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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 reports the first successful synthesis of Zr2SN2 thin films, a new class of metal sulfonitride transparent conductors that uniquely combine visible-light transparency, ultra-high refractive index (2.95), and degenerate n-type conductivity.
Using scanning tunneling microscopy and advanced theoretical modeling, this study reveals that a bulk hybrid transition-metal dichalcogenide (4Hb-TaS) hosts an emergent incommensurate potential arising from lattice mismatch between alternating 1T and 1H layers, which modulates interlayer charge transfer to drive the system toward a doped Mott regime and competes with bulk superconductivity.
This paper presents a multi-fidelity machine learning approach that fine-tunes a DFT-trained interatomic potential using limited quantum Monte Carlo energies to achieve near-QMC accuracy for simulating sulfur vacancy migration in monolayer MoS, enabling large-scale, high-precision simulations that are computationally prohibitive with direct QMC methods.
This paper proposes a topological cell-openness index () based on Betti numbers as a complementary or alternative metric to gas pycnometry for characterizing the open versus closed cell proportions in porous materials, while also demonstrating its correlation with physical quantities and its utility in estimating feature sizes.
This paper demonstrates that crystal symmetry enables the generation of pure spin photocurrents in altermagnetic insulators independent of spin-orbit coupling, a phenomenon validated through first-principles calculations on materials like MnTe and BiFeO3.
This study combines first-principles DFT calculations with ultra-high-pressure annealing experiments to demonstrate that silicon diffusion in gallium nitride is extremely limited due to prohibitively high activation barriers, thereby confirming the material's stability for precise doping in advanced electronic applications.
This study demonstrates that machine-learned force fields trained on coupled-cluster data, enhanced by delta-learning and charge-aware approaches to address long-range effects and data limitations, achieve superior accuracy in predicting phonon dispersions and anharmonic vibrational properties for diamond and lithium hydride compared to traditional density functional theory.
This study reveals a novel "ferric" topological transition in single-layer Janus MnSeTe driven by higher-order exchange interactions that specifically modify the Bloch point while leaving skyrmion stability largely governed by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, establishing the material as a robust platform for 2D skyrmionics with exceptionally high energy barriers.
This study utilizes high-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) combined with ligand field multiplet calculations to comprehensively determine the ground state electronic structures of VBr and VI, revealing distinct high-spin V configurations driven by opposing trigonal distortions and increased covalency from bromine to iodine.
This paper introduces a general "tubular response function" framework to evaluate electrostatic screening in nanotubes with arbitrary electronic properties, demonstrating that metallic carbon nanotubes screen ion interactions almost identically to ideal metals due to quantum confinement and suppressed Friedel oscillations.