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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 establishes symmetry-based guidelines for nonmagnetic crystals hosting the coexistence of charge-three and charge-one Weyl points, identifying specific boron allotropes that realize this unique eight-node configuration and demonstrating how structural chirality and symmetry breaking govern their topological properties.
This paper introduces an improved quantitative modeling strategy that utilizes alchemical decoupling and Gibbs free energy of solvation to accurately calibrate potential energy surfaces, thereby resolving discrepancies with experimental results by predicting significantly higher desolvation barriers and revealing that solvent monolayers often persist between aggregated 2D material layers.
This paper introduces persistent Mayer homology (PMH) as a novel topological descriptor that captures geometric variability in local coordination cores of metal-organic frameworks and polyoxometalates, demonstrating that combining PMH with element-resolved persistent homology significantly improves the prediction of adsorption and self-diffusion properties compared to conventional methods alone.
This paper presents a trust-limited, Gaussian-process-assisted Nudged Elastic Band workflow that accelerates the calculation of small-polaron hopping barriers in rutile TiO2 by combining controlled surrogate extrapolation with targeted first-principles sampling, achieving highly reproducible energy barriers and force convergence across various system sizes.
This study demonstrates a reversible method to expand conducting, non-polar domain walls into three-dimensional functional regions within polar epitaxial tungsten trioxide () via localized electric-field-induced heating, thereby enabling dynamic switching between the distinct properties of domains and domain walls for reconfigurable oxide electronics.
This paper employs a WKB approach to theoretically investigate how screened and unscreened Coulomb potentials from charged impurities modify the Landau level energy spectrum in gapped graphene under a magnetic field, revealing significant dependence on sample-to-gate distances below 50 nm.
Using molecular dynamics simulations, this study demonstrates that while thermal fluctuations soften the yield stress of glasses across all stability levels following a universal law, the magnitude of this softening at shear start-up is strongly dependent on the glass's stability, with highly stable glasses exhibiting significantly less sensitivity to temperature than poorly annealed ones.
This study demonstrates that while sputtered and annealed Cu(001) surfaces appear identical via standard LEED and XPS diagnostics, only the annealed surface yields valid angle-resolved photoemission spectra, revealing that conventional surface characterization methods can fail to detect sputtering-induced defects that destroy the electronic momentum resolution required for ARPES.
This study demonstrates that minute cobalt doping in MnSn single crystals induces a field-driven crossover from a first-order to a second-order magnetic phase transition and enhances the magnetocaloric effect, leading to a revised magnetic phase diagram.
This paper proposes three complementary, experimentally testable definitions of thixotropy to distinguish it from ordinary nonlinear viscoelastic behavior and establish a clear, phenomenological framework for its classification within rheological taxonomy.