2898 papers
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 provides direct experimental evidence via inelastic X-ray scattering that BaAlO undergoes a structural phase transition driven by the condensation of a nearly degenerate soft mode at the M point, despite the simultaneous softening of both M and K point modes.
This study investigates the morphological and electrical evolution of evaporated C60 and sputtered nickel thin films, demonstrating that annealing induces strong phase separation into micron-scale structures and a transition to insulating behavior, thereby offering insights for developing hybrid nanostructures in electronic and energy applications.
This study demonstrates that engineering a layer-dependent Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) sign in Ir/Co/Pt multilayers aligns the in-plane dipolar field with the effective DMI, thereby enhancing the effective DMI to significantly improve the nucleation density and magnetic field stability of skyrmions under both electrical and laser excitation.
This study demonstrates the room-temperature self-assembly of Fe-DCA metal-organic frameworks on the Bi2Se3(0001) topological insulator surface, revealing two competing structural phases through a combination of experimental microscopy and theoretical calculations to advance the design of MOF/TI interfaces with tailored quantum properties.
This study demonstrates that the GaInP/MoSe2 heterostructure forms a type-II interface where Fermi polaron quasiparticles emerge, exhibiting disorder-free photoluminescence, substantial oscillator strength, and suppressed carrier recoil effects, thereby offering a promising platform for manipulating optical properties in integrated photonic devices.
By employing micro-focused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on single-domain PrNiO, this study resolves intrinsic electronic features obscured by material inhomogeneity to demonstrate that unidirectional density wave formation is driven by inter-orbital nesting between and bands, while simultaneously quantifying the orbital-dependent gap and revealing the intrinsic trilayer -band splitting.
This paper introduces a symmetry-restricted benchmark that systematically evaluates the fidelity of universal machine-learned interatomic potentials by comparing their predicted two-dimensional potential energy surface slices against DFT calculations to reveal artifacts and assess their ability to capture critical topological features like local minima and saddle points.
This study utilizes an Adam optimizer-based FROG reconstruction and a double-pulse interference model to demonstrate that the asymmetric red-shifted spectral broadening observed in transient multi-frequency Raman generation originates from linear Raman processes within a two-photon dressed-state framework.
This paper proposes a heterostructure of antiferromagnetic MnBiTe and s-wave Fe(Se,Te) superconductor where interlayer sliding-induced ferroelectricity controls the chirality of chiral topological superconductivity by breaking specific symmetries, offering a new pathway for Majorana physics and topological quantum computation.
This paper introduces a wavefunction-free approach that achieves a 1000-fold computational speedup in predicting nonlinear responses like the circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals, enabling the efficient discovery of materials such as TaS with significantly enhanced photocurrents.