2692 papers
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 demonstrates that within an optimization-driven framework for linearly elastic solids, minimizing the work of external loads causes initially volumetric growth to concentrate into singular surface or interface distributions, thereby providing a variational mechanism for the selection of surface growth over volumetric growth.
This paper demonstrates that fragile topological phases, despite lacking protected gapless boundary states, robustly manifest as bulk Dirac cones in two-dimensional materials with time-reversal and twofold rotation symmetry, a prediction confirmed by first-principles calculations in five specific materials.
This study demonstrates that a biomass-based activated carbon outperforms a commercial coal-derived counterpart in dynamic CO2 capture due to its superior ultramicroporosity and surface chemistry, a finding validated through combined experimental breakthrough tests and atomistic simulations.
This study demonstrates that an epitaxial YIG/YIAG/YIG trilayer heterostructure supports hybrid magnon modes through dipolar coupling across a paramagnetic YIAG spacer, a phenomenon experimentally verified by FMR and BLS measurements and accurately modeled by both analytical and micromagnetic approaches.
This study demonstrates that n-doped MoSe2/WS2 heterobilayers within an optical microcavity exhibit strikingly non-monotonic optical nonlinearities and high-velocity trion polaritons with diffusion lengths near 100 microns, driven by Lindhard screening and the absence of electron capture in the Moiré superlattice.
This study demonstrates that fluorination and correlated chemical disorder in biphenylene networks can actively engineer electronic transport by inducing concentration-dependent anisotropic conduction, bias-driven direction inversion, and negative differential resistance, while disorder tends to suppress these effects in favor of Ohmic behavior.
By incorporating dynamic electrostatic disorder into nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations using the damped shifted-force method, this study demonstrates that electrostatic interactions significantly increase reorganization energy and site energy disorder in rubrene, thereby reducing the predicted hole mobility from 35 to 21 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹ and achieving close agreement with experimental values.
This paper reports a comprehensive study of previously unobserved polarized infrared and terahertz photocurrents in bulk tellurium, identifying distinct mechanisms such as the photogalvanic and photon drag effects that can be distinguished by their dependence on polarization, magnetic fields, and radiation frequency, with high-frequency currents driven by direct inter-subband transitions and low-frequency currents by indirect Drude-like absorption.
This study employs first-principles simulations to quantify the spin and orbital Rashba effects at the PtSe/MoSe/LiNbO interface, revealing how the ferroelectric polarization of LiNbO controls THz emission through angular momentum-to-charge conversion mechanisms.
This study demonstrates that using meta-GGA functionals (R2SCAN and SCAN0) instead of the standard GGA-PBE functional yields a more accurate high-pressure phase diagram for hydrogen by stabilizing molecular phases, eliminating spurious dynamical instabilities, and correcting artificial bond weakening, thereby suggesting that certain previously attributed quantum nuclear effects may actually be methodological artifacts.