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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 the existence of a "single-molecule mixture" state, characterized by molecules with different structures, within realistic synthetic or natural polymer systems through model construction and mathematical analysis.
This paper proposes a minimal model based on a parent Chern band to demonstrate that rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can host a variety of correlated phases, including chiral topological superconductivity and its non-Abelian Moore–Read generalization via composite fermions.
Using terahertz emission spectroscopy, this study investigates spin-to-charge current conversion in altermagnetic thin films, concluding that the observed anisotropic signals are primarily driven by the inverse spin Hall effect rather than the altermagnetic inverse spin-splitter effect.
The study demonstrates that Eu-doped infinite-layer nickelates exhibit a magnetic-field-induced re-entrant superconducting phase in the over-doped regime, providing a new platform for exploring the interplay between magnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.
This paper demonstrates through first-principles calculations that spin-orbit torque can electrically switch the Néel order and layer-resolved Chern marker in antiferromagnetic bilayers, offering both dissipationless in-gap control and enhanced current-induced switching via doping.
This study demonstrates that plasma-assisted synthesis, by tuning the O2 and H2O discharge environment, allows for the precise engineering of oxygen vacancy and hydroxyl defect landscapes in NiO thin films, thereby modulating ligand hole states and covalency to optimize the material's electronic structure for water oxidation catalysis.
This study demonstrates that nanosecond pulsed irradiation synchronized with Semiconducting Barrier Discharges enhances plasma emission and the reduced electric field through photoconductive coupling, where the specific wavelength-dependent absorption length determines whether photogenerated carriers are efficiently separated at the SiO-Si interface or lost in the silicon bulk.
This paper demonstrates that coupling a thin-film orbital Dirac semimetal to a generic spin-texture can generate a wide range of topological phenomena, including Weyl semimetals with anomalous Hall and chiral magnetic effects, Lifshitz-like transitions, and the emergence of momentum-space nodal spheres under time-dependent driving.
By employing a pseudo-arclength numerical continuation framework on machine-learned models of amorphous carbon, the authors demonstrate that structural avalanches can be decomposed into individual shear transformations and resolved through their underlying energy landscape, revealing a latent structure prior to onset and providing an event-driven method for studying avalanche dynamics.
Using -ARPES, this study demonstrates that NiPS exhibits many-body multiplet structures at the valence-band edge that cannot be explained by mean-field DFT+ calculations, proving that the material's electronic properties are driven by complex local Ni-S quantum correlations.