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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 establishes a universal crystal-field design principle demonstrating that structural relaxation consistently activates a orbital manifold to drive robust, orbital-order-driven altermagnetism across transition-metal compounds, while a unified symmetry framework reveals how interlayer stacking dictates the resulting magnetic state and anisotropic spin-polarized conductivities.
This paper introduces a combined experimental and numerical approach using FIB-fabricated microbeams and phase-field modeling to simultaneously determine the intrinsic toughness () and ultimate tensile strength () of amorphous silica, overcoming the limitations of conventional methods that typically yield only fracture toughness.
This study utilizes high-field W-band EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy to characterize nitrogen and beryllium co-doped 6H-SiC, revealing their distinct lattice positions, spin coherence properties, and highly delocalized spin density to demonstrate the feasibility of dual-impurity defect engineering for quantum technologies.
This study combines scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory to reveal that single phosphorus atoms incorporate into the Si(100) surface via an exchange mechanism with a silicon atom, forming a stable P-Si-Br complex upon annealing at temperatures as low as 175°C.
This paper addresses the computational challenges in modeling distorted perovskite structures by developing an efficient framework using symmetry-constrained and unconstrained supercell templates to systematically explore composition-dependent distortions and their impact on the stability and physical properties of ABO perovskites.
Using DFT+DMFT calculations, this study reveals that in the altermagnet CsCrSO, dynamical electronic correlations drastically amplify tiny ligand-induced charge asymmetries to drive an orbital-selective Mott transition and metal-to-insulator transition, a mechanism that is suppressed when sulfur is replaced by tellurium due to weaker correlations.
This paper reports the observation of giant, magnetically switchable nonlinear optical magnetochirality in bilayer CrSBr, where field-induced spin canting breaks parity-time symmetry to enable circularly polarized second-harmonic generation for advanced magneto-optical memory and logic applications.
This study demonstrates that negative thermal expansion in cubic ice is a collective quantum effect arising from the shared open tetrahedral hydrogen-bond network, where nuclear quantum effects and enhanced transverse proton displacements drive a density maximum near 70 K, a phenomenon independent of long-range stacking sequences.
This study demonstrates that inserting an Ag spacer between epitaxial Bi and ferromagnets preserves Bi's structural integrity, thereby enhancing charge-to-spin conversion efficiency by over an order of magnitude and confirming that the dominant mechanism is bulk spin-orbit coupling rather than interfacial Rashba effects.
This paper reports the synthesis and structural characterization of a new family of hydrated layered copper selenites, (NH)Cu(SeO)(OH)(HO) ( = 0, 1, and 3), demonstrating that varying hydration levels precisely control interlayer separation and stacking sequences while preserving a distorted kagomé-like Cu network, thereby offering a tunable platform for hydration-responsive materials and magnetic studies.