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 demonstrates that anisotropic strain in epitaxial RuO2 films induces dynamic spin-phonon coupling, enabling the photo-induced frequency modulation of both sub-THz acoustic and optical phonons to facilitate new ultrafast quantum opto-spintronic applications in altermagnets.
This study utilizes X-ray standing wave-induced nuclear resonance scattering to reveal that the Ag-57Fe-Ag trilayer interfaces possess distinct roughness and hyperfine fields, with thermal annealing at 325°C inducing 57Fe diffusion into the Ag matrix to form paramagnetic nanoparticles.
This paper presents a computationally efficient population balance model that directly simulates pore size evolution and microcollapse during pharmaceutical freeze-drying, successfully predicting mass transfer resistance and product temperature across various conditions using a single material-specific rate constant.
This study demonstrates that while point defects significantly suppress the Verwey transition temperature in magnetite, extended line-like defects and remanent strain fields induced by uniaxial plastic deformation do not measurably perturb the transition temperature or its sharpness.
This study introduces a novel four-point correlation function to reveal that anisotropic medium-range order, characterized by a structural length scale exceeding the particle size, peaks at both high- and low-temperature dynamical crossovers in glass-forming liquids, thereby linking these distinct changes in relaxation mechanisms to a single structural observable.
This paper proposes a primal-dual optimization framework that replaces traditional energy-force weight selection with a force-constrained fitting procedure, demonstrating that this approach not only achieves comparable low-error performance with significant computational speedups across various materials but also provides a more robust and explicit rule for selecting machine-learned interatomic potentials.
This paper presents a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that decides local-unitary equivalence for graph states and constructs the corresponding single-qubit unitaries by replacing vertex subset enumeration with a compact constraint system and linear algebra over the binary field.
GEODE is a novel generative model that combines coordinate and lattice diffusion in Cartesian space with Wyckoff-constrained losses to preserve crystal symmetries, achieving state-of-the-art rates of metastable, unique, and novel structures while enabling property-guided sampling.
This paper introduces a discrete geometric spin-orbit coupling framework that explains the origin of chirality-induced spin selectivity in trefoil-knot molecules by identifying site-resolved geometric effects, particularly in substrate-coupled benzene units, as the dominant mechanism driving ultrahigh spin polarization and reproducing experimental magnetoresistance trends.
This study demonstrates that engineering ferroelectric domain configurations in BiFeO thin films significantly enhances bias-free terahertz emission, identifying ultrafast polarization screening at domain walls as the dominant mechanism in stripe-domain films and establishing domain structure as a critical design parameter for optimizing light-driven THz sources.