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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 paper presents a graphene-enabled, on-chip integrated detector-interferometer that achieves record-high responsivity and phase-sensitive (sub-)terahertz detection, enabling deep sub-wavelength thickness measurements of thin films for diverse industrial applications.
This paper establishes a unified symmetry classification framework based on spin space groups that predicts novel magnetic phases, most notably the coplanar even-wave magnet, and identifies CoCrO4 as a promising candidate for its experimental realization.
Using scanning tunneling microscopy, researchers discovered localized "vortex liquid droplets" in the iron pnictide superconductor CaKAsFe at temperatures as low as 0.5, demonstrating that local dissipation due to thermal fluctuations begins considerably below the critical temperature where macroscopic melting transitions are typically observed.
This study demonstrates that charge-current-driven orbital angular momentum can modulate temperature via the spin Peltier effect in YIG/Pt/CuOx heterostructures, establishing interfacial orbital processes as a distinct channel for heat transport and providing a pathway toward spin-orbit caloritronics.
This study characterizes the magneto-optical response of epitaxial -based Heusler thin films using MOKE and BLS, revealing that while exhibits a distinct wavelength-dependent quadratic signal and strong BLS intensity at 457 nm, other compositions respond dominantly linearly, thereby guiding the optimal probing wavelength for these materials.
This study utilizes simultaneous transmission X-ray microscopy and X-ray diffraction at the PAL-XFEL to characterize cumulative X-ray damage in bismuth selenide, revealing a multi-stage degradation process involving rapid vaporization, thermal cycling-induced grain refinement, and a feedback mechanism of accelerated damage driven by grain-boundary formation.
This study employs machine-learned molecular dynamics and Markov state models to demonstrate that phosphine-stabilized gold nanoclusters exist as dynamic ensembles at finite temperatures, where experimentally observed crystal structures often represent minor metastable states rather than the dominant thermodynamic configurations.
This study establishes the van der Waals oxyhalides DyOCl, DyOBr, and DyOI as a tunable family of quasi-two-dimensional rare-earth magnets featuring strong hard-axis anisotropy and candidate multipolar physics associated with a high-temperature anomaly near 27–30 K.
This paper introduces a physics-guided hybrid machine learning framework that embeds Zeeman splitting into the learning pipeline to overcome simulation-to-reality mismatches and data scarcity, achieving a 372-fold precision improvement in calibrating NV diamond magnetometers for robust, self-calibrated vector magnetometry.
By utilizing As nuclear quadrupole/magnetic resonance to overcome the challenge of small ordered moments, this study identifies CeNiAsO as a rare "tilted -wave magnet" characterized by a commensurate antiferromagnetic order with a small out-of-plane moment that rotates the spin polarization axis and enhances non-relativistic spin splitting.