cond-mat.mtrl-sci papers

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.

At Gist.Science, we process every new preprint in this category directly from arXiv to make these complex discoveries accessible to everyone. Our team generates both plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries for each paper, ensuring that researchers, students, and curious minds alike can grasp the latest breakthroughs without getting lost in dense jargon.

Below are the latest papers in condensed matter and materials science, organized by their most recent publication dates.

🔬 materials science

Enhanced reversible barocaloric effect at low pressure in neopentyl plastic crystal solid solutions

By blending pentaglycerine with neopentyl glycol and doping the mixture with pentaerythritol, researchers achieved a seven-fold increase in reversible entropy change and a twenty-fold expansion in operational temperature span at low pressures, demonstrating that multi-component molecular blends are an effective strategy for optimizing plastic crystals as solid-state refrigerants.

Frederic Rendell-Bhatti, Melony Dilshad, Celine Beck, Markus Appel, Alba Prats, Eamonn T. Connolly, Claire Wilson, Lewis (…)2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Ion Jump Motion as the Background for Muon Diffusion in Battery Materials Research Using $μ$ SR

This paper demonstrates that anomalous features in conventional $\mu$ SR analyses of ion diffusion arise from the temperature-dependent ratio between ion and muon jump rates, suggesting that reanalyzing data with an extended Kubo-Toyabe function incorporating Edwards-Anderson autocorrelation is essential for accurately evaluating ion dynamics.

Ryosuke Kadono2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Robust and tunable Floquet altermagnets in sliding A-type antiferromagnetic bilayers

This paper demonstrates that circularly polarized light irradiation enables the robust and tunable realization of altermagnetism in inversion-symmetric A-type antiferromagnetic bilayers, overcoming previous symmetry constraints and allowing for continuous control over altermagnetic states through stacking variations and illumination direction.

Zhe Li, Lijuan Li, Mengxue Guan, Sheng Meng2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

MAD-SURF: a machine learning interatomic potential for molecular adsorption on coinage metal surfaces

The paper introduces MAD-SURF, a machine learning interatomic potential trained on diverse datasets that achieves density functional theory-level accuracy for simulating organic molecule adsorption on coinage metal surfaces while enabling computational speeds orders of magnitude faster.

Manuel González Lastre, Joakim S. Jestilä, Rubén Pérez, Adam S. Foster2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Numerical Diagonalization Study of the Phase Boundaries of the S=2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Orthogonal Dimer Lattice

This study utilizes numerical diagonalization to demonstrate that the intermediate phase between the exact dimer and Néel-ordered phases in the S=2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an orthogonal dimer lattice widens as the spin value increases.

Hiroki Nakano, Toru Sakai, Yuko Hosokoshi2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Multi-Method Li Plating Characterization of a Commercial 26 Ah Li-Ion Pouch-Cell

This study presents a comprehensive, multi-laboratory comparison of electrochemical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques for detecting and characterizing lithium plating on a commercial 26 Ah Li-ion pouch cell, ultimately recommending optical methods for rapid screening with spectroscopic confirmation for reference samples.

Christiane Rahe, Heinrich Ditler, Thorsten Tegetmeyer-Kleine, Marius Flügel, Thomas Waldmann, Margret Wohlfahrt Mehrens (…)2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Clever Materials: When Models Identify Good Materials for the Wrong Reasons

This paper demonstrates that machine learning models for materials discovery often achieve high benchmark performance by exploiting bibliographic confounding factors like author and publication year rather than learning genuine chemical principles, highlighting the urgent need for rigorous falsification tests and dataset redesign to ensure true scientific understanding.

Kevin Maik Jablonka2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Ab initio Monte Carlo prediction of order-to-disorder transitions in multicomponent MXenes

This study employs an improved first-principles Monte Carlo framework to predict that surface termination types and coordination environments critically govern order-to-disorder transitions and chemical segregation patterns in multicomponent (TiMo)-based double transition metal MXenes.

Noah Oyeniran, Chongze Hu2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Observation of Room-temperature Charge Density Wave Correlations via Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy in Sn-doped Kagome Superconductor CsV $_3$ Sb $_5$

Using ultrafast time-resolved reflectivity and synchrotron X-ray diffraction, this study reveals that Sn doping introduces quenched disorder that pins short-range charge density wave correlations in the Kagome superconductor CsV $_3$ Sb $_5$ , allowing these correlations to persist robustly up to room temperature well beyond the long-range order phase boundary.

Qinwen Deng, Andrea Capa Salinas, Suchismita Sarker, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson, Liang Wu2026-02-23

🔬 materials science

Extended Mean-Field Theory for the 2D Hubbard Model in Degenerate Dilute Electron Gases: Fluctuations, Superconducting Dome, and Interaction Mechanisms in Strontium Titanate

This paper presents an extended mean-field theory for the 2D Hubbard model in strontium titanate that successfully reproduces the experimental superconducting dome, elucidates the competition between charge-density-wave and superconducting orders, and provides criteria to distinguish electron-electron from electron-phonon interaction mechanisms in dilute electron gases.

Xing Yang, Xinyu Zhang, Xuchang Zhang2026-02-23

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Enhanced reversible barocaloric effect at low pressure in neopentyl plastic crystal solid solutions

Ion Jump Motion as the Background for Muon Diffusion in Battery Materials Research Using μμμSR

Robust and tunable Floquet altermagnets in sliding A-type antiferromagnetic bilayers

MAD-SURF: a machine learning interatomic potential for molecular adsorption on coinage metal surfaces

Numerical Diagonalization Study of the Phase Boundaries of the S=2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Orthogonal Dimer Lattice

Multi-Method Li Plating Characterization of a Commercial 26 Ah Li-Ion Pouch-Cell

Clever Materials: When Models Identify Good Materials for the Wrong Reasons

Ab initio Monte Carlo prediction of order-to-disorder transitions in multicomponent MXenes

Observation of Room-temperature Charge Density Wave Correlations via Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy in Sn-doped Kagome Superconductor CsV3_33​Sb5_55​

Extended Mean-Field Theory for the 2D Hubbard Model in Degenerate Dilute Electron Gases: Fluctuations, Superconducting Dome, and Interaction Mechanisms in Strontium Titanate

Ion Jump Motion as the Background for Muon Diffusion in Battery Materials Research Using $μ$ SR

Observation of Room-temperature Charge Density Wave Correlations via Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy in Sn-doped Kagome Superconductor CsV $_3$ Sb $_5$