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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 while Gd-rich precipitates in Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloys significantly enhance mechanical strength with minimal degradation of magnetocaloric properties, grain refinement plays a more dominant role than precipitates in improving the overall mechanical stability of these materials.
This study reveals that molecularly thin crystalline films can exhibit an interfacially arrested melting regime where large liquid droplets remain stably trapped above the bulk melting temperature due to the competition between bulk melting enthalpy and capillary confinement, enabling intrinsic thermodynamic amplification of thermal signals.
This paper demonstrates that incorporating uncertainty quantification into machine learning models significantly enhances the reliability and trustworthiness of magnetic material property predictions, from composition-based surrogate models to complex microstructure-sensitive tasks.
This first-principles study demonstrates that substituting tellurium with lighter (S, Se) or heavier (Sb) elements systematically tunes the spin-orbit coupling, spin textures, and Rashba-Edelstein response in chiral Te while preserving its fundamental chirality, thereby offering a viable strategy for optimizing magnet-free spintronic devices.
This study employs realistic dynamical mean-field theory calculations to establish a precision many-body description of RuO as a moderately correlated Fermi liquid that successfully reproduces most experimental transport properties, while simultaneously revealing a significant discrepancy in thermal resistivity that points to unresolved challenges in understanding charge and heat current relaxation.
This study demonstrates that a quantum anomalous Hall topological circulator enables enhanced, frequency-selective detection of microwave-photon-induced perturbations to edge magnetoplasmon transport, particularly through non-Hermitian mode hybridization near an exceptional point.
This study demonstrates the low-temperature solid-state synthesis of superconducting refractory-metal germanides (V-Ge, Ta-Ge, and Nb-Ge) for Ge/SiGe quantum devices, revealing that while high-quality superconducting layers can be formed at 390°C, limited interfacial reaction depth prevents effective integration with buried quantum wells.
This paper establishes an exact decomposition of the shift current into integer and continuous sectors by identifying the shift vector as a singular field with quantized point charges, demonstrating that the sign and magnitude of photocurrent peaks in bilayer systems are governed by the winding of these charges rather than the global Chern number.
This paper proposes a new form of magnetism called "phonomagnetism," where phonons spontaneously order their angular momentum to generate magnetic effects, identifying VI as a candidate material and suggesting potential applications in ultrafast information storage.
This paper introduces state-aligned graph-wavelet fingerprints to quantitatively resolve and classify electron trapping mechanisms in amorphous SiN by simultaneously linking electronic identity, multiscale structural reorganization, and energetic stabilization across diverse trapping scenarios.