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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 study demonstrates that the chirality of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in ultrathin ferromagnetic trilayers can be reversed solely by varying the ferromagnetic layer thickness, a phenomenon attributed to interface-driven structural relaxations and supported by both experimental observations and ab initio calculations.
This paper introduces an improved deorbitalization method for the r²SCAN exchange-correlation functional that resolves issues of potential roughness and constraint violation, thereby achieving significant computational speedups for solid-state calculations while enhancing accuracy for both solids and molecules compared to previous approaches.
Using synchrotron x-ray diffraction in laser-heated diamond anvil cells, researchers discovered that hexagonal close-packed (hcp) water ice, rather than the previously assumed face-centered cubic (fcc) structure, becomes the dominant phase under the high-pressure and high-temperature conditions found in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, a finding that may significantly impact planetary dynamo models and ice mantle dynamics.
By combining computational modeling and high-pressure experiments, this study reveals that hydrogen-filled ice (C2 phase) exhibits a unique "dual quantum locking" mechanism where ultra-short host-guest interactions induce low-pressure orientational ordering and structural transformations, establishing it as a promising platform for designing hydrogen-rich quantum materials.
This study employs atomistic modeling to demonstrate that exotic nanophase iron delivered by micrometeoroid impacts forms distinct, momentum-aligned spatial clusters, providing a new diagnostic criterion to differentiate it from in-situ formed nanophase iron and refine the interpretation of lunar space weathering.
This study establishes a high-throughput, data-driven methodology that correlates fabrication parameters and microstructural features across thousands of Josephson junctions to identify specific structural origins of two-level system defects, ultimately achieving a two-thirds reduction in defect density through optimized electrode fabrication.
This study establishes lattice distortion as an active control parameter that couples with cation disorder to reshape Li+ percolation networks beyond the traditional 0-TM rule, enabling the design of high-capacity cation-disordered rocksalt cathodes with experimentally validated performance.
This study reports the on-surface synthesis and atomic-scale characterization of antiferromagnetic S=1/2 quantum spin rings composed of [2]triangulene units on Au(111), revealing that while planar six-membered rings exhibit uniform excitation gaps describable by a Heisenberg model, distorted five-membered rings display asymmetric spin ground states due to structural distortion-induced degeneracy lifting.
This paper reports the successful epitaxial growth of high-quality, centimeter-scale -MnTe thin films on InP(111) substrates via molecular beam epitaxy and demonstrates their robust altermagnetic character through the observation of a pronounced anomalous Hall effect despite a near-zero net magnetic moment.
This study demonstrates that strain-induced nanoscale ripples in ultrathin SbTe on graphene close the hybridization gap of the flat interface, transforming the system from a gapped state into a complex "Helical Metal" with restored spin polarization and dense minibands, thereby offering a geometric pathway to engineer advanced spintronic states.