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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 reports the observation of a Nernst effect peak around the Curie temperature in ferromagnetic (Mn,Cr)Sb samples, attributing this phenomenon to longitudinal spin fluctuations rather than static magnetization or exotic electronic structures, thereby challenging the conventional Mott relation and revealing a new mechanism for enhancing transverse thermoelectric conversion.
This study demonstrates that polycrystalline ferroelectric 2D perovskite thin films generate highly linearly polarized superfluorescence bursts without external bias, revealing a cooperative amplification mechanism that converts weak microscopic structural anisotropies into robust macroscopic order.
This study demonstrates that direct extrusion of Zn-Mg and Zn-Mg-Sr alloys significantly refines grain structure and enhances tensile strength compared to pure zinc, but reveals that poor cyclic bendability driven by twinning-detwinning mechanisms remains a critical limitation for their use in bending-critical biomedical devices.
This study demonstrates that while the average structural response of interfacial water at electrified Pt(111) is governed primarily by surface charge regardless of the counter-charge representation, specific electrolyte ion effects are only detectable through local structural descriptors and vibrational signatures.
This paper introduces a bold hybridization-expansion quantum Monte Carlo solver that efficiently implements strong-coupling expansions with closed-form real-axis Feynman rules to achieve rapid convergence and high-accuracy spectroscopy for quantum impurity problems on both real and imaginary frequency axes.
This study extends Kirchhoff's kinetic analogy to planar soft ferromagnetic rods under external magnetic fields, revealing distinct bifurcation behaviors and novel localized equilibrium solutions driven by homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits that are absent in purely elastic systems.
Using scanning NV magnetometry to probe two square-lattice artificial spin ice systems with different lattice constants, this study reveals how varying coupling strengths influence ice-rule violations and demonstrates a method for extracting detailed local magnetic field components and material parameters to advance the design of magnonic and spintronic devices.
This paper introduces a scalable microsecond-pulsed nanocalorimetry technique (μs-PHnC) that achieves ultrasensitive, quasi-isothermal heat capacity measurements on subnanogram samples by minimizing thermal diffusion and addenda, thereby enabling the precise thermodynamic characterization of low-dimensional materials and their phase transitions under external stimuli.
This study investigates the vibrational structure of the layered ferromagnet CrGeTe using high-resolution Raman scattering and density functional theory to reveal strong spin-phonon coupling at specific magnetic transition temperatures and to explain the unique multi-peak structure of the A mode through Ge-Ge pseudo-molecule vibrations involving various Ge isotopes.
This paper develops an effective low-energy theory demonstrating that smoothly varying altermagnetic spin textures generate unique emergent electromagnetic fields and quantum-geometric effects, such as spin-dependent electron lensing and local spin manipulation, which offer new mechanisms for spin control and the detection of altermagnetism.