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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 utilizes advanced computational methods to reveal that the synergistic interplay between photogenerated electron polarons, water-induced surface defects, and adsorbates is the critical mechanism enabling efficient nitrogen reduction to ammonia on TiO(110) under ambient conditions.
This study demonstrates that applying hydrostatic pressure to the -wave altermagnet candidate CsVSeO suppresses its weakly insulating parent state and induces a reproducible, field-sensitive superconducting-like transition below 3 K, suggesting a potential link between altermagnetism and unconventional superconductivity.
By incorporating freestanding infinite-layer NdSrNiO membranes into a diamond anvil cell, researchers demonstrated that hydrostatic pressure induces a strong, linear increase in superconducting transition temperature up to ~90 GPa without saturation, reaching near liquid nitrogen temperatures.
Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles calculations, researchers experimentally confirmed the existence of a dice-lattice flat band at the Fermi level in the layered electride YCl, establishing it as the first real material to host this theoretically predicted electronic structure formed by an interstitial anionic electron lattice.
This paper demonstrates that centrosymmetric antiferromagnets exhibiting time-reversal symmetry breaking can be effectively modeled as ferromagnets with a single magnetic site per unit cell by leveraging a specific spin-orbit interaction symmetry, thereby providing a unified framework to explain phenomena like the anomalous Hall effect and net orbital magnetism.
This paper presents a novel continuum Hartree+U approach that self-consistently incorporates both short-range Hubbard and long-range Coulomb interactions to successfully map the magnetic phase diagrams of twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene near the magic angle, bridging the gap between computationally expensive atomistic methods and simplified continuum models.
This study demonstrates that fine-tuning the pre-trained MACE-MPA-0 model with minimal data (as few as 300 points) achieves predictive accuracy for lithium diffusion in LiF comparable to a DeePMD model trained on over 40,000 data points, highlighting the efficiency of foundational ML force fields in battery research.
This paper presents AI4CHEM, an accessible, web-based introductory course designed to equip synthetic chemistry students with no prior programming experience with essential data science and AI skills through chemistry-specific examples and hands-on projects.
This paper reports the successful realization and stable one- and two-dimensional transport of acoustic bimerons on chiral metastructures driven by spoof surface acoustic waves, demonstrating their topological robustness for future acoustic information processing and storage applications.
This study demonstrates that oxygen and fluorine functionalization, combined with cryogenic temperatures, significantly lowers the sulfur sputtering energy threshold in MoS via the formation of volatile products, thereby widening the ion energy window for selective, damage-controlled chalcogen removal in transition metal dichalcogenide plasma processing.