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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 engineering nitrogen termination on diamond surfaces significantly enhances Cu/diamond interfacial thermal conductance by 21% through surficial mass modification and bonding regulation that selectively modulates high-frequency phonon transport, offering a promising non-metallic strategy to overcome interfacial limitations in Cu-diamond composites.
This study employs density functional theory to comprehensively investigate the pressure-dependent structural, electronic, mechanical, thermophysical, vibrational, and optical properties of the intermetallic Kagome compound ZrRe2, revealing its stability up to 25 GPa, the pressure-induced vanishing of topological features, a potential charge density wave phase, and a decrease in superconducting transition temperature due to weakened electron-phonon coupling.
This paper proposes a gauge-theoretic framework for plasticity derived from spontaneous spacetime symmetry breaking, demonstrating that defect kinematics are fundamentally determined by non-dissipative symmetry principles and conservation laws, with dissipative flow emerging as a controlled deformation of this conservative structure.
This paper addresses the fabrication challenges of on-chip superconducting integral field units for CMB and line-intensity astronomy by introducing novel components and techniques—including polarization-sensitive crossovers, optimized lithography, dielectric layer deposition, and yield-improving short removal—to successfully fabricate a fourteen-spaxel spectrometer array.
By employing machine-learned interatomic potentials to overcome the computational limitations of ab initio methods, this study reveals how cationic and anionic surface ligands systematically modulate key phonon modes in CsPbBr3 nanocrystals, offering critical design principles for minimizing nonradiative losses in next-generation optoelectronics.
This paper introduces BEACON, a deep-kernel-learning framework that enables automated electron and scanning probe microscopy to actively discover novel scientific behaviors in target spaces by learning structure-property relationships during experiments, a method validated through rigorous offline benchmarking and successfully deployed on a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM).
This paper rigorously derives a generalized Boltzmann Transport Equation from the Kadanoff-Baym Equations to overcome the limitations of Fermi's Golden Rule by incorporating self-consistent collisional broadening and energy-nonconserving scattering, thereby resolving long-standing convergence issues in 3D crystals and the universal failure of standard methods in 2D systems.
This paper demonstrates that finetuning Vision Transformers with ALiBi positional encoding effectively reduces inherent positional biases while preserving general semantic representations, thereby enabling successful zero-shot adaptation and segmentation in direction-independent domains like material science microscopy.
This study utilizes first-principles calculations to demonstrate that the elastic moduli of the Ti2AlC MAX phase undergo significant thermal-induced softening, with bulk and shear moduli reductions of 15–29% and 13–31% respectively, under high-pressure (10–30 GPa) and high-temperature (300–1200 K) conditions.
This paper presents experimental and theoretical evidence for the formation of three-atom-thick gold structures in break-junction systems and introduces a robust method for calibrating atomic-scale distances and assessing electrode sharpness using these structures as a benchmark.