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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.
The paper introduces TXL Fusion, a hybrid machine learning framework that combines chemical heuristics, physical descriptors, and large language model embeddings to efficiently and accurately predict topological materials, thereby accelerating their discovery and validation through density functional theory.
This paper presents a gentle, lithography-free via transfer method to construct high-quality 3D superconductor-graphene Josephson junctions with low contact resistance, enabling the observation of gate-tunable supercurrents and providing a pathway for engineering novel superconducting heterostructures on sensitive materials.
This study demonstrates that the spin-charge conversion efficiency in the altermagnet RuO can be deterministically controlled by the adjacent ferromagnet through interface-selective band hybridization, which switches the dominant mechanism between bulk inverse spin-Hall effect and interfacial inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect.
This study utilizes first-principles calculations to reveal that while both BaMgReO and BaNaOsO exhibit spontaneous quadrupolar order and spin-orbit-mediated magnetic canting, only the Re-compound's strong Jahn-Teller coupling successfully stabilizes the observed antiferroic structural order, leaving the magnetic ground state of the Os-compound partially unexplained.
This paper introduces the Fused Gromov-Wasserstein (FGW) metric, an optimal transport-based approach for quantifying material similarity by balancing structural and compositional features, which successfully identified seven previously unexplored high-efficiency photovoltaic candidates, including the stable CsSb, with minimal training data.
This paper presents a data-driven reduced order model that bypasses iterative wavefunction optimization in Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory by constructing a low-dimensional basis from representative atomic configurations, enabling efficient and accurate Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations as demonstrated on a water molecule.
This paper introduces the computable information density (CID) as a universal, data compression-based metric that instantaneously quantifies configurational entropy across diverse molecular systems without requiring prior knowledge of structural features, thereby enabling entropy-driven materials design.
This study utilizes analytical and computational methods to demonstrate that while X-ray second harmonic generation in diamond is highly surface-sensitive near the carbon K-edge, its sensitivity shifts to being overwhelmingly dominated by the bulk quadrupole response as photon energy increases, with specific crystal orientations significantly influencing this behavior.
This paper presents an interpretable self-driving laboratory framework that combines Bayesian optimization with automated optical evaluation to not only achieve record-low disorder in sputtered -GaO films but also distill the resulting data into transferable, human-usable growth rules that clarify the critical role of substrate temperature and parameter interactions.
By establishing definitive symmetry conditions for hosting exactly four conventional Weyl points in nonmagnetic crystals, this study identifies 76 spinless and 83 spinful space groups capable of this minimal configuration and predicts two pristine boron allotropes, P6-B and TBIN-B, as ideal platforms for realizing minimal Weyl physics with clean Fermi surfaces.