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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 applying compressive uniaxial stress along the [010] direction in the itinerant magnet EuAl enhances antiferromagnetic character and stabilizes helimagnetic phases by modifying Fermi-surface nesting through orthorhombic lattice distortion.
This paper reports proof-of-concept magnetocaloric effect measurements in the spin-ice compound HoTiO using radio-frequency resistivity thermometry in ultrahigh magnetic fields up to 120 T, successfully detecting both a giant low-field effect and a high-field crystal-field level crossing.
This study demonstrates that universal machine-learning interatomic potentials can efficiently and accurately map the energetics and site preferences of light interstitial elements (C, N, O, H) in a complex Ti-23Nb-0.7Ta-2Zr gum metal alloy, revealing that local Ti-rich environments stabilize these defects while Nb proximity destabilizes them, all at a fraction of the computational cost of density functional theory.
This study demonstrates that using carbon-free gallium- and aluminum-brominated precursors in an industrial chemical vapor deposition system significantly reduces carbon-related defects in epitaxial GaN and AlN layers compared to conventional metal-organic methods, thereby enhancing the performance of high-frequency and high-power nitride devices.
This study reports that the distorted triangular-lattice cobalt vanadate NaSrCo(VO) exhibits a low-temperature canted ferromagnetic order, highlighting how the specific tetrahedral anion (O) critically tunes exchange interactions to produce distinct magnetic ground states compared to its trigonal sister compounds.
This paper presents a first-principles real-time density-matrix formalism that predicts photogalvanic currents in both transient and steady regimes by fully incorporating quantum scatterings mediated by phonons and photons, thereby elucidating the roles of shift and injection currents and their connection to quantum-geometric quantities in non-centrosymmetric materials.
This paper presents a validated mesoscopic grain-envelope model using a phase-field front-propagation method to efficiently simulate and predict grain growth evolution under various material and process conditions in multi-pass, multi-layer additive manufacturing.
This study establishes that maintaining structural and electrostatic consistency between interface and bulk reference calculations, specifically through the use of mixed hybrid-semilocal exchange-correlation functionals combined with strained bulk references, is the dominant factor for achieving near-experimental accuracy in predicting Schottky barrier heights at Si/Metal interfaces.
This paper investigates how hierarchically patterned architected thin films in bi-layer composites can localize interfacial failure and enhance fracture toughness by creating a buffer region for diffuse damage dissipation, utilizing a novel network formalism that integrates discrete differential geometry and spectral graph theory to analyze load redistribution and deformation modes.
This paper introduces a non-destructive frequency-domain quasiparticle spectroscopy technique using precision resonators to identify low-energy excitations, such as two-level systems and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, in tantalum films on sapphire substrates, thereby linking these microscopic defects to reduced internal quality factors in superconducting circuits.