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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 AtomWorld, a benchmark evaluating large language models on crystalline material structure modifications, which reveals that while models like Claude Opus 4.6 perform well on basic tasks, their success drops significantly with complex spatial reasoning, suggesting they are better suited as scientific copilots than autonomous agents.
This paper demonstrates that anisotropic local strains, induced by structural domains in an epitaxial La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrTiO3 heterostructure, deterministically lock split magnon branches to crystalline axes to enable robust, multimode magnon-phonon hybridization and transduction despite spatial inhomogeneity.
This paper introduces MiAD, an equivariant joint diffusion model that utilizes a novel "mirage infusion" technique to dynamically alter the number of atoms during generation, thereby significantly improving the discovery of stable, unique, and novel crystalline materials compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches.
This paper introduces CrystaLLM-{\pi}, a conditional autoregressive framework that integrates continuous property representations directly into transformer attention mechanisms to enable robust inverse design of crystalline materials, successfully demonstrating capabilities in both recovering structures from X-ray diffraction patterns and generating novel, stable photovoltaic candidates with targeted band gaps.
This study utilizes a peridynamic approach with an incubation time fracture criterion to model Ravi-Chandar and Knauss's experiments on Homalite-100, revealing that variations in the Mode-I stress intensity factor at constant crack velocities and the onset of micro-branching at higher velocities provide new insights into the nature of crack-velocity dependence in dynamic fracture.
By combining finite-temperature dynamical mean field theory with DFT+ and nudged-elastic-band calculations, this study reveals that dynamical correlations significantly lower Li-ion migration barriers in paramagnetic LiMnO, providing a unified explanation for both short-range and long-range transport activation energies without requiring extrinsic disorder or clustered vacancies.
This study demonstrates that orbital currents generated by the orbital Hall effect in chromium can be efficiently injected into terbium to induce a highly effective orbit-orbit torque (OOT) with a dampinglike efficiency of ~3.66, offering a promising pathway for manipulating orbital magnetization in orbitronics.
This paper proposes a new standard for measuring average grain size in additively manufactured materials based on an interlaboratory comparison study, demonstrating its suitability and limitations across various Ni and Al components using EBSD.
This study employs geometry-based descriptors and foundational machine-learning models to screen the Materials Project database, successfully identifying 37 promising calcium battery cathode candidates, including specific materials with low migration barriers and stable charged states, thereby establishing a transferable workflow for accelerating the discovery of novel energy storage materials.
Using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering on Nd2-xCexCuO4, this study reveals a continuous evolution of collective charge excitations from acoustic plasmons to a gapped hybrid mode and finally to a 139 meV excitation at half-filling, demonstrating that strong coupling to lattice degrees of freedom unifies the charge dynamics across the Mott transition in electron-doped cuprates.