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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.
ReciNet is a novel architecture that integrates geometric GNNs with reciprocal space-based Fourier representations to effectively model both short- and long-range interactions, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting various crystalline properties across multiple benchmarks.
This paper demonstrates through nanometer-resolution experiments and theoretical modeling that static friction is not an intrinsic material property but an emergent phenomenon arising from the collective configurational evolution of surface asperities, which generates a friction overshoot as the system transitions toward a steady-state kinetic friction.
This paper identifies that SCAN and r2SCAN functionals struggle with non-compact covalent bonds due to biased electron localization descriptions and proposes the r2SCAN+V approach as a practical solution that significantly improves accuracy across challenging materials like graphene, Fe, Cr₂, and VO₂.
The paper introduces "Randium," a minimal two-dimensional lattice model that demonstrates how universal features of viscous liquid dynamics, such as time-temperature superposition and parabolic scaling, emerge from simple nearest-neighbor rearrangements without requiring elasticity-induced facilitation.
This paper proposes and simulates a scalable spin-qubit architecture in pristine graphene p-n junctions, where strain-induced nanobubbles create tunable double quantum dots that enable coherent spin manipulation via Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman fields, as evidenced by distinct avoided crossings and detuning-dependent Rabi oscillations.
This paper proposes a statistical mechanics framework modeling organic mixed conductors as a lattice gas in the grand canonical ensemble, successfully describing their unique charge carrier modulation, vapor–liquid-like phase transitions, and history-dependent metastability as alternatives to conventional semiconductor theories.
This study employs DFT+U calculations to systematically investigate the electronic, magnetic, and optoelectronic properties of the RE2NiMnO6 double-perovskite series, revealing how lanthanide contraction-induced octahedral distortions and the specific treatment of RE 4f electrons collectively govern the material's spin-channel asymmetry and functional potential.
This paper utilizes a first-principles-derived tight-binding model to demonstrate that while long-range hopping quantitatively refines the peak characteristics of shift current conductivity in monolayer SnS, a minimal short-range model successfully captures the essential low-energy nonlinear response features of the bulk photovoltaic effect.
This paper reports a counterintuitive negative temperature coefficient of Gilbert damping in Py/Nd bilayers, where damping decreases with rising temperature due to thermally induced dynamic separation of interfacial and bulk magnetization, a phenomenon that can be tuned via capping layer thickness to enhance spintronic device performance.
This study demonstrates that longitudinal magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is a sensitive tool for characterizing strain-controlled, single-crystal-like magnetic switching and domain dynamics in epitaxial antiferromagnetic LaFeO3 films, establishing a foundation for their application in antiferromagnetic spintronics.