4797 papers
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 unified orbital-coupling model based on coordination number and interatomic distance that successfully quantifies hydrogen-defect interactions across various bcc metal defects and reveals an unconventional s-d coupling rule essential for explaining experimental hydrogen desorption profiles.
The paper introduces Solphin, a user-friendly Python package designed to streamline the generation, post-processing, and analysis of photovoltaic efficiency metrics from periodic solid-state Density Functional Theory calculations to accelerate the discovery of novel photovoltaic materials.
This study benchmarks eleven universal machine learning force fields against density functional theory across 7,599 multicomponent configurations to identify that generalization errors are primarily driven by training-reference coverage gaps, local geometric heterogeneity, and a distinct asymmetry where compression-induced force errors significantly exceed those from extension.
This study demonstrates that Cr-doping in the non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn effectively enhances anomalous Hall conductivity by amplifying Berry curvature hotspots while stabilizing the antiferromagnetic order and suppressing low-temperature phase transitions.
This paper demonstrates that joint Bayesian optimization of specimen thickness and other parameters within multislice electron ptychography enables accurate, self-consistent estimation of local lamella thickness and depth-resolved characterization of FIB-induced amorphous damage from a single 4D-STEM dataset.
This paper demonstrates that twisting epitaxial SrTiO3 membranes by specific angles (45° for bilayers and successive 30° for trilayers) creates strongly bonded, long-range ordered octagonal and dodecagonal quasicrystalline interfaces with unique electronic reconstructions and nonlinear optical responses, establishing a deterministic route for engineering quasiperiodic order in complex oxides.
This study demonstrates the realization of a superlattice-modulated quantum spin Hall insulator (HfTe5) that hosts emergent multigap-like helical edge states, offering a viable route to engineering gapped edge channels for programmable topological electronics.
This paper proposes and demonstrates that the crystallization of long-lived Frenkel excitons provides a general mechanism for charge order in correlated ionic materials, successfully explaining experimental observations in kagome superconductors where traditional Fermi surface instability models fall short.
Using laser-driven ultrafast impedance spectroscopy, this study demonstrates that resonantly exciting low-energy THz phonons enhances ionic conductivity in both cubic and tetragonal phases of by dynamically modulating ion hopping pathways and increasing migration entropy, independent of the material's static structural properties.
This paper presents a scalable, integrated van der Waals photonic platform that combines strain-engineered bilayer WSe quantum emitters with WS waveguides and grating couplers to achieve efficient, high-purity on-chip single-photon emission with a measured as low as 0.003.