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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 investigates the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of epitaxial SrIrO thin films and SrIrO/LaSrMnO heterostructures across various substrates, revealing how epitaxial strain and strong spin-orbit interaction tune transport phenomena and Kondo scattering for potential applications in spintronic oxide devices.
The paper introduces MOR+EC, a framework combining eigenvector continuation and model order reduction to efficiently generate reusable, high-accuracy reduced-order models of single-particle Green's functions, enabling rapid, high-resolution exploration of phase diagrams and frequency spectra in many-body methods like DMFT.
This paper reports the successful growth of large-area, high-quality tin monosulfide (SnS) crystals with lateral dimensions up to 350 micrometers via optimized chemical vapor deposition, demonstrating that precise control of precursor temperatures and gas flows yields phase-pure, morphologically well-defined crystals suitable for optoelectronic and device applications.
This paper introduces a plane-wave photon-Fock approach to cavity QED-DFT that leverages existing solid-state machinery to demonstrate how chiral cavities induce a polarization-selective Haldane gap and a complex, non-monotonic sequence of Chern numbers in monolayer graphene, thereby extending first-principles cavity calculations to periodic materials.
This paper reports the achievement of record-breaking low-temperature electron mobility exceeding cm V s in InAs quantum wells grown on insulating InP substrates by optimizing a convex compositional grading profile in an InAlAs metamorphic buffer, thereby enabling thick, Ga-free layers ideal for topological superconductivity research.
This study combines molecular beam epitaxy experiments and first-principles calculations to characterize the magnetostrictive properties of FeCoN films, revealing giant tunability and sign reversal in the constant while highlighting the sensitivity of theoretical predictions to atomic disorder and providing essential parameters for spintronic device design.
This study utilizes an ab initio-based approach to explain the discontinuous increase in nitrogen incorporation on vicinal 4H-SiC(000-1) C-faces at C/Si ratios between 1.0 and 1.5 as a result of a transition from stable Si-terminated to C-H-terminated step edges, which offer lower nitrogen substitution energies.
This study reveals that the occupied flat band in FeSn originates not from isolated kagome layers but from interlayer antibonding coupling between neighboring layers, establishing interlayer electronic interactions and magnetic stacking as critical factors for generating and tuning flat bands in kagome quantum materials.
This paper demonstrates that in three-dimensional interfacial networks, the classical Herring condition for triple lines is insufficient to guarantee local equilibrium at quadruple nodes, revealing a hidden geometric constraint where the six interfacial energies must form the edges of a non-degenerate tetrahedron to avoid frustration.
This study reveals that applying substantial electric currents to polycrystalline SrTiO3 induces a flash event and the formation of a migrating Sr-rich belt via field-driven elemental redistribution and redox-modulated defect dynamics, which nucleates abnormal grains with linear growth kinetics and fast-moving, Sr-enriched, oxygen-depleted grain boundaries near the anode.