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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 reveals that Nowotny chimney ladder crystals, specifically RuSn, exhibit glass-like thermodynamic and thermoelectric anomalies driven by low-energy optical phonons from their unique sublattice structure that hybridize with acoustic modes, leading to unconventional transport behaviors explained by a model of electron scattering with overdamped phonons.
This study demonstrates that excitonic resonances in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr serve as a unified broadband optical interface for GHz magnon and THz phonon collective excitations by transiently activating a nominally dark exciton through boson-driven modulation of the dielectric response.
The paper introduces GENIUS, an agentic AI framework that integrates a Quantum ESPRESSO knowledge graph with a tiered LLM hierarchy and finite-state error recovery to autonomously generate, validate, and repair DFT simulation protocols, thereby democratizing materials discovery by achieving high success rates while significantly reducing costs and hallucinations compared to standard LLM approaches.
This study reports the first epitaxial growth of NaKSb films on graphene-coated SiC, enabling the identification of (111) surface electronic states via ARPES and DFT, and demonstrating that the film's crystalline order is preserved after Cs/Sb activation to facilitate future improvements in multialkali photocathodes.
This paper introduces a unified geometric framework using "propagation maps" to characterize wave behavior in diverse isotropy-broken photonic media, defining novel "Maradona exceptional points" and "Pele singularities" that govern the transition between forward/backward propagation and gain/loss regimes through the collapse of the momentum-resolved density of states.
This study demonstrates that the performance of spintronic terahertz emitters based on MBE-grown PtTe can be optimized by exploiting thickness-driven electronic phase transitions, where a peak emission six times stronger than platinum is achieved at 10 monolayers due to enhanced spin-to-charge conversion from developing type-II Dirac band structures and interfacial Rashba effects.
This study introduces a novel mechanical exfoliation technique to directly characterize MoS-based memristors, revealing that conducting filaments form via metallic atom migration from the top electrode and that electrode material significantly influences switching behavior.
This paper utilizes a minimalistic Luttinger Hamiltonian model to map the topological phase transitions of strained inverted-band-gap semiconductors among 3D topological insulators, Dirac, nodal-line, and Weyl semimetals, while deriving analytical surface state solutions that reveal their continuous evolution and a non-analytic dispersion feature at the projected nodal line.
This study demonstrates that combining pulsed thermal annealing above the Néel temperature with a sub-millitesla magnetic field enables reliable and reproducible switching of the chiral antiferromagnetic order in MnSn by thermally softening magnetic anisotropy to near-zero energy barriers.
This paper demonstrates that gapped two-dimensional materials exhibiting the quantum anomalous Hall effect display universal optical transmission, reflection, and absorption coefficients at low temperatures that depend solely on the ratio of photonic to gap energy, featuring total reflection at energy equality and recovering graphene's fine-structure constant-dependent behavior in the vanishing gap limit.