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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 perspective reviews electrode-free external stimuli, including chemical engineering, mechanical pressure, flexoelectricity, and optical modulation, as alternative methods for controlling ferroelectric polarization without electrical bias to advance beyond-silicon technologies.
This study demonstrates that bulk FACsPbI lead halide perovskite crystals exhibit exceptionally long electron spin coherence times of up to 1 ms and millisecond-long longitudinal relaxation times, establishing them as a promising platform for all-optically controlled quantum devices.
By combining DFT and Hartree-Fock calculations to model lattice relaxation in twisted WSe homobilayers, this study identifies layer antiferromagnetism, stripe spin-density waves, and ferromagnetic Chern insulators as competing ground states near the van Hove singularity, while proposing that next-neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions can drive a time-reversal symmetry-breaking chiral superconducting state.
This paper demonstrates that ultra-thin LaSb crystals doped with dilute Ce impurities exhibit a rare magnetic field-induced superconducting dome, where an in-plane magnetic field dynamically suppresses spin fluctuations to enhance the critical temperature, offering new insights into tuning competing magnetic pair-breaking regimes in two-dimensional systems.
This study demonstrates that while pure single-channel atomic contacts of Au and Ag exhibit negligible magnetoconductance, the presence of residual oxygen molecules induces a significant decrease in conductance under high magnetic fields, suggesting a pathway to creating magnetically responsive single-channel conductors by combining noble metals with magnetic molecular systems.
This study demonstrates distinct mechanisms driving terahertz harmonic generation across the Mott insulator-metal transition in rare-earth nickelates, revealing that strong spin-charge couplings, renormalized quasi-particle currents, and Mott gap-induced carrier density reduction dominate in the antiferromagnetic insulating, paramagnetic metallic, and paramagnetic insulating phases, respectively.
By combining atomic force microscopy with first-principles calculations, this study reveals that subsurface defects in partially reduced CeO(111) break symmetry to dictate the asymmetric orientation of adsorbed water molecules, thereby identifying specific Ce sites as thermodynamically favored centers for catalytic reactivity.
This paper demonstrates that Large Language Model agents, equipped with limited probing tools and guided by trial-and-error persistence rather than explicit instructions, can autonomously discover and verify generalizable knowledge about complex systems, ranging from simple parlor games to advanced Atomic Layer Processing reactor simulations.
This study utilizes a tight-binding model to demonstrate that stacking graphene nanoribbons with graphene sheets creates unique heterostructures where spatial confinement and interlayer interactions can open a tunable band gap and modify electronic properties distinct from the individual components.
This study demonstrates that tritium-induced sp³ defects in monolayer graphene on a Si/SiO₂ substrate undergo nearly complete depletion over two years under standard laboratory conditions, a rate of recovery significantly exceeding that expected from tritium decay alone and distinct from the behavior of hydrogenated graphene.