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 study refutes recent claims that soap films generate detectable hydrogen peroxide or enhance gold ion reduction at the air-water interface, demonstrating instead that observed nanoparticle formation and H2O2 production originate from bulk solution chemistry rather than interfacial effects.
This paper reports the development of kilovolt-class vertical (011) -GaO Schottky diodes utilizing a TiO/AlO field-plate for edge termination, which achieve superior breakdown voltages up to 4.16 kV and maintain excellent rectification performance with minimal leakage currents up to 150°C, demonstrating their high potential for high-voltage and high-temperature power applications.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that rolling graphene nanoribbons into few-turn nanoscrolls triggers a giant, nearly twentyfold enhancement in longitudinal conductance by transforming localized edge states into 1D-like conducting channels through interlayer hopping, establishing a geometry-driven mechanism for tuning quantum transport.
This study identifies local electric-field gradient variations caused by thorium dopant concentration as the dominant source of inhomogeneous linewidth broadening in solid-state Th:CaF nuclear clocks, providing a microscopic explanation for the observed spectral characteristics and guiding future material engineering to achieve sub-Hertz precision.
This paper introduces a three-step conditional flow-based framework that decouples the prediction of space group symmetry, unit cell parameters, and molecular alignment to achieve highly accurate molecular crystal structure generation, successfully reproducing experimental structures for 83 out of 84 tested single-component systems.
The paper introduces Mosaic, a hybrid mesh-particle representation that partitions space into anchored atom slots to enable local control, hierarchical generation, and scalable assembly of atomistic structures ranging from individual molecules to million-atom polycrystals.
This study demonstrates that NaCl can be trapped within a metastable, disordered ice VII phase formed under specific high-pressure pathways in water-rich planets, only to be expelled at approximately 5 GPa during decompression, thereby acting as a pathway-dependent compositional filter that regulates chemical exchange between subsurface oceans and rocky interiors.
This paper presents an adaptive multi-objective Bayesian optimization framework for autonomous materials discovery that dynamically tunes batch resource allocation in response to shifting campaign constraints, demonstrating superior performance in reducing predictive uncertainty compared to fixed policies across refractory and soft magnetic alloy design tasks.
This paper proposes an alternative theoretical mechanism for magnon chiral damping, demonstrating that the antisymmetric component of the Gilbert damping tensor can induce nonreciprocal spin-wave relaxation that is linear in the wave vector and significantly stronger than effects arising from Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions.
This paper demonstrates that combining a nanoscale band insulator capping layer with an ex situ ozone anneal effectively stabilizes oxygen stoichiometry in helimagnetic SrFeO₃ thin films, preventing degradation and enabling long-term reproducible studies of their metallic and magnetic properties.