🔬 Category

cond-mat.mtrl-sci

4239 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.

🔬 materials science

Autonomous Multi-Agent AI for High-Throughput Polymer Informatics: From Property Prediction to Generative Design Across Synthetic and Bio-Polymers

This paper presents an autonomous multi-agent AI ecosystem that integrates large language models and specialized tools to create a unified pipeline for high-throughput polymer discovery, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in property prediction and generative design while demonstrating metacognitive self-optimization capabilities.

Mahule Roy, Adib Bazgir, Arthur da Silva Sousa Santos, Yuwen Zhang2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Continuously tunable dipolar exciton geometry for controlling bosonic quantum phase transitions

This paper demonstrates that an out-of-plane electric field can continuously tune the geometry and binding energy of interlayer excitons in a tetralayer heterostructure, thereby enabling direct control over the nature of excitonic many-body phase transitions, such as transforming Mott transitions from gradual to abrupt.

Zhenyu Sun, Haoteng Sun, Xiaohang Jia, An Li, Naiyuan J. Zhang, Ken Seungmin Hong, Joseph DePinho, Conor Y. Long, Kenji (…)2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Multimodal Machine Learning for Integrating Heterogeneous Analytical Systems

This paper presents an interpretable multimodal machine learning framework that integrates heterogeneous analytical data from SEM, Raman, gas adsorption, and electrical measurements to characterize carbon nanotube films, demonstrating that nonlinear models like XGBoost can accurately predict material properties while providing physically meaningful insights into the underlying structure-property relationships.

Shun Muroga, Hideaki Nakajima, Taiyo Shimizu, Kazufumi Kobashi, Kenji Hata2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Momentum- and frequency-resolved collective electronic excitations in solids: insights from spectroscopy and first-principles calculations

This topical review synthesizes recent advances in momentum- and frequency-resolved spectroscopies and first-principles many-body perturbation theory to map collective electronic excitations in solids, emphasizing new spectral band structure representations and the interplay between electronic structure and screening effects across various material systems.

Dario A. Leon, Kristian Berland2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Morphological Evolution of Nickel-Fullerene Thin Film Mixtures

This study investigates the morphological and electrical evolution of evaporated C60 and sputtered nickel thin films, demonstrating that annealing induces strong phase separation into micron-scale structures and a transition to insulating behavior, thereby offering insights for developing hybrid nanostructures in electronic and energy applications.

Giovanni Ceccio, Kazumasa Takahashi, Romana Miksova, Yuto Kondo, Eva Stepanovska, Josef Novak, Sebastiano Vasi, Jiri Vac (…)2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Facilitating electrical and laser-induced skyrmion nucleation with a dipolar-field enhanced effective DMI

This study demonstrates that engineering a layer-dependent Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) sign in Ir/Co/Pt multilayers aligns the in-plane dipolar field with the effective DMI, thereby enhancing the effective DMI to significantly improve the nucleation density and magnetic field stability of skyrmions under both electrical and laser excitation.

Mark C. H. de Jong, Dinar Khusyainov, Julian Hintermayr, Bart Sanders, Dmitry Kozodaev, Aleksei V. Kimel, Bert Koopmans (…)2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Fe-DCA Metal-Organic Frameworks on the Bi2Se3(0001) Topological Insulator Surface

This study demonstrates the room-temperature self-assembly of Fe-DCA metal-organic frameworks on the Bi2Se3(0001) topological insulator surface, revealing two competing structural phases through a combination of experimental microscopy and theoretical calculations to advance the design of MOF/TI interfaces with tailored quantum properties.

Anna Kurowská, Jakub Planer, Pavel Procházka, Veronika Stará, Elena Vaníčková, Zdeněk Endstrasser, Matthias Blatnik, Čes (…)2026-02-03
🔬 materials science

Direct Observation of Unidirectional Density Wave and Band splitting in a Single-Domain Trilayer Nickelate Pr4_4Ni3_3O10_{10}

By employing micro-focused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on single-domain Pr4_4Ni3_3O10_{10}, this study resolves intrinsic electronic features obscured by material inhomogeneity to demonstrate that unidirectional density wave formation is driven by inter-orbital nesting between α\alpha and β\beta bands, while simultaneously quantifying the orbital-dependent gap and revealing the intrinsic trilayer β\beta-band splitting.

Zhicheng Jiang, Enkang Zhang, Yuxin Wang, Zhengtai Liu, Jishan Liu, Runfeng Zhang, Xinnuo Zhang, Wenchuan Jing, Yu Huang (…)2026-02-03