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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 introduces a general solution-based synthesis method using molten inorganic salts under elevated ammonia pressure to successfully produce a wide range of colloidal metal nitride nanocrystals, overcoming the thermal limitations of traditional solvents and expanding the scope of processable materials for advanced technologies.
This study characterizes the hexagonal polymorph of disordered CePdGe as a cluster glass material with a freezing temperature of 3.44 K and a significant magnetocaloric effect near 7–9 K, distinguishing its physical properties from the antiferromagnetic behavior of its tetragonal counterpart.
This paper proposes a comprehensive one-dimensional theoretical model incorporating various recombination mechanisms, band-gap narrowing, and photon recycling to accurately simulate and optimize the performance of high-efficiency gallium arsenide solar cells, demonstrating strong agreement with experimental data.
This paper establishes a rigorous theoretical framework for linear viscoelasticity across the sol-gel transition, demonstrating that the continuity of dynamic moduli and their derivatives at the critical gel point necessitates symmetric relaxation dynamics, which unifies scaling laws, imposes a hyper-scaling relation, and reveals a lower bound for the critical relaxation exponent.
This study demonstrates that liquid-state structural asymmetry, where cations with higher valence form locally crystal-compatible coordination environments more readily than lower-valence ones, governs species-selective incorporation and compositional heterogeneity during the crystallization of multicomponent systems like AgPbBiTe.
This paper demonstrates that the Sc2C2@C88 cluster functions as an ultra-compact, controllable multi-level probabilistic bit capable of generating high-quality random sequences and performing matrix-chain multiplication, thereby paving the way for next-generation intelligent electronic devices.
By combining noncontact atomic force microscopy with density functional theory calculations, this study demonstrates that the unreconstructed -AlO(0001) surface is intrinsically inhomogeneous and rough rather than atomically flat and uniformly Al-terminated as commonly assumed.
This paper demonstrates that shear strain-induced spin-group-symmetry breaking in collinear altermagnetic insulators enables sign-controlled charge and spin photocurrents via spin-gap asymmetry, offering a novel optical method to detect and investigate altermagnetism.
This study demonstrates that reactive magnetron sputtering using a liquid gallium target can successfully produce crystalline -GaO thin films with optimized electrical properties, particularly achieving a low resistivity of on sapphire substrates at 585°C, provided that deposition temperature and substrate selection are carefully controlled to ensure homogeneous crystallization.
Using time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, this study reveals that the air-stable van der Waals semiconductor CrSBr hosts strongly bound, quasi-one-dimensional excitons with an exceptionally large binding energy of ~800 meV, while demonstrating that their ultrafast formation and annihilation are governed by many-body interactions with free carriers on picosecond timescales.