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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 investigates how the electrostatic moiré superlattice potentials in graphene/twisted-ferroelectric heterostructures create van Hove singularities that drive resonant absorption and a symmetry-protected linear photovoltaic effect via shift photocurrents.
DISCOVER is an open-source, GPU-accelerated symbolic regression framework designed to discover interpretable, physics-motivated mathematical descriptors by allowing users to incorporate domain knowledge and constrain search spaces within modern Python workflows.
This paper provides a first-principles microscopic explanation for Rashba spin splitting in transition metal dichalcogenides, revealing that the effect arises from a competition between internal polarization and interlayer hybridization and can be characterized by a new orbital polarization imbalance order parameter.
This study demonstrates that the observed circular dichroism (CD) in chiral perovskite thin films is significantly influenced by extrinsic linear dichroism (LD) and linear birefringence (LB) effects caused by crystal orientation, suggesting that these factors must be carefully accounted for to accurately interpret chiroptical properties.
This paper presents a comprehensive, geometrically nonlinear continuum mechanical theory that uses thermodynamics and internal state variables to model the complex deformation, phase changes, and failure mechanisms—such as viscoelasticity, melting, and fracture—of amorphous thermoplastic polymers like PMMA under extreme dynamic loading conditions.
This paper investigates how nonlinear coupling between Higgs-like and Goldstone-like phonon modes in hexagonal can be used to generate and control stable phononic frequency combs through terahertz driving.
This paper evaluates the numerical accuracy and convergence of the Yambo code's GW implementation by comparing the Godby-Needs plasmon-pole model and the multipole approximation against the GW100 benchmark dataset.
Using density functional theory (DFT), this study demonstrates that positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) can effectively distinguish between intrinsic vacancies and oxygen-related defects in 3C-SiC by analyzing their unique annihilation lifetimes, momentum distributions, and charge-state-dependent trapping behaviors.
This paper investigates the scattering and frequency conversion of acoustic waves interacting with single and double spatio-temporal interfaces, analyzing how different velocity regimes (subsonic, intersonic, and supersonic) affect wave behavior through analytical derivations and numerical simulations.
This paper introduces a time-aware framework to compare sequential and manifold Bayesian optimization, demonstrating that the optimal strategy for autonomous materials discovery depends on the balance between synthesis and characterization times.