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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 paper demonstrates that crystal symmetry enables the generation of pure spin photocurrents in altermagnetic insulators independent of spin-orbit coupling, a phenomenon validated through first-principles calculations on materials like MnTe and BiFeO3.
This study combines first-principles DFT calculations with ultra-high-pressure annealing experiments to demonstrate that silicon diffusion in gallium nitride is extremely limited due to prohibitively high activation barriers, thereby confirming the material's stability for precise doping in advanced electronic applications.
This study demonstrates that machine-learned force fields trained on coupled-cluster data, enhanced by delta-learning and charge-aware approaches to address long-range effects and data limitations, achieve superior accuracy in predicting phonon dispersions and anharmonic vibrational properties for diamond and lithium hydride compared to traditional density functional theory.
This study reveals a novel "ferric" topological transition in single-layer Janus MnSeTe driven by higher-order exchange interactions that specifically modify the Bloch point while leaving skyrmion stability largely governed by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, establishing the material as a robust platform for 2D skyrmionics with exceptionally high energy barriers.
This study utilizes high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) combined with ligand field multiplet calculations to comprehensively determine the ground state electronic structures of VBr and VI, revealing distinct high-spin V configurations driven by opposing trigonal distortions and increased covalency from bromine to iodine.
This paper introduces a general "tubular response function" framework to evaluate electrostatic screening in nanotubes with arbitrary electronic properties, demonstrating that metallic carbon nanotubes screen ion interactions almost identically to ideal metals due to quantum confinement and suppressed Friedel oscillations.
This study employs a machine learning interatomic potential trained on over 9,000 configurations to simulate large-scale molecular dynamics of silicon carbonitride systems, revealing that thermal treatment drives phase separation where defective carbon rings mediate the nucleation of graphene-like sheets within the amorphous matrix, thereby explaining the material's unique hybrid properties.
This paper presents a dataset-aware, entropy-maximized active learning framework that combines local entropy-driven molecular dynamics with global information filtering to efficiently generate high-quality training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials, achieving significantly lower energy errors than random sampling across diverse chemical systems with minimal DFT-labeled structures.
This paper demonstrates the successful growth of high-quality, air-stable superconducting PdTe thin films with bulk-like properties via molecular beam epitaxy using a topotactic transformation from a PdTe₂ buffer layer, establishing a promising platform for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes.
This paper demonstrates that an extreme ultra-violet transient grating, formed by interfering free-electron laser pulses, can overcome momentum mismatch to enable the ultrafast excitation of Bloch plasmon polaritons in hyperbolic metamaterials, offering a dynamic alternative to permanent nanostructured gratings for controlling optical modes.