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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 demonstrates that a minimal resonant-coupling model, where acoustic phonons interact with quasi-localized vibrations, naturally reproduces the observed non-phononic flat band in amorphous solids and clarifies its universal connection to the boson peak.
This study demonstrates that MoSSe/WSSe Janus heterobilayers, through interfacial engineering and intrinsic electrostatic stabilization, effectively suppress strain-induced band-gap transitions and enable tunable shear piezoelectric responses, offering a robust platform for flexible piezotronic applications.
This study reveals that the giant dielectric permittivity in Nb-doped rutile crystals arises from a low-frequency surface barrier-layer effect and a distinct, non-thermally activated overdamped microwave excitation (central mode) that persists down to 10 K, distinguishing it from undoped crystals where such high-frequency contributions are absent.
This paper presents a high-pressure infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory study of Weyl semimetals NbIrTe and TaIrTe, revealing a pressure-induced electronic phase transition at 7–8 GPa characterized by a sharp reduction in free carrier concentration and spectral weight redistribution without a significant structural change.
This study demonstrates that in dry glass-glass contacts, increasing nanoscale roughness reduces friction by suppressing triboelectric adhesion, thereby inverting the classical understanding that smoother surfaces always yield lower friction.
This study demonstrates that twisting bilayer WSe2 to create a moiré superlattice, when encapsulated in hBN, enables precise engineering of the excitonic landscape to enhance interlayer exciton emission and phonon-assisted recombination while suppressing defect-bound signals, offering a new pathway for exploring quantum phenomena in transition metal dichalcogenides.
This paper proposes and theoretically demonstrates that interlayer sliding in twisted bilayers can generate and controllably move topologically protected moiré strain Skyrmions, exhibiting a chirality-dependent Skyrmion Hall effect that offers a low-energy mechanism for chiral information transport.
This study demonstrates that depositing a sub-1 nm silicon dioxide capping layer enables selective area molecular beam epitaxy of III-V semiconductors on highly reactive or non-selective mask materials like and , thereby overcoming the optical limitations of traditional masks without degrading their spectral performance.
This paper proposes a universal expression for the domain-wall width in multi-sublattice Heisenberg magnets by establishing an exact connection between the domain-wall profile and long-wavelength spin-wave dispersion, a framework that accurately predicts widths across various magnetic orders and lattice structures while providing a microscopic foundation for their temperature dependence.
The paper introduces DPA4, a novel SE(3)-equivariant interatomic potential architecture featuring an EMFA SO(2)-equivariant convolution and compiler-friendly training optimizations that achieve state-of-the-art accuracy with significantly reduced parameter counts and training costs, establishing a new accuracy-cost Pareto frontier for large atomistic models.