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cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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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.

Formation of photoinduced space-charge field during in-bulk domain creation by femtosecond NIR laser irradiation in MgO:LN crystals

This study investigates the formation and thermal stability of photoinduced space-charge fields during femtosecond NIR laser irradiation of MgO:LN crystals, revealing that while refractive index modifications vanish upon annealing due to bulk screening, the resulting microtracks and domain structures persist, offering a pathway for 3D nonlinear photonic crystal engineering.

I. A. Kipenko (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia), D. A. Zorikhin (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia), A. R. Akhmatkhanov (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia), V. (…)2026-04-20🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Laser-written reconfigurable energy landscapes and programmable Moiré spin textures

This paper presents a focused laser-assisted local field cooling technique that enables non-destructive, nanoscale reprogramming of exchange-bias anisotropy to engineer tunable magnetic energy landscapes, thereby facilitating the creation of reconfigurable artificial spin metamaterials and programmable Moiré spin textures for advanced spintronic applications.

Matteo Panzeri, Piero Florio, Davide Girardi, Joseba Urrestarazu, Giacomo Sala, Nicola Pellizzi, Matteo Vitali, Marco Madami, Luca Ciaccarini Mavilla, Silvia Tacchi, Elisa Riedo, Andrea Meo, Vito Puli (…)2026-04-20🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

ChemGraph-XANES: An Agentic Framework for XANES Simulation and Analysis

ChemGraph-XANES is an agentic framework that automates and scales X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) simulations by integrating natural language task specification, retrieval-augmented parameter selection, and high-performance parallel execution to streamline complex computational workflows for materials analysis.

Vitor F. Grizzi, Thang Duc Pham, Luke N. Pretzie, Jiayi Xu, Murat Keceli, Cong Liu2026-04-20🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Directionally Locked Heteroepitaxy with a Structurally Modulated van der Waals Material

This study demonstrates that leveraging the Peierls-like lattice instability of a structurally modulated van der Waals TaCo2Te2 substrate enables precise directional locking and stable epitaxial growth of symmetry-mismatched CoxTey epilayers, offering a new strategy for designing diverse multi-dimensional heterostructures without extensive surface treatments.

Nitish Mathur, Guangming Cheng, Francesc Ballester, Gabrielle Carrel, Vincent M. Plisson, Fang Yuan, Jiangchang Zheng, Caiyun Chen, Scott B. Lee, Ratnadwip Singha, Sudipta Chatterjee, Kenji Watanabe (…)2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Obstructed Cooper pairs in flat band systems - weakly-coherent superfluids and exact spin liquids

This paper demonstrates that in line-graph lattices with strong attractive interactions, doped charges form obstructed Cooper pairs whose motion is frustrated by destructive interference, causing the pair kinetic energy to vanish and resulting in a disorder-free, interaction-driven localization that yields an exact spin liquid ground state with topological order.

Tamaghna Hazra, Nishchhal Verma, Jörg Schmalian2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

A new representation formula for the logarithmic corotational derivative -- a case study in application of commutator based functional calculus

This paper utilizes a newly developed commutator-based functional calculus to derive a new representation formula for the logarithmic spin tensor in continuum mechanics while also addressing related problems concerning matrix logarithms and stress-strain monotonicity, thereby demonstrating the calculus's broad utility in tensor and matrix analysis.

Michal Bathory, Miroslav Bulíček, Josef Málek, Vít Průša2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Separating Intrinsic and Domain-Mediated Anomalous Hall Conductivity in Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2 via Contact Engineering

This paper demonstrates that contact engineering in thick Co3_3Sn2_2S2_2 crystals enables the separation of intrinsic momentum-space Berry-curvature contributions from domain-mediated and extrinsic effects in the anomalous Hall conductivity by utilizing depth-distributed current flow to isolate single-domain responses.

Eddy Divin Kenvo Songwa, Shaday Jesus Nobosse Nguemeta, Hodaya Gabber, Renana Aharonof, Dima Cheskis2026-04-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall