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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 demonstrates that polar vortex superstructures in PbTiO3 layers induce nanoscale strain modulations that propagate into the adjacent SrRuO3 layer, revealing strong interfacial strain coupling that enables the engineering of magnetic properties through ferroelectric polarization control.
This study demonstrates that the thermal evolution of PtNi thin films on sapphire and langasite substrates follows distinct, substrate-dependent morphological pathways characterized by a sharp coarsening transition between 400 and 600 C, ultimately resulting in larger faceted crystallites on sapphire and higher surface roughness on langasite due to the coupled influence of alloy mobility and interfacial energetics.
This paper introduces Cell Natural Orbitals (CNOs) as a geometry-based framework that decomposes band-projected interactions into a hierarchical series of local orbitals, enabling efficient and faithful modeling of topological bands like magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by identifying a dominant channel requiring dynamical treatment while treating subdominant channels at the mean-field level.
This study challenges the conventional view that solute atoms cause high-temperature Type C jerky flow in superalloys by demonstrating, through direct TEM observation, that vacancies forming dislocation loops and dipoles are the dominant mechanism pinning dislocations and inducing stress serrations.
This study demonstrates the successful real-space imaging of antiferromagnetic octupole domains in MnSn using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy with X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, confirming the bulk nature of the contrast and establishing a powerful method for investigating time-reversal symmetry-breaking antiferromagnets.
This study utilizes angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to comprehensively map the electronic band structure of CeCoGe across the entire Brillouin zone, confirming first-principles predictions of topological nodal lines while identifying a surface state and folded bands arising from unit cell reconstruction.
This study demonstrates that non-monotonic and anisotropic microwave electrodynamics in hybrid Al/InAs heterostructures provide direct evidence for the emergence of Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces driven by the interplay of Zeeman and orbital Fulde-Ferrell effects.
This paper proposes a simple experimental procedure based on conformal mapping to extract the full conductivity tensor, including the principal axes angle, for anisotropic 2D materials in rectangular geometries, a method validated by numerical simulations and known limiting cases.
This study evaluates the cross-geometry transferability of pretrained machine learning interatomic potentials for ZrO2, revealing that while fine-tuning outperforms training from scratch, zero-shot models suffer significant degradation in low-coordination nanostructures and that average error metrics fail to reliably predict specific physical property performance, necessitating geometry-diverse data and independent physical validations for robust adaptation.
This study reveals that nonmagnetic layered Pd-based multiband metals, despite possessing complex Fermi surfaces and imperfect carrier compensation, exhibit a universal magnetoresistance scaling governed by carrier mobility and a single effective scattering time, establishing a new class of large magnetoresistance phenomena distinct from compensated semimetals.