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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 critically evaluates recent advances in ultrafast sintering, detailing its diverse heating mechanisms and applications while emphasizing the need for further mechanistic investigation to unlock its potential for high-throughput discovery of high-entropy and compositionally complex ceramics.
This study proposes and experimentally demonstrates a general method to generate ubiquitous electronic flat bands in transition metal dichalcogenides through dilute intercalation, where interlayer geometric frustration induces destructive quantum interference that quenches kinetic energy and enhances many-body correlations.
This paper demonstrates that a computationally efficient workflow combining DFT interface calculations with Koopmans spectral functionals can accurately predict the band structures and level alignments of rutile, anatase, and brookite TiO, offering a promising strategy for screening novel photocatalysts for water splitting.
This study utilizes numerical simulations to demonstrate that particle roundness and size-frequency distribution significantly influence the microwave backscattering and polarimetric properties of rough polyhedral particles on a planetary regolith surface, whereas permittivity plays a relatively minor role within the studied range.
This paper establishes the key symmetries and derives a Landau free energy to explain how inversion-asymmetric itinerant antiferromagnetism arises in nonsymmorphic systems with magnetic ions at multiplicity-2 Wyckoff positions, demonstrating that the stable order is governed by site symmetries, band nesting, and anisotropy.
This paper demonstrates that applying a moderate electric field at room temperature dramatically enhances the efficiency of laser-induced coherent spin wave excitation in epitaxial iron garnet films, offering a powerful new tool for controlling spin dynamics in magneto-electric materials.
This paper identifies the quantum-geometric dipole as the key mechanism driving robust flavor ferromagnetism in flat-band moiré materials by determining the size of particle-hole excitations, which enhances their energy gap and stiffness through reduced mutual attraction.
This paper reveals that in nonequilibrium superconductors, a supercurrent initiated by a probe field can paradoxically grow in time during the cooling phase due to momentum-relaxing scattering of Bogoliubov quasiparticles by impurities and phonons, leading to experimental signatures such as an ultrafast Meissner effect and optical reflectivity exceeding unity.
This paper demonstrates that odd-parity antiferromagnets, despite their potential for spintronics applications, are inherently prone to incommensurate magnetic ordering due to symmetry-allowed Lifshitz invariants and van Hove singularities, often resulting in first-order transitions or intermediate incommensurate phases.
This study combines first-principles calculations and experimental imaging to identify a stable, previously unreported 12 surface reconstruction on -GaO(001) composed of paired GaO tetrahedra, while also revealing cooperative indium incorporation effects that offer new insights for controlling epitaxial growth.