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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 experimentally verifies the GNoME-predicted MnFeCoSi compound, confirming its rhombohedral single-phase structure and identifying it as a soft ferromagnet with a Curie temperature of 1039 K.
This study reveals that interlayer interactions in bilayer V2S2O significantly modulate valence band structures and suppress piezomagnetism, while gate-voltage modulation induces asymmetric control over spin-polarized transport in Au/V2S2O/Au devices, offering critical insights for optimizing multilayer altermagnetic spintronics.
This paper reveals that the high-temperature thermal stability of two-dimensional platinum oxides arises from a structural transition to a mechanically flexible, isostatic network that forms a commensurate Moiré superlattice with the substrate, thereby relaxing elastic energy and overcoming the instability caused by the over-constrained lattice of the initial phase.
This study demonstrates that fine-tuning universal machine-learning interatomic potentials on systematically generated structures enables near-DFT accuracy in predicting mixing energies for 2D high-entropy alloys, overcoming the computational limitations of direct DFT calculations for complex systems like experimentally synthesized (Mo,Ta,Nb,W,V)S.
This study demonstrates that applying magnetic fields along the crystallographic c-axis in NdFeO3 induces a complex sequence of spin-reorientation, spin-flop, and spin-flip transitions across a broad temperature range, driven by anisotropic 4f-3d coupling and significantly modified by Nd-sublattice ordering below 8 K.
This paper demonstrates a breakthrough in characterizing operating nanowire lasers by using synchronous electron and photon spectroscopies to overcome the diffraction limit, enabling the nanometer-scale, sub-picosecond mapping of near-field dynamics and the quantification of stimulated photon populations to reveal complex cavity modes and material heterogeneity effects.
This paper comments on a 2025 study by Fujiwara et al. that provides clear evidence of charge density wave synchronization in NbSe3 nanowires through the observation of Shapiro steps on I-V curves when driven by resonant surface acoustic waves generated on a piezoelectric substrate.
This study identifies that the critical limiting mechanism for vacancy transport in sodium metal anodes of solid-state batteries is interfacial thermodynamics rather than bulk diffusion, as evidenced by activation energies significantly higher than bulk migration values and a reduction in these energies upon introducing a sodiophilic tin-sodium alloy interlayer.
This paper proposes a physics-informed AI framework that couples transient electrothermal modeling with reliability classification to optimize laser-enhanced contact (LECO) processes in silicon photovoltaics, enabling the differentiation between stable performance gains and latent damage while guiding the development of digital twins for industrial process control.
This study demonstrates that combining magneto-optical imaging of magnetic flux distribution with quasiparticle spectroscopy via London penetration depth measurements provides an efficient method to correlate magnetic screening and in-gap states with internal quality factors, thereby enabling the optimization of epitaxial niobium films for superconducting qubits.