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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 reviews the use of SCAPS-1D, a user-friendly 1D simulation tool, to optimize lead-free double perovskite solar cells by bridging the gap between theory and experiment, while highlighting its limitations regarding 3D effects and its heavy reliance on accurate input parameters.
This study demonstrates that arranging sulfur vacancies in a periodic pattern within monolayer MoS transforms localized defect states into a dispersive miniband, thereby enhancing charge transport by up to five orders of magnitude compared to random distributions and enabling high conductivity even in highly defective semiconductors.
This paper unifies three distinct microscopic approaches—adiabatic, perturbative, and Floquet—to derive the effective magnetic field of phonons, demonstrating their equivalence in the low-frequency limit and clarifying the contributions of spontaneous and induced phononic magnetization in materials like SrTiO.
This paper proposes a phase field model derived from a single energy functional that unifies crack propagation and dislocation dynamics in single crystals, demonstrating that while dislocation emission shields cracks energetically, true material toughening fundamentally requires the incorporation of dissipative mechanisms to resist dislocation motion.
This paper introduces an extended ghost-rotationally-invariant slave-boson (ghost-RISB) method that efficiently and accurately treats correlated electron-phonon systems by incorporating local phonon modes and dynamical self-energy effects, achieving DMFT-level accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost and revealing a Franck-Condon-like suppression of superconductivity in the strong-coupling bipolaronic regime.
This paper demonstrates that structural chirality in inorganic crystals can be induced solely by the ordering of anion species in heteroanionic ReO-type materials like NbOF, establishing configurational ordering as a viable route to creating a new class of chiral functional materials.
CheMLFlow is an open-source platform designed to streamline and automate end-to-end cheminformatics and materials informatics workflows by providing modular, reproducible, and agent-compatible components that address the common bottleneck of assembling complex scientific machine learning pipelines.
This paper introduces delocalized coupled-cluster (dCC) theory, a translationally invariant variational framework that accurately and efficiently simulates polaron ground states and finite-temperature dynamics across model systems and real materials without phonon-number cutoffs, achieving results comparable to state-of-the-art benchmarks at a significantly lower computational cost.
This paper introduces an exact, harmonic-approximation method for calculating X-ray thermal diffuse scattering using the 3D-difference pair distribution function, which accurately reproduces experimental silicon data with minimal refinement and treats thermal and static disorder on equal footing.
Using a Ni-Cr-based solvent catalyst and the HPHT temperature-gradient method, researchers successfully grew single crystals of cubic boron nitride exceeding 10 mm by maintaining a stable precursor flux for one week at 1950°C, resulting in elongated morphologies attributed to the low effective diffusivity of boron and nitrogen species.