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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 explores how quantum geometry, arising from interband mixing and wavefunction momentum-space textures, introduces hidden length and time scales that qualitatively alter material responses and influence many-body ground states, while reviewing recent experimental advances and methods to estimate their significance.
This study demonstrates that high concentrations of intrinsic antisite defects in the topological magnet MnBiTe displace the topological surface states deep into the crystal bulk, thereby suppressing the surface gap and resolving the long-standing discrepancy between experimental observations and theoretical predictions.
This paper introduces MACE-H, a highly efficient and generalizable equivariant graph neural network that combines high-body-order message passing with node-order expansion to accurately predict Kohn-Sham Hamiltonians and electronic properties for diverse materials, including 2D systems and bulk gold, with sub-meV precision.
This paper introduces Point Group Order Parameters (PGOPs) as a new set of metrics to directly quantify local point-group symmetry in complex particle systems, demonstrating their superior utility in detecting crystalline order compared to traditional bond-orientational parameters and providing their implementation in the open-source SPATULA software package.
This study addresses the issue of morphological non-uniformity in GaN micro-pyramids and platelets grown via MOCVD by identifying the limitations of one-step growth and demonstrating that a controlled multi-step strategy combining sequential growth and thermal treatment significantly enhances structural regularity for advanced optoelectronic applications.
This paper presents a low-cost, cleanroom-free microfluidic device fabricated via lamination and UV lithography that offers simultaneous X-ray and UV-visible transparency, enabling versatile synchrotron-based studies of photoinduced structural dynamics in liquid samples through techniques like SAXS and UV-visible spectroscopy.
This study demonstrates that biological interactions with plasma-modified silk fibroin and chitosan surfaces are scale-dependent, revealing that bacteria respond to fine-scale topographic features while macrophages correlate with larger-scale features, thereby suggesting that tailoring surface topography to specific biological length scales is a promising strategy for developing antibacterial wound-healing materials.
This paper demonstrates that while continuum magnetomechanical formulations for hard magnetic soft materials yield different Cauchy stress symmetries depending on whether the magnetization is described in the referential or current configuration, both formulations converge to symmetric stresses with identical equilibrium behavior when the magnetization field is at its energy-minimizing state.
This paper presents a web-based, human-in-the-loop platform that integrates AI-driven algorithms with interactive human correction to enable scalable, precise, and adaptive structural characterization of multilayer thin films in hard drive design using scanning transmission electron microscopy.
This review addresses the gap in literature regarding advanced manufacturing methods, such as additive manufacturing, for producing unconventional, intricate bipolar plate geometries in PEMFCs, evaluating their scalability and industrial readiness to enable the transition from laboratory concepts to affordable, efficient industrial production.