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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 proposes a novel microstructure-aware Bayesian optimization framework that integrates microstructural descriptors as latent variables to enhance predictive accuracy and accelerate the discovery of optimal material configurations, as demonstrated through case studies including MgSnSi thermoelectric materials.
DFT calculations reveal that the adsorption of boron and oxygen atoms onto graphene yields stable, wide-bandgap semiconducting BO-graphane and BO-diamane structures with exceptional Young's moduli and high thermal conductivities, making them promising candidates for advanced thermal management applications.
This paper presents a stochastic-dynamic framework that infers latent grain size distributions in M-type hexaferrites by inversely optimizing full magnetic hysteresis loops, offering a non-imaging alternative to characterize microstructural evolution and structural memory.
This paper develops a minimal Landau theory that successfully models the coupled intersite charge-transfer, antiferromagnetic, and isostructural phase transitions in ACuFeO quadruple perovskites, revealing that intrinsic thermal expansion significantly shapes their barocaloric response and necessitating a reevaluation of previous entropy analyses.
This study investigates how microstructural disorder and competing interactions in polycrystalline A2SmTaO6 (A = Ba, Sr, Ca) double perovskites create a frustrated energy landscape that disrupts universal conduction mechanisms, leading to distinct transport responses characterized by coupled hopping and relaxation timescales across grains and grain boundaries.
First-principles investigations reveal that sulfur-terminated, hydrogen-passivated triangular MoS2 nanoflakes exhibit a critical edge length of approximately 1.5 nm, beyond which robust, localized magnetic moments emerge on molybdenum edge atoms, establishing these colloidal nanostructures as stable platforms for next-generation spintronic applications.
This study utilizes point-contact spectroscopy on pressurized UTe to identify Andreev bound states and quantify the evolution of its superconducting order parameter, revealing multiple phases distinguished by the relative weight of -wave and -wave pairings.
This paper proposes a semiclassical mechanism for light-induced magnetization, specifically the inverse Faraday and Cotton-Mouton effects, arising from quantum geometric quantities like the quantum metric quadrupole and weighted quantum metric, thereby establishing a direct link between quantum geometry and nonlinear magneto-optical responses.
This study establishes SmMgAlO as a weak-exchange, nearly single-ion triangular Kramers magnet where strong crystal-field effects and frustration suppress long-range order, resulting in a strongly quenched ground-state doublet governed primarily by single-ion physics rather than collective exchange.
This paper introduces MADE, a novel framework for benchmarking end-to-end autonomous materials discovery by simulating closed-loop, resource-constrained campaigns that evaluate the efficacy and scalability of adaptive agents compared to static predictive tasks.