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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 study presents a comprehensive numerical framework based on self-consistent phonon renormalization and fourth-order anharmonicity to accurately model the temperature-dependent thermal and thermodynamic properties of both highly and weakly anharmonic insulators, overcoming the limitations of traditional perturbative approaches.
This study employs density functional theory and atomistic thermodynamics to elucidate how oxygen and silver chemical potentials influence the stability and morphology of silver chromate () surfaces, revealing that the coordination of surface chromium-oxygen clusters is the decisive factor governing their equilibrium structures and photocatalytic performance.
This paper introduces a data-driven framework that models microstructure as a stochastic process to construct a low-dimensional, invertible material manifold, successfully linking processing conditions to microstructural outcomes and enabling accelerated, closed-loop materials design.
This paper introduces a physics-constrained machine learning warm-start method that significantly accelerates charge-self-consistent DFT+DMFT calculations, enabling large-scale simulations to determine the melting curve of iron at core conditions and resolving discrepancies between standard DFT predictions and experimental data.
This paper introduces ORDER, a multimodal pretraining framework that leverages ordinality to effectively model the continuous design spaces of composite materials under data scarcity, outperforming existing methods in property prediction, retrieval, and microstructure generation tasks.
This paper demonstrates that strongly discrete transition waves in a tilted bistable chain exhibit quasi-stationary velocity plateaus resulting from a balance between gravitational driving and phonon radiation, where the number of plateaus undergoes a bifurcation at radiation resonance as the tilt angle varies.
This study analyzes the zero-field heat capacity of the metallic helimagnet MnGe by decomposing it into electronic, phononic, and spin fluctuation components, revealing that spin fluctuations persist across a wide temperature range in both paramagnetic and magnetically ordered states with a characteristic temperature of approximately 330 K.
This paper systematically establishes the equivalence between two variational formulations of magnetostatics—one using magnetization and magnetic field, and the other using only magnetic induction—demonstrating that this link remains stable in coupled magnetoelastic models despite the absence of standard convex duality and the lack of preserved convexity or coercivity in the transformation.
This study identifies FeNbS and VNbS as candidate altermagnetic materials, revealing that bond-dependent hopping anisotropy drives -wave electronic spin splitting while single-ion anisotropy governs chiral magnon dispersion, with both phenomena persisting under magnon-magnon interactions to establish these intercalated transition-metal dichalcogenides as key platforms for exploring non-relativistic spin splitting.
This paper demonstrates that transconductance in multilayer WSe transistors serves as a direct electrical probe of valley thermodynamics, revealing a nonlinear transport signature arising from inter-valley carrier redistribution between the and valleys that is distinct from conventional charge accumulation effects.