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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 demonstrates the coherent strong coupling of two individual permalloy stripes to a superconducting microwave resonator, utilizing their shape anisotropy and a single external magnetic field to independently tune their ferromagnetic resonance frequencies without the need for local bias coils.
By integrating multi-scale characterization techniques, this study reveals that the dehydration of sodium sulfate decahydrate proceeds through distinct nucleation-controlled and phase-boundary-controlled regimes, establishing a link between crystallographic symmetry changes and resulting microstructures to predict dehydration pathways for designing advanced thermal energy storage materials.
This paper presents a fully ab initio scheme based on +BSE to compute exciton-exciton transient absorption spectra, demonstrating that this technique can detect various dark exciton populations in monolayer MoS by revealing complex transition signatures arising from multiple valleys and spin states that differ significantly from standard interpretations.
Using first-principles electronic structure theory, this study demonstrates that topological orbital moments (TOMs) can be distinguished from spin-orbit induced contributions in ultra-thin magnetic films by comparing non-trivial spin textures like the triple-Q state with trivial counterparts, revealing that TOMs provide a significant, detectable signal in spin-compensated systems where spin-orbit effects are nearly canceled.
This first-principles study reveals that while both fluorine and chlorine act as shallow donors in GaO, chlorine is a superior donor candidate for (AlGa)O alloys and pure AlO because it resists deep-level -center formation and maintains relatively shallow transition levels even at high aluminum concentrations, despite challenges posed by high formation energies and self-compensation.
This study characterizes the fine structure of the M-center in silicon by identifying multiple temperature-dependent photoluminescence lines, distinguishing a second excited state from other nearby emission features that likely originate from distinct defects or perturbed configurations.
This paper proposes and verifies a model describing how self-coherence, characterized by a specific self-coherence length arising from intrinsic phase fluctuations in single-electron inelastic scattering, limits the visibility of phase contrast in energy-filtered high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, establishing a distinct visibility limit separate from ensemble-coherence or counting-statistical noise.
This paper introduces quantum dot colloidosomes as reconfigurable microlasers that utilize whispering-gallery-mode feedback for efficient lasing and can be triggered to structurally collapse via various stimuli, thereby switching their optical output from narrow cavity-defined lasing to broadband emission while simultaneously releasing their payload.
This study reveals that negative disclinations in 2D crystals like graphene break charge-conjugation symmetry by exhibiting sublinear energy scaling and long-range attraction, leading to fundamentally different morphological behaviors compared to their positive counterparts.
This study demonstrates that spin-to-charge conversion in sputtered MoTe/Py heterostructures is predominantly governed by the interfacial Rashba-Edelstein effect rather than bulk transport, as evidenced by thickness-independent spin-torque efficiencies observed via spin-pumping and spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements.