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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 proposes that the displacement component of the linear intrinsic gyrotropic magnetic response in magnetic topological insulator-unconventional magnet interfaces serves as a high-fidelity, experimentally measurable fingerprint for identifying and distinguishing the symmetry of unconventional magnetic orders through its unique angular harmonics and sign-reversal patterns.
This paper proposes a new scheme combining spin space groups (SSGs) and magnetic space groups (MSGs) to predict electronic band topology in collinear magnets, enabling the identification of topological materials that are invisible to traditional MSG-based analysis and successfully identifying 26 such materials, including FePSe, from a high-throughput screening of 488 compounds.
This study demonstrates that heat transport in the Hofstadter butterfly, realized in a graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattice, is universally quantized according to topological invariants across quantum Hall states, Chern insulators, and interaction-driven symmetry-broken phases, thereby confirming the deep link between thermal conductance and topological order.
This paper introduces an advanced electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) reindexing technique that utilizes simulated pattern-matching and a novel pseudosymmetry-sensitive confidence index to successfully map local ferroelectric polarization directions in complex polycrystalline materials, overcoming previous limitations in distinguishing closely related domain variants.
This paper demonstrates that alloying GeSbTe with 5–10 at.% tin significantly reduces the amorphization and crystallization energies required for non-volatile photonic switching while maintaining CMOS compatibility and switching speed, although higher concentrations induce phase segregation and cycling leads to material migration that degrades performance.
This study employs density-functional theory to calculate and validate the intrinsic diamagnetic and paramagnetic magnetic susceptibility anisotropy of calcite-group carbonates, providing accurate reference values for pure minerals and quantifying the orbital-driven anisotropy caused by transition-metal impurities like Fe and Mn.
This study employs first-principles GW-BSE calculations to demonstrate that monolayer WSi2P4, an experimentally accessible 2D semiconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling, exhibits polymorph-dependent spin textures and excitonic structures across its three kinetically locked phases, establishing the MSi2P4 family as a versatile platform for the cooperative engineering of spin, band, and optical properties.
This study characterizes the temperature-dependent luminescence and defect dynamics of Th:CaF crystals, establishing a unified model that links electron trap behaviors to the quenching of the nuclear isomer transition to inform solid-state nuclear clock development.
This paper demonstrates that intensity-modulated photoluminescence spectroscopy (IMPLS) serves as a robust frequency-domain alternative to conventional time-resolved methods for accurately determining charge-carrier lifetimes in halide perovskites under operating conditions, successfully disentangling interface recombination from charge transfer in device stacks and overcoming the capacitive limitations of electrical techniques like IMVS.
This paper demonstrates that stacking-controlled Umklapp scattering in large-angle twisted graphite enables the engineering of diverse three-dimensional topological phases, including nodal-line semimetals and higher-order topological insulators, which can be tuned into Weyl semimetals via compression.