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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 theoretically demonstrates that in a two-dimensional electron gas under a strong magnetic field, a density perturbation with a power-law tail creates a large "no-go" region of exponentially suppressed current and a rotated Landauer resistivity dipole outside it, with these effects being further modulated by electron viscosity.
This paper introduces SPARSE, an open-source Python framework that significantly reduces the acquisition time for high-resolution SEM imaging of rare microstructural features across large areas by employing a two-stage approach that combines fast initial scanning with selective rescanning of identified regions of interest.
This theoretical study demonstrates that ultrafast energy absorption in crystalline silicon can be precisely controlled by two-color femtosecond double pulses, where the optimal wavelength combination and underlying excitation mechanisms shift from multiphoton interband absorption to tunneling ionization and intraband acceleration depending on the laser intensity regime.
This paper presents a method to determine the Fermi energy of diamond by analyzing the relative populations of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) and silicon-vacancy (SiV) center charge states via photoluminescence spectroscopy, leveraging density-functional-theory calculations to achieve high spatial and temporal resolution in various environments.
Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and first-principles theory, researchers demonstrate that an external electric field can deterministically control hydrogen-bond networks in monolayer ice on graphite by redistributing interfacial charge, enabling reversible switching between wetting and non-wetting states, continuous lattice strain, and collective dipolar inversion.
This article proposes that symmetry breaking in the non-interacting Kohn-Sham system can qualitatively explain strong correlation effects by lifting near-degenerate states and reducing the density of states at the Fermi level, thereby enabling the description of strongly correlated metals within standard DFT and introducing a correlation parameter () to distinguish between strongly and normally correlated systems.
This study demonstrates that large-angle convergent-beam electron diffraction (LACBED), utilizing a dual lattice basis approach to bypass the need for a metric tensor, can effectively and unambiguously determine the Burgers vectors of dislocations in monoclinic -GaO crystals, with results validated by weak-beam dark-field imaging.
This paper reviews the 30-year evolution from the 1996 discovery of femtosecond laser-induced demagnetization to the emergence of ultrafast spintronics, highlighting how controlling angular momentum flow on femtosecond timescales enables energy-efficient, high-speed magnetization switching for next-generation information processing.
This study demonstrates that thermodynamic surface reconstruction, rather than homogeneous mixing assumptions, is essential for accurately predicting the catalytic behavior of high-entropy alloys by revealing how surface segregation creates chemically selective interfaces that align with experimental activity landscapes.
This first-principles study reveals that the electronic structure of the spin-orbit-coupled metal PbReO is characterized by highly anisotropic quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surfaces and nearly dispersionless molecular-orbital-induced flat bands, which together provide a microscopic explanation for its experimentally observed anisotropic transport and successive phase transitions.