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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.
The study reveals that substituting Co into Fe4GeTe2 induces layer-selective ordering and enhanced electronic correlations of quasi-localized Co 3d-states, which drive an unusually high-temperature antiferromagnetic order at 250 K in the van der Waals material (Fe0.65Co0.35)4GeTe2, establishing it as a promising candidate for AFM spintronics.
This paper presents an accelerated materials discovery framework combining diffusion-based crystal generation with hierarchical screening to identify over 300 low-energy rare-earth–transition-metal magnetic candidates, including stable phases with saturation magnetization up to ~1.8 T, while providing systematic insights into dopant selection and structural origins for future high-magnetization alloy design.
This paper reveals that crack fronts propagating through toughness heterogeneities undergo a unique global bifurcation where the loss of stable, Griffith-compatible equilibria—rather than a collision with an unstable state—triggers a transition from linear stability to finger-like daughter cracks, offering new insights into brittle-to-quasibrittle transitions in heterogeneous solids.
This paper reports the successful synthesis of air-stable monolayer and bilayer Nb2Pd3Te5 via van-der-Waals epitaxy, which exhibits intrinsic quasi-one-dimensional pair density modulation and superconductivity below 0.6 K, establishing a robust platform for exploring anisotropic low-dimensional quantum phenomena.
This paper presents PIRAG-LM, an interpretable, physics-informed retrieval-augmented generation model that leverages a structured knowledge base of over 13,000 experimental records to accurately predict and plan end-to-end inorganic crystal synthesis routes, successfully guiding the experimental realization of five new compounds.
This paper generalizes the effective medium approximation for thermal transport in high-contrast metamaterials by introducing corrective coefficients, including one analogous to the optical Fresnel reflection coefficient, thereby enabling the intuitive interpretation of heat diffusion through a ray optics framework.
This review consolidates four decades of research on direct current thermo-mechanical testing (DC-TMT) to establish a formal uncertainty hierarchy, clarify its distinct advantages and limitations compared to conventional furnace-based methods, and provide guidelines for rigorous standardization and interpretation across diverse advanced materials.
This paper presents a hierarchical synergistic deep-learning framework that integrates compositional, structural, and kinetic modules to overcome data limitations in multi-objective screening, successfully identifying 97 high-performance solid-state electrolytes from over 30 million candidates and revealing that Li jump-network connectivity, rather than geometric site count, is the primary determinant of room-temperature ionic conductivity.
This study demonstrates that 10% vanadium substitution in RuO single crystals does not induce altermagnetism, as evidenced by the absence of magnetic ordering and unchanged paramagnetic susceptibility, while suggesting that higher substitution levels may significantly alter the electronic structure.
This study utilizes DFT and machine-learning molecular dynamics to demonstrate that the nuclearity of copper clusters anchored at boron vacancies in hBN/SiC heterostructures critically modulates their electronic structure and gas adsorption reactivity, offering a defect-engineering strategy for tuning 2D material functionality.