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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 tunable vanadium dioxide (VO2) metafilms fabricated via low-oxygen furnace oxidation on various substrates, which achieve self-adaptive all-day energy harvesting by functioning as high-efficiency solar absorbers during the day and radiative coolers at night.
This study introduces a chemically neutral minimal binary model that successfully reproduces the key dynamical signatures of superionic conductors, revealing how tuning lattice softness and anharmonicity drives a distinct sublattice-melting phase characterized by fluid-like carrier transport within a rigid host.
This study establishes the first comprehensive electronic phase diagram for fluorine-doped PrFeAsO1-xFx across the full doping range, revealing a dome-shaped superconducting region with a record-high Tc of 52.3 K, structural lattice contraction, and evidence of strong fluctuations and multiband pairing.
This study investigates the corrosion evolution of T91 steel in static lead-bismuth eutectic under high-temperature oxidizing conditions, revealing that corrosion progression is governed by the formation of protective oxide scales and the diffusion of chromium and oxygen, while unexpectedly identifying a surface layer of iron-enriched body-centered cubic phase that contradicts previous findings of purely oxide-based layers.
This paper employs a reformulated Boltzmann transport equation to demonstrate that while non-local transport accelerates apparent thermalization at the irradiated surface by removing athermal carriers, it simultaneously delays the complete equilibration of the entire electron system, revealing a complex interplay between transport and scattering that varies with position and energy.
This paper demonstrates that widely available consumer AI tools can synthesize realistic experimental data for quantum electronic devices by leveraging basic physics equations and signal characteristics, while recommending the sharing of large volumes of primary data as a countermeasure to identify such undisclosed synthetic outputs.
Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and quantum oscillations on the four-layer cuprate Ba2Ca3Cu4O8(F,O)2, this study demonstrates the coexistence of small Fermi pockets and large superconducting gaps, thereby providing microscopic evidence for a BCS-BEC crossover that emerges unexpectedly with increasing carrier density and supports the d-wave pairing mechanism in doped AF-Mott insulators.
This study demonstrates that substituting 50% of indium with gallium in TlInTe induces symmetry-allowed optical-optical avoided crossings that significantly suppress phonon group velocities, thereby reducing the material's lattice thermal conductivity.
First-principles calculations reveal that bilayer Janus 1T-MnSSe possesses an intrinsic A-type antiferromagnetic ground state with robust half-metallicity and tunable magnetic properties via stacking, doping, and strain, making it a promising candidate for room-temperature spintronic applications.
This paper proposes a novel variational phase-field fracture framework that incorporates arbitrary elastic domains and custom strength criteria by introducing a state-dependent dissipation potential, thereby preserving the variational structure while allowing independent control over elastic degradation and crack nucleation under multiaxial stress states.