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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 demonstrates the generation and ballistic propagation of coherent, sub-picosecond magnon pulses in the altermagnetic insulator -FeO using terahertz spin-orbit torques, establishing a new platform for ultrafast magnonics and a high-resolution method for probing magnetic dispersion relations.
First-principles calculations reveal that nonmagnetic Janus CrSiCN4 and CrGeCN4 monolayers are direct-gap semiconductors with tunable electronic, piezoelectric, and valleytronic properties under strain, positioning them as promising multifunctional platforms for valleytronics, optoelectronics, and photocatalytic water splitting applications.
This study demonstrates that strong out-of-plane displacement fields induce the ionization of intrinsic defect states within high-quality hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), causing significant charge transfer and carrier inhomogeneity in encapsulated graphene, thereby challenging the assumption that hBN remains electronically inert in van der Waals heterostructures.
This paper proposes and demonstrates a coil-shaped superconducting wire device based on Sn10-Pb90 solder that achieves high-efficiency supercurrent rectification with large critical current differences (up to 140 A) by leveraging the compensation between external and self-generated magnetic fields, thereby advancing the potential for superconducting power electronics applications.
This paper demonstrates that structural modulation in atomically precise ErFeO₃ epitaxial thin films overcomes Mermin-Wagner fluctuations to achieve a giant room-temperature magnetization enhancement of 3.7 μB/f.u. in the 2D limit, driven by epitaxial strain and surface orbital reconstruction.
This paper proposes and analyzes a field-free switching scheme in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions where cooperative spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque drive ultrafast, reliable magnetization reversal by ensuring the pulse-end state is sufficiently close to the target direction to prevent back-switching, thereby establishing the pulse-end magnetization state as the decisive factor for switching performance.
This paper proposes extending the mathematical framework of double groupoids to analyze spatially varying weighted composites, with the ultimate goal of classifying misalignment defects and their temporal evolution.
This paper proposes that mastering energy band tail states, which currently limit the performance and energy efficiency of monolayer 2D semiconductors due to their rough band edges, is essential for their successful integration into low-power nanoelectronics and outlines specific strategies to mitigate these effects.
This paper investigates the transient response of multilayer Love-wave magnetoelectric SAW sensors by combining numerical simulations and experiments to demonstrate consistent time- and frequency-domain characterizations of their delay times, phase and group velocities, and dispersion behavior at 146 MHz.
This study reveals that van der Waals confinement in the epitaxial growth of monolayer NbSe2 induces strong interfacial mechanical coupling with forces up to 0.070 eV/Å, generating interaction energies comparable to adsorption barriers and suggesting that tuning these mechanical effects is key to high-quality 2D material synthesis.