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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 employs atomistic simulations to reveal how size-dependent surface coordination and ligand passivation govern the electronic structure of stoichiometric HgTe quantum dots, demonstrating that neutral ligands effectively eliminate localized surface states and offer a chemical handle for engineering frontier states relevant to mid-infrared optoelectronics.
This paper numerically validates a nonlinear elasticity theory by demonstrating that shear banding in amorphous solids arises from a screened soft mode instability driven by topological screening and nonlinear coefficients, fundamentally distinguishing the phenomenon from fracture.
This study demonstrates that dimensional confinement in ultrathin diamane films, rather than intentional doping, can effectively stabilize the neutral charge state of group-IV vacancy color centers in diamond while preserving their favorable magneto-optical properties.
This study identifies monolayer VO with a buckled Lieb structure as a robust room-temperature 2D altermagnet that exhibits structural stability, auxetic behavior, a large momentum-dependent spin splitting of 1.2 eV, and significant intrinsic spin Hall conductivity.
This paper proposes an information-theoretic approach for predicting the phase stability of chemically disordered alloys by combining alchemical Monte Carlo sampling with a Graph Convolutional Neural Network model and an information entropy-based metric, demonstrating its effectiveness across binary to quinary systems where conventional methods face computational challenges.
This paper demonstrates that rolling a two-dimensional -wave altermagnet into a nanotube transforms its momentum-dependent spin splitting into a chiral-angle-controlled one-dimensional splitting following a dependence, thereby establishing dimensional projection as a general strategy for engineering spin-split quantum states in low-dimensional magnetic materials.
This study demonstrates that partial substitution of Gd³⁺ with smaller Er³⁺ ions in zircon-type Gd₁₋ₓErₓVO₄ systematically tunes lattice parameters and magnetic interactions, effectively optimizing the low-temperature magnetocaloric performance for cryogenic refrigeration, with the Gd₀.₉Er₀.₁VO₄ composition achieving a maximum magnetic entropy change of 45.1 J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹ under a 7 T field.
This paper demonstrates that bilayer WSe is the optimal channel for valley-engineered gate-all-around transistors because its near-thermal K- valley degeneracy at room temperature enables simultaneous enhancement of on-current and suppression of off-current via strain, while maintaining a subthreshold swing near the thermionic limit.
This review outlines how artificial intelligence can overcome current limitations in studying the instability of 3D all-inorganic halide perovskites by structuring research into four key tasks—stability diagnosis, mechanism analysis, reliability modeling, and engineering enhancement—while proposing future directions for standardized data, interpretable models, and integrated automated experimentation.
This study demonstrates that the layer-parity-dependent surface polarization in NbCl, arising from its intrinsic breathing kagome lattice symmetry breaking, enables direct control over adjacent excitonic emission in van der Waals heterostructures through tunable interfacial band alignment and charge transfer.