile TiO2 by combining controlled surrogate extrapolation with targeted first-principles sampling, achieving highly reproducible energy barriers and force convergence across various system sizes.