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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 demonstrates the successful epitaxial growth of high-quality hematite thin films on y- and z-cut lithium niobate piezoelectric substrates via pulsed laser deposition, establishing a platform for controlling the antiferromagnetic Néel vector through temperature-dependent spin reorientation transitions for future magnonic and spintronic applications.
This paper reports the discovery of the quasi-one-dimensional material CsCrS, which uniquely exhibits the simultaneous coexistence of the mutually exclusive charge-density-wave and Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid states due to subtle cesium vacancies that shift the Fermi level into a linearly dispersive band without disrupting the CDW order.
This study reports the successful growth of high-quality all-inorganic superatomic single crystals (Re6Se8Te7 and Re6Te15) that exhibit intrinsically ultralow thermal conductivity at room temperature, a property attributed to their unique structural composition of rigid clusters embedded in soft networks which induces strong anharmonicity and glass-like phonon transport.
This study combines operando scanning electron microscopy with frequency-modulated Kelvin probe force microscopy to achieve the first work-function-resolved imaging of CO oxidation on platinum surfaces, revealing that chemical wave propagation is driven by relaxation-type oscillations characterized by rapid oxygen coverage onset and gradual CO-state relaxation.
Using a three-orbital Hubbard model within the Hartree-Fock and random phase approximations, this study identifies commensurate altermagnetic order as the leading magnetic instability in stoichiometric RuO without spin-orbit coupling, while noting that finite hole doping or higher temperatures induce incommensurate wave vectors.
This paper demonstrates that the anomalous decrease in laser-induced magnetization damping time near a spin-orientation transition is not an intrinsic material property but rather an artifact caused by the interference of nonuniformly precessing local magnetizations, which invalidates the standard macrospin approach.
This study demonstrates that epitaxial Co(001)/CoO(001) bilayers exhibit stable, training-cycle-independent asymmetric magnetization reversal below the blocking temperature, where the asymmetry magnitude is directly correlated with the exchange bias strength, contrasting with the behavior observed in polycrystalline systems.
This study demonstrates through density functional theory calculations that a tensile-strained pentagonal PdTe2 monolayer acts as a highly efficient, tunable 2D photocatalyst for sustainable solar-driven hydrogen production, achieving a 20.40% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency at neutral pH by optimally straddling water redox potentials and minimizing reaction overpotentials.
This study characterizes the hexagonal, two-sublayer structure and unique electronic properties of a newly discovered AlSe surface alloy on Al (111), highlighting its potential as a large-scale, atomically flat interface with a wide band gap for two-dimensional material applications.
This paper introduces the spin dissymmetry factor as a local measure of spin-selectivity in optical transitions and demonstrates its application in designing a three-fold symmetric metasurface cavity that maximizes spin-selective radiative coupling while distinguishing between spin and chirality in near- and far-field responses.