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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 review explores the fundamentals of high-entropy oxides and systematically evaluates their emerging applications as cathodes, electrolytes, and anodes in solid oxide fuel cells, highlighting their potential to overcome key material challenges while outlining current obstacles and future design strategies.
This study reports the growth of high-quality SrRuO3 (111) films with record-low resistivity, revealing an intrinsic low-spin Ru ground state and demonstrating that epitaxial strain can tune the relative contributions of intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms to the anomalous Hall effect.
This paper presents a highly precise and efficient experimental method for determining the ionization energies and work functions of temperature-controlled alkali metal nanoparticles in a beam by combining a stable condensation source, thermalization, tunable photoionization, and automated data analysis using the universal Fowler function.
This study demonstrates that high-resolution photoionization threshold measurements of 7–9 nm sodium and potassium nanoparticles can detect thermal expansion and a distinct melting transition, revealing a melting point suppression of nearly 100 K that aligns with Gibbs-Thomson predictions.
By combining machine learning interatomic potentials with hybrid density functional theory, this study identifies that in-gap states in amorphous GeSbTe primarily arise from structural defects like wrong bonds and specific coordination anomalies, which are depleted during glass aging to explain the mechanism of resistance drift in phase change memory devices.
This study demonstrates that hydrostatic pressure, applied via a cryogenic dual-gated diamond-anvil platform, continuously enhances moiré potentials in twisted bilayer WSe2 to stabilize Stoner ferromagnetism and strengthen Chern insulating states, while also driving a topological phase transition from a Chern insulator to a Mott insulator through a pressure-induced valence-band switching mechanism.
This study reports the experimental observation of two consecutive electric-field-driven topological phase transitions in MoTe2/WSe2 moire heterobilayers, where the system evolves from a geometrically frustrated Mott insulator to a ferromagnetic quantum anomalous Hall state and finally to an antiferromagnetic valley-coherent insulator, demonstrating a tunable platform for correlation-topology intertwined physics.
This paper presents a novel reactive coarse-grained force field, nb-CG-ZIF-FF, derived via multiscale methods that successfully models the self-assembly and structural evolution of ZIF-8 by learning tetrahedral connectivity from atomistic benchmarks without explicit connectivity constraints, thereby offering a scalable approach to study MOF formation and dynamics.
This study employs a comprehensive 3D finite-element optical-electrical simulation to identify CeO2 and P3HT as optimal charge transport layers for Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite solar cells, achieving a theoretical power conversion efficiency of 31.76% and demonstrating 3D physics-based device engineering as a key strategy for overcoming efficiency bottlenecks in lead-free photovoltaics.
This study utilizes terahertz scattering-type near-field optical microscopy to directly measure and quantify the nonlocal nanoscale conductivity of graphene, demonstrating that nonlocal effects significantly influence charge transport even at practical device dimensions and establishing a critical foundation for designing future ultracompact photonic and electronic systems.