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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 demonstrates that the suppression of breakloose friction peaks in macroscopic systems arises from distinct mechanisms—such as statistical dephasing, elastic stress redistribution, or driving stiffness control—depending on the specific loading geometry and interplay of local pinning and elastic coupling, rather than a single universal cause.
This paper demonstrates that atomic vacancies in two-dimensional semiconductors can actively engineer topological phase transitions, such as quantum spin Hall and quantum anomalous Hall states, by forming an emergent electronic subspace through the hybridization of defect states, thereby transforming trivial insulators into topological quantum matter.
This study demonstrates that the spontaneous polarization inherent in 3R-stacked MoS bilayers suppresses exciton-exciton annihilation through repulsive dipole-dipole interactions, thereby enabling high-density excitonic regimes essential for efficient optoelectronic applications.
By combining first-principles calculations and X-ray diffraction experiments, this study maps the Li-Mn-Ti-O phase diagram to reveal that specific disordered rock-salt compositions exhibit order-disorder transition temperatures significantly lower than conventional synthesis conditions, thereby enabling optimized, lower-temperature production of high-energy-density battery cathodes.
By systematically classifying magnetic space groups and predicting a realization in chiral boron allotropes, this study resolves the long-standing question of whether a minimal heterogeneous configuration of a single Weyl point and a single Dirac point can exist, revealing it as a unique topological state in specific chiral space groups that yields ultralong Fermi arcs.
This paper introduces spin-space symmetries to resolve ambiguities in defining -wave magnets, demonstrating through a honeycomb bilayer model that nodal -wave magnets exhibit unique bulk spin conductivity and induce surface -wave magnetism capable of generating a bulk-forbidden Edelstein effect.
This study combines high-pressure experiments, density-functional theory, and a universal interatomic potential to reveal that aluminum suppresses hydrogen uptake and hydride formation in AlCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys primarily through increased solution energies and interstitial site destabilization, with B2 crystal ordering acting as a secondary inhibitory factor.
This study presents a non-isothermal analytical model demonstrating that in-phase harmonic perturbations of current density and temperature in a PEM fuel cell's cathode catalyst layer can reduce or even eliminate proton transport losses, thereby lowering impedance and static polarization resistivity.
This study demonstrates that controlled non-magnetic disorder induced by electron irradiation can suppress the charge-density wave order in single crystals, driving the system from a Fermi liquid to a non-Fermi liquid regime and refining the location of its non-magnetic quantum critical point to the composition range of –$0.85$.
This theoretical study reveals that the paramagnetic compound YCuSbO is a promising quantum spin liquid candidate due to its unique site-selective electronic correlations, where distinct crystal-field environments cause one copper sublattice to undergo a Mott transition while the other remains metallic, leading to competing magnetic instabilities that suppress long-range order.