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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 demonstrates that polycrystalline -FeSi thin films exhibit robust intrinsic topological transport, including an intrinsic anomalous Hall effect and chiral anomaly signatures characteristic of Weyl semimetals, despite significant disorder and grain boundaries.
This study employs first-principles calculations to comprehensively analyze the electronic structure, Raman-active phonon modes, Gruneisen parameters, and phonon lifetimes of hexagonal silicon and germanium allotropes, aiming to elucidate anharmonic effects and provide strategies for optimizing these materials for advanced thermoelectric, photovoltaic, and optoelectronic applications.
This study demonstrates that substituting Ni for Co in NdCo₂ suppresses the orthorhombic phase and reduces the magnetic moment, thereby decreasing the magnetocaloric effect at cryogenic temperatures.
Neutron powder diffraction reveals that Rb1-xV2Te2O, a candidate metallic room-temperature altermagnet, actually possesses a G-type antiferromagnetic structure below 337 K, contradicting previous theoretical expectations and offering new insights into its physics.
This review examines inorganic solid electrolytes across oxide, sulfide, and halide frameworks to elucidate how multiscale structure-property relationships—ranging from crystallographic symmetry to local polyhedra arrangements—govern ion transport mechanisms and guide the design of optimized all-solid-state batteries.
This paper proposes a molecular design strategy using triangulene-derived radicals in honeycomb 2D frameworks to achieve designer metal-free altermagnetism by breaking inversion symmetry while preserving the bipartite lattice, resulting in robust d-wave spin splitting and antiferromagnetic coupling suitable for room-temperature organic spintronics.
This study demonstrates that few-layer NiPS3/WSe2 van der Waals heterostructures exhibit spontaneous circularly polarized exciton emission and nonlinear Zeeman splitting due to interface-induced localization and magnetic proximity effects, as confirmed by low-temperature spectroscopy and DFT calculations.
This study demonstrates that the potential of zero charge (PZC), rather than spin state, is the superior predictor for density-dependent oxygen reduction activity and selectivity in M-N-C electrocatalysts, as PZC-driven shifts in the interfacial electric field modulate adsorption energetics to explain performance trends across varying metal-site densities.
This review examines the state-of-the-art in low-dimensional single-photon detector platforms, including quantum dots, superconducting nanowires, and layered materials, by analyzing their device architectures, performance metrics, and applications while identifying current challenges and future research directions to advance next-generation SPD technologies.
This paper derives a closed-form stability criterion for charged colloidal crystals that predicts direction-dependent elastic softening and identifies the critical electrostatic-elastic coupling strength at which specific crystallographic axes lose rigidity, linking phenomenological parameters to microscopic properties via Poisson-Boltzmann theory.