2692 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 paper utilizes phase-field simulations and sharp-interface theory to demonstrate that the bicontinuous structures formed during the peritectic melting of Ti-Ag arise from a morphological instability of liquid film migration, where branched solid growth coalesces into handles and subsequently coarsens to match experimental observations.
This paper introduces a new benchmarking framework for transparent conducting oxides that evaluates materials based on their optical transparency at fixed, application-relevant sheet resistance, thereby bridging the gap between traditional material metrics and actual device performance requirements.
This study demonstrates that rhombohedrally stacked bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides can achieve ultrafast (sub-200 fs), light-induced reversal of out-of-plane polarization via an electronic mechanism driven by localized dipole rearrangement, offering a pathway for sub-picosecond volatile optical memory without the slow, high-energy requirements of mechanical layer sliding.
This paper reports the successful molecular beam epitaxy growth of high-quality -MnTe thin films on GaAs(111)B substrates and their comprehensive characterization, which, through Raman spectroscopy and first-principles calculations, enables the complete experimental resolution of all symmetry-allowed optical phonon modes to establish a robust platform for investigating altermagnetism.
By combining swap Monte Carlo simulations with full potential-energy-landscape analysis on a finite-sized system, this study demonstrates that the fragile-to-strong crossover in glassy dynamics arises naturally from the depletion of low-energy states in the landscape, which governs both the low-temperature curvature of configurational entropy and the transition to Arrhenius-like behavior.
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations reveal that elastomeric polymer networks rupture at stresses far below covalent bond strength because deformation concentrates on a "minimum shortest path" of bonds, leading to the sequential failure of a small fraction of these critical bonds rather than the simultaneous breaking of the entire network.
This study reveals that Nowotny chimney ladder crystals, specifically RuSn, exhibit glass-like thermodynamic and thermoelectric anomalies driven by low-energy optical phonons from their unique sublattice structure that hybridize with acoustic modes, leading to unconventional transport behaviors explained by a model of electron scattering with overdamped phonons.
This study demonstrates that excitonic resonances in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr serve as a unified broadband optical interface for GHz magnon and THz phonon collective excitations by transiently activating a nominally dark exciton through boson-driven modulation of the dielectric response.
The paper introduces GENIUS, an agentic AI framework that integrates a Quantum ESPRESSO knowledge graph with a tiered LLM hierarchy and finite-state error recovery to autonomously generate, validate, and repair DFT simulation protocols, thereby democratizing materials discovery by achieving high success rates while significantly reducing costs and hallucinations compared to standard LLM approaches.
This study reports the first epitaxial growth of NaKSb films on graphene-coated SiC, enabling the identification of (111) surface electronic states via ARPES and DFT, and demonstrating that the film's crystalline order is preserved after Cs/Sb activation to facilitate future improvements in multialkali photocathodes.