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 investigates the structural, electronic, vibrational, and dielectric properties of polycrystalline LaVNbO prepared at 1000°C and 1250°C, revealing that higher sintering temperatures promote a dominant tetragonal phase with irregular particle morphology, resulting in an optical band gap of 2.7 eV and enhanced dielectric performance.
This minireview surveys spectroscopic evidence for biexcitons in Ruddlesden-Popper metal halides, arguing that two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy offers a superior method for resolving many-body interactions and binding energies compared to conventional linear techniques.
This paper proposes and validates an "interaction annealing" approach that suppresses charge fluctuations to reveal the effective quantized valence and orbital structure of correlated materials, successfully explaining complex phenomena like ferro-orbital order in WTe and Mott insulation in LaCuO.
This paper presents a novel contamination-free chemical vapour deposition method using a clean promoter to achieve the scalable synthesis of high-quality, large-area monolayer MoS2 films with superior optical properties, thereby overcoming key barriers for their integration into next-generation electronic devices.
This study reveals that Fe3GeTe2 and Fe3GaTe2 nanoribbons exhibit unique non-collinear edge magnetism that enables highly efficient magnetization manipulation via spin-orbit and spin-transfer torques with low current densities, making them promising candidates for next-generation non-volatile magnetic memory and spintronic devices.
Using helium-3 spin-echo spectroscopy, this study reveals that atomic-scale defects in monolayer MoS2 fundamentally alter acoustic phonon dispersions by inducing a transition from continuum elastic behavior to defect-pinned standing waves, thereby explaining the material's anomalously low thermal conductivity through suppressed group velocities and enhanced four-phonon scattering.
This study reports the infrared dielectric functions of photochromic dipyridinium thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole embedded in a polymer film, revealing distinct changes in Lorentz oscillator amplitudes and resonant frequencies between unirradiated and irradiated states across specific spectral ranges.
This paper presents a novel, parameter-free analytic model for predicting lateral spread in wire flat rolling, derived from governing equations and validated against stainless steel experiments, offering a rapid and robust tool for process design and finite element verification.
This study reveals that nanoporous gold metamaterials exhibit enhanced ultrafast interband transitions at lower energies compared to continuous gold films due to higher electron temperatures and efficient hot carrier generation enabled by nanoscale porosity, establishing them as tunable temporal metamaterials with broad implications for photochemistry, catalysis, and optoelectronics.
Using first-principles calculations and a tight-binding model, this study reveals that the electronic structure and optical properties of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride lateral heterostructures follow a width-dependent classification similar to their band gaps, while exhibiting distinct family-specific trends in screening and optical absorption spectra.