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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 introduces a novel quantum annealing protocol based on path-integral molecular dynamics that efficiently finds global energy minima in materials by incorporating nuclear quantum effects without explicitly manipulating many-body wavefunctions, demonstrating strong performance across diverse atomic systems simulated with both empirical and machine-learning potentials.
This study demonstrates that epitaxial, L2₁-ordered Co₂MnSi waveguides with impeccable crystalline integrity exhibit intrinsic magnetocrystalline anisotropy that stabilizes magnetization, suppresses nonlinear spin-wave instabilities over a wide frequency range, and enables bias-field-free nonlinear magnonics with high group velocities and ultralow damping.
The paper introduces RamanGPT, a deep-learning framework that utilizes an Atomistic Line Graph Neural Network for predicting Raman spectra from crystal structures and a fine-tuned large language model for inferring crystal structures from Raman spectra, thereby addressing both the forward and inverse problems in materials characterization.
This paper demonstrates a quantitative method for detecting molecular oxygen in gas mixtures using optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) from nitrogen-vacancy centers in fluorescent nanodiamonds, achieving a sensitivity of approximately 1% O2 concentration with a linear response that is limited by surface physisorption dynamics.
This paper presents a first-principles Z+1 method to predict core-level X-ray photoemission spectra of various SnO(110) surface terminations and defect states, demonstrating that the calculated spectra for reduced surfaces with adsorbates align well with experimental measurements and successfully distinguish between different surface chemical environments.
This paper establishes a predictive framework for the deterministic synthesis of specific borophene polymorphs on silver substrates by integrating reactive machine-learned interatomic potentials with grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations to map growth pathways and identify conditions that suppress competing motifs.
This paper demonstrates that the classical Bernoulli principle can be extended to ferroelectric materials, revealing that geometric variations in nanorods govern polarization flux conservation to induce polarization acceleration in constrictions and the formation of complex topological structures like bubbles and Hopfions in expansions.
This study demonstrates the use of multi-directional dark-field neutron tomography as a non-destructive, multi-scale imaging technique to visualize the 3D hierarchical nanoarchitecture and anisotropic orientation of cellulose nanofibrils in solid foams, overcoming the radiation damage and length-scale limitations of conventional X-ray and electron-based methods.
This study reports a comprehensive spectroscopic characterization of highly hydrogenated monolayer graphene on nickel grids, demonstrating that fully -like hydrogenation induces a wide optical band gap of approximately 6.3 eV and distinct -plasmon quenching, while partially hydrogenated samples exhibit mixed morphologies and reduced saturation.
This paper presents a computationally efficient semi-empirical pseudopotential method, fitted to density-functional theory results with minimal parameters, that accurately calculates the band structures and Bloch states of monolayer and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides.