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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.
Using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, this study demonstrates that the charge density wave transition in TiSe2 does not involve the opening of a bulk band gap, but rather a lattice-driven reconstruction that folds the electronic structure of a pre-existing band insulator.
This paper establishes a theoretical framework that maps anharmonic lattice dynamics onto a single-particle picture analogous to time-dependent density functional theory, thereby enabling the direct application of advanced electronic structure methods to model the dynamical response of interacting ions.
This paper introduces the "crossmetric tensor," a generalization of Hamilton's quaternion matrix to non-Cartesian bases composed of metric and cross tensors, to provide a unified geometric interpretation of imaginary numbers and crystallographic quaternions as pairs of oriented planes that explains the consistency of Hamilton's product rules across different crystal families.
This paper proposes a comprehensive roadmap for advancing generative AI in the autonomous discovery of porous oxide energy materials by introducing a seven-tier physics-informed inverse-design framework and an autonomous knowledge-generation system to overcome current limitations in application-awareness and data scarcity.
This paper extends the analysis of topological charge fluctuations from the 2D XY model to the 2D classical Heisenberg model, demonstrating through high- and low-temperature expansions that these fluctuations scale with the area of a region at high temperatures but follow a perimeter law at low temperatures.
This study employs DFT and NEGF calculations to demonstrate that gas sensing in layered BiOI is governed by bias-tunable transmission channel evolution near the Fermi level rather than adsorption strength alone, revealing a transport-centered selectivity framework where weakly adsorbed CO2 exhibits superior low-bias sensitivity compared to strongly chemisorbed species.
This paper introduces a generic, software-based real-time feedback framework called "dynamic control" that actively compensates for specimen drift in TEM and STEM by precisely adjusting the stage, achieving picometre-scale stabilization to enable high-resolution, long-exposure, and in situ atomic imaging without requiring hardware modifications.
This study demonstrates that alloy engineering in monolayer MoSSe enables continuous tuning of the optical gap and systematic control of excitonic properties, including B–A splitting and circular polarization, through composition-dependent modifications of the electronic structure and phonon energies.
This study employs first-principles calculations to demonstrate that tetragonal GeS and GeSe exhibit pronounced anisotropic thermoelectric properties, characterized by significantly suppressed cross-plane lattice thermal conductivity and moderate figure-of-merit () values, particularly for n-type GeS at high temperatures.
This study demonstrates that the noncentrosymmetric magnet (FeNiPd)P enables deterministic vector-field control of chiral spin textures and reveals a previously unrecognized, temperature-driven evolution of its effective Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction landscape that induces emergent basal-plane anisotropy at low temperatures.