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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 presents a magnonic true random number generator that leverages stochastic switching in the bistable regime of spin-wave dynamics on a yttrium iron garnet microstrip to produce high-quality random bitstreams at 20 Mb/s, demonstrating both NIST compliance and scalability to nanoscale dimensions.
This paper introduces EXIT, a multimodal transformer that integrates MOF identity with experimental X-ray diffraction data to enable sample-aware prediction of Metal-Organic Framework properties, thereby addressing the limitations of traditional models that ignore sample-specific variations like crystallinity and defects.
This paper introduces snapshot-referencing (SSR), a software-based retrospective drift correction method that utilizes a fast-scan reference image and flexible basis functions to eliminate spatial distortions in long-duration S(T)EM spectral mapping, thereby restoring the integrity of hyperspectral data without requiring specialized hardware.
This paper presents a fast, feedback-free method for projecting two-dimensional light patterns using acousto-optical deflectors with an incommensurately staggered frequency lattice to intrinsically suppress intermodulation artifacts, enabling high-speed, high-fidelity generation of both separable and non-separable structured light fields.
By combining high-throughput combinatorial synthesis with interpretable machine learning, this study reveals that optimizing superconductivity in thick FeSe films requires balancing competing constraints of c-axis expansion, stoichiometry, and disorder scattering, rather than simply maximizing compressive strain, to achieve a record onset transition temperature of 17.1 K.
This paper demonstrates that a single organic spin platform can host both dimerized and Haldane sectors, where the termination parity at their junction controls the presence or absence of fractional boundary modes and enables the engineering of their hybridization.
This study introduces an operando neutron reflectometry method using isotope multilayers to directly measure the intrinsic, reversible volume expansion of up to 250% in amorphous germanium lithium-ion battery electrodes during cycling, effectively excluding interference from side reactions like solid-electrolyte interphase growth.
This study reports the discovery of both field-odd and field-free superconducting diode effects in centrosymmetric nanoflakes, establishing air-stable molybdenum carbide as a promising platform for nonreciprocal quantum electronics.
This paper establishes the existence of deployable kirigami structures based on monotile patterns by explicitly constructing periodic and aperiodic examples that cover all 17 wallpaper groups and various quasicrystal patterns, thereby offering a new framework for designing shape-morphing metamaterials.
This paper introduces a molecular dynamics framework that computes mode-resolved phonon spectral densities from classical correlations to accurately model lattice thermal transport in both quasiparticle and strongly anharmonic systems beyond perturbative theory, yielding results consistent with experimental data.