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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.
By engineering superlattices of NdNiO and NdMnO, the study demonstrates that interface-driven charge transfer and symmetry breaking, rather than epitaxial strain alone, induce orbital reconstruction that stabilizes a room-temperature ferromagnetic insulating state via interfacial superexchange.
This study employs GGA+ density functional theory to characterize the ferromagnetic ground state, mixed-valence cerium, and charge transfer in CeCrB, while confirming that the bonding mechanism within its embedded Cr-Cr dimers involves localized states that exhibit molecular-like bonding and antibonding characteristics dependent on the intra-dimer distance.
This paper introduces Full-field Fluorescence Computed Tomography (F3CT), a high-throughput synchrotron-based technique that eliminates raster scanning by utilizing a calibrated virtual cone-beam pinhole geometry and energy-resolving 2D detection to achieve 3D elemental mapping of biological and geological specimens with co-registered structural context.
This study introduces the topological descriptor "linking valence" to demonstrate that it effectively distinguishes the mechanical hardness and structural order of network-forming materials like silica, revealing that quartz's superior hardness stems from significantly higher topological linking compared to amorphous silica and cristobalite, despite their shared tetrahedral building blocks.
This paper introduces a Wyckoff-resolved oxidation-state atlas and assignment utility that significantly expands the coverage of charge-neutral materials discovery by leveraging site-specific formal oxidation states, thereby outperforming traditional composition-only baselines by up to 28.0%.
This paper generalizes the use of nonlinear magnetic susceptibility () as a deterministic protocol for switching time-reversal partners in fully compensated chiral antiferromagnets, providing a first-principles formalism and theoretical validation for the MnXN family.
This paper introduces SLIPSTREAM, a technique utilizing relativistically moving photoexcited carrier fronts in semiconductor waveguides to manipulate THz waves through front-induced transitions, enabling novel effects such as temporal waveform stretching and time-reversal operations.
This study provides direct experimental evidence that a photo-launched coherent transverse optical phonon mode, responsible for ferroelectric order in the 2D semiconductor NbOI2, couples exclusively to above-gap electronic transitions, revealing a new mechanism for mediating physical properties in ferroelectric semiconductors.
This paper introduces the van der Waals ferroelectric semiconductor NbOI2 as a highly efficient, broadband terahertz emitter with giant optical rectification, offering a scalable solution for on-chip near-field spectroscopy of 2D materials that overcomes the traditional mismatch between sample and radiation wavelengths.
This paper reports the generation and uniaxial propagation of coherent ferrons (polarization waves) in the van der Waals ferroelectric material NbOI2, which emit narrow-band terahertz radiation and travel at hypersonic speeds, offering potential applications in THz emission and electric information processing.