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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 reports the discovery of long-lived, symmetry-protected electronic metastability in the cuprate ladder SrCuO, achieved by using optical fields to dynamically activate a symmetry-forbidden hole-hopping pathway that suppresses relaxation back to the ground state.
This study investigates the anomalous Hall and Nernst effects in anisotropic FeGeN thin films, revealing that Ge substitution induces a tetragonal distortion and a two-component hysteresis behavior driven by the coexistence of crystallographic orientations with opposing anomalous signals, ultimately demonstrating a significant enhancement of the anomalous Nernst effect in FeGeN despite its reduced Curie temperature.
The paper introduces CASCADE, a self-evolving agentic framework that enables large language models to autonomously acquire and codify complex scientific skills through continuous learning and self-reflection, achieving a 93.3% success rate on materials science tasks and demonstrating significant potential for scalable AI-assisted scientific research.
This paper demonstrates a hybrid molecular-2D architecture where spin-active molecules anchored on hexagonal boron nitride function as optically addressable quantum sensors directly on the surface, achieving robust spin coherence from 4 K to room temperature that surpasses bulk organic crystals and enables the detection of proximal magnetic fields.
This study evaluates Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) for predicting 33 diverse materials properties, finding that while standard KANs often underperform compared to Random Forests and require more tuning, optimized KAN architectures and their resulting interpretable closed-form expressions can achieve accuracy comparable to established models with significantly fewer parameters and minimal domain expertise.
This study reveals that while oxygen incorporation significantly enhances the thermal stability of (Ti,Al)(O,N) films by inhibiting decomposition, it has no such effect on (Cr,Al)(O,N) films because their decomposition is triggered by Cr-N bond breaking and subsequent nitrogen evaporation, which creates vacancies that facilitate rapid mass transport regardless of oxygen content.
This perspective reviews electrode-free external stimuli, including chemical engineering, mechanical pressure, flexoelectricity, and optical modulation, as alternative methods for controlling ferroelectric polarization without electrical bias to advance beyond-silicon technologies.
This study demonstrates that bulk FACsPbI lead halide perovskite crystals exhibit exceptionally long electron spin coherence times of up to 1 ms and millisecond-long longitudinal relaxation times, establishing them as a promising platform for all-optically controlled quantum devices.
This paper demonstrates that ultra-thin LaSb crystals doped with dilute Ce impurities exhibit a rare magnetic field-induced superconducting dome, where an in-plane magnetic field dynamically suppresses spin fluctuations to enhance the critical temperature, offering new insights into tuning competing magnetic pair-breaking regimes in two-dimensional systems.
This study demonstrates that while pure single-channel atomic contacts of Au and Ag exhibit negligible magnetoconductance, the presence of residual oxygen molecules induces a significant decrease in conductance under high magnetic fields, suggesting a pathway to creating magnetically responsive single-channel conductors by combining noble metals with magnetic molecular systems.