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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 incorporating electronic correlations beyond standard DFT is essential for accurately describing the magnetic order, band structures, and tunable Weyl nodes in kagome altermagnets Mn, thereby correcting previous interpretations and predicting enhanced anomalous Hall conductivity in MnGa.
This study reports an ultrafast (~33 fs) interlayer energy transfer from lower-bandgap MoS2 to higher-bandgap WS2 at 300 K, driven by a resonant overlap between MoS2 B and WS2 A excitonic levels, which challenges the traditional donor-to-acceptor bandgap paradigm and reveals a process faster than excitonic intervalley scattering.
By blending pentaglycerine with neopentyl glycol and doping the mixture with pentaerythritol, researchers achieved a seven-fold increase in reversible entropy change and a twenty-fold expansion in operational temperature span at low pressures, demonstrating that multi-component molecular blends are an effective strategy for optimizing plastic crystals as solid-state refrigerants.
This paper demonstrates that anomalous features in conventional SR analyses of ion diffusion arise from the temperature-dependent ratio between ion and muon jump rates, suggesting that reanalyzing data with an extended Kubo-Toyabe function incorporating Edwards-Anderson autocorrelation is essential for accurately evaluating ion dynamics.
This paper demonstrates that circularly polarized light irradiation enables the robust and tunable realization of altermagnetism in inversion-symmetric A-type antiferromagnetic bilayers, overcoming previous symmetry constraints and allowing for continuous control over altermagnetic states through stacking variations and illumination direction.
The paper introduces MAD-SURF, a machine learning interatomic potential trained on diverse datasets that achieves density functional theory-level accuracy for simulating organic molecule adsorption on coinage metal surfaces while enabling computational speeds orders of magnitude faster.
This study utilizes numerical diagonalization to demonstrate that the intermediate phase between the exact dimer and Néel-ordered phases in the S=2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an orthogonal dimer lattice widens as the spin value increases.
This study presents a comprehensive, multi-laboratory comparison of electrochemical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques for detecting and characterizing lithium plating on a commercial 26 Ah Li-ion pouch cell, ultimately recommending optical methods for rapid screening with spectroscopic confirmation for reference samples.
This paper demonstrates that machine learning models for materials discovery often achieve high benchmark performance by exploiting bibliographic confounding factors like author and publication year rather than learning genuine chemical principles, highlighting the urgent need for rigorous falsification tests and dataset redesign to ensure true scientific understanding.
This study employs an improved first-principles Monte Carlo framework to predict that surface termination types and coordination environments critically govern order-to-disorder transitions and chemical segregation patterns in multicomponent (TiMo)-based double transition metal MXenes.