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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 reformulates the macroscopic Young equation on molecular grounds using a universal wetting coefficient derived from water's intrinsic hydrogen-bond energetics, thereby revealing wetting as an emergent property of water itself and establishing a predictive framework that unifies wetting, adhesion, and cavitation across diverse surfaces.
This paper uses numerical simulations to demonstrate that while discrete dislocation dynamics models with annihilation rules consistently converge to a PDE accounting for annihilation, models without collision rules exhibit inconsistent convergence behavior, highlighting the critical importance of carefully treating dislocation collisions in such simulations.
This paper introduces a novel symmetry-aware padding method that integrates Wyckoff position information into encoder architectures to significantly enhance the accuracy, stability, and efficiency of generative models for designing diverse inorganic materials, achieving notable improvements in reconstruction accuracy and the generation of novel stable compounds.
This study reports the discovery of easily saturated and anisotropic magnetostriction in the prototypical altermagnet MnTe, a finding that challenges traditional views on antiferromagnetic magnetostriction by revealing a symmetry-allowed coupling between elastic strain and the Néel order parameter.
This paper establishes a symmetry-constrained rule for light-polarization-robust magnetization in antiferromagnetic systems and demonstrates through theory and calculations that spin-spiral structures, unlike collinear antiferromagnets, enable ultrafast, polarization-independent spin manipulation via real-space demagnetization and rotation.
This study demonstrates that combining chlorine substitution and helium ion irradiation in the two-dimensional magnetic semiconductor CrSBr induces local symmetry breaking and defect-related scattering, which collectively reconstruct the anisotropic Raman spectra while preserving robust resonance-enhanced electron-phonon coupling.
This paper presents a self-evolving kinetic Monte Carlo framework that dynamically trains machine-learning models on-the-fly to efficiently predict atomic diffusion rates for thin-film growth simulations, achieving high computational efficiency and accuracy by replacing expensive calculations with uncertainty-guided learning, as demonstrated in Ag/Ag{111} sub-monolayer growth.
This study demonstrates the robust in-situ operation of a 100-transistor amorphous thin-film semiconductor circuit under heavy-ion irradiation, successfully executing a "Hello World" output sequence at high particle fluxes and establishing a new milestone for radiation-tolerant digital electronics in extreme environments.
By combining ultracold-atom quantum simulations with dynamical vertex approximation calculations, this study reveals that spin-singlet entanglement emerges specifically at the onset of the pseudogap regime in the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model, thereby challenging purely classical theories and constraining microscopic models to those incorporating nearest-neighbor quantum correlations.
Using spin-polarized low-energy electron microscopy, researchers mapped the vector magnetization of the FeO(110) surface to reveal a temperature-dependent reconfiguration of magnetic domains from bulk-aligned easy axes at room temperature to in-plane [100] and [001] directions below the Verwey transition, while confirming the magnetization remains strictly within the surface plane.