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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 reports the synthesis and characterization of single-crystal heavy rare-earth RCoAl (R = Gd-Tm, Y) compounds, revealing their orthorhombic structure, antiferromagnetic ordering with complex transitions, and the significant interplay between RKKY exchange and crystal electric field effects that leads to deviations from de Gennes scaling.
This study reports the observation of long-lived dipolar interlayer excitons in a MoSSe/MoSe heterobilayer, demonstrating their potential as a versatile platform for engineering and tuning excitonic interactions in van der Waals materials.
This study employs first-principles calculations to demonstrate that stable Janus InXPbP (X = S, Se, Te) monolayers exhibit tunable giant Rashba spin splitting and optimal band alignments, making them promising candidates for both spintronic devices and high-efficiency photocatalytic water splitting.
This paper addresses the degradation of 2-dimensional electron gas in high-aluminum AlGaN/AlGaN heterostructures caused by high-temperature growth-induced interface intermixing, demonstrating that optimized growth schemes combined with X-ray diffraction analysis can restore sharp interfaces and achieve high-quality 2DEGs with sheet resistivities around 2,500 .
This paper establishes the variational foundations for the elasticity theory of finite deformation in the presence of dislocations, demonstrating that introducing these defects into large-deformation frameworks is nontrivial and results in a force on dislocation segments that deviates from the classical Peach-Koehler force.
SLUSCHI-UP is a web infrastructure that enables accessible, scalable melting-temperature calculations for high-temperature materials by integrating the efficient SLUSCHI workflow with universal machine-learning interatomic potentials and asynchronous GPU execution, achieving screening-level accuracy while reducing computational costs.
This paper demonstrates that in a kagome altermagnet, an emergent orbital chiral flux is essential to break a hidden symmetry and generate finite Berry curvature and anomalous Hall conductivity, establishing a purely orbital mechanism for topological altermagnetism even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling.
By subjecting few-layer CrSBr to magnetic fields up to 55 tesla, this study confirms the existence of distinct bulk and surface excitons through their differing magnetic field responses, specifically a reduced redshift and smaller diamagnetic shift observed in the lower-energy surface exciton resonance.
This paper proposes that mechanoluminescence in inorganic crystals arises from the combination of intrinsic static structural distortion and dynamic elastic distortion induced by mechanical loading, providing a unified explanation for diverse experimental observations such as differences in pressure versus shear sensitivity and the effects of UV irradiation timing.
This study employs density-functional theory to demonstrate that hydrogen solubility in cubic silicon carbide is significantly enhanced by silicon vacancies and carbon-rich amorphous structures compared to pristine crystals, providing critical insights for modeling hydrogen permeation in fusion reactor tritium barriers.