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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 employs first-principles molecular dynamics to reveal how TlO induces network depolymerization while TiO promotes repolymerization in tellurite glasses, providing a predictive framework for tailoring their structural connectivity and non-linear optical properties.
Using first-principles calculations, this study reveals that oxygen vacancies and stable neutral dumbbell interstitials dominate the intrinsic defect landscape of orthorhombic BaInO, providing a comprehensive thermodynamic framework for understanding its ionic and electronic conductivity in solid oxide fuel cells.
This paper presents AiiDAlab, a Jupyter-based web platform built on the AiiDA infrastructure that empowers scientists across diverse disciplines to automate, manage, and analyze complex computational workflows with full reproducibility, while highlighting its recent expansion into electronic laboratory notebooks, large-scale facilities, and educational settings.
This study employs direct large-scale ab initio simulations to propose a novel method for determining the immiscibility boundary of H-He mixtures, revealing that helium admixture significantly delays the insulator-metal transition and drastically reduces electrical and thermal conductivities, thereby profoundly impacting the thermal evolution, internal structure, and dynamo action of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn.
This paper investigates charge and energy transport in monolayer graphene with smooth finite-range disorder by employing a nonperturbative approach that combines exact scattering matrices with the Boltzmann equation, revealing significant deviations from standard perturbative predictions and the Wiedemann-Franz law, particularly at low energies.
AutoDFT is a closed-loop multi-agent framework that integrates LLM reasoning throughout the entire DFT lifecycle to automate planning, parameter generation, and error recovery, achieving high success rates on diverse benchmarks and enabling non-experts to obtain reliable first-principles materials predictions.
This paper presents the development and characterization of diamond compound refractive lenses (CRLs) for Dark-field X-ray Microscopy, demonstrating their superior performance at high photon energies (up to 37 keV) compared to traditional beryllium and aluminum lenses, thereby enabling the investigation of previously opaque, thick iron-based samples.
This study demonstrates that the structural and electrical resilience of graphene-based materials under 60 MeV 35Cl ion irradiation depends critically on their initial order, with highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) suffering progressive degradation while multilayer reduced graphene oxide (ML-rGO) exhibits potential for radiation-induced structural reorganization and enhanced ordering.
This study demonstrates that while local chemical order stabilizes positive stacking-fault energy in CoCrNi across temperatures, finite-temperature anharmonic effects fail to thermally stabilize the negative stacking-fault energy predicted for random solid solution CoCrNi, thereby resolving the discrepancy between previous harmonic DFT predictions and experimental observations.
This study demonstrates that a twisted vortex moire superlattice formed between monolayer VTe2 and NbSe2 enables nanoscale manipulation of charge density waves through strain-induced reconstruction of the CDW landscape, creating inequivalent local phases that compete with proximity-induced superconductivity.