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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 demonstrates that the orientation of helimagnetic order in FeGe can be precisely controlled through lateral geometric confinement, where open boundaries induce a chiral surface twist that acts as an effective anisotropy to steer the helix propagation vector, a mechanism validated by both micromagnetic simulations and magnetic force microscopy.
This study combines experimental synthesis and theoretical modeling to demonstrate that NiFeAl Heusler alloy nanoparticles exhibit high saturation magnetization, a large Curie temperature of 874 K, and significant magnetic anisotropy, establishing them as promising candidates for various magnetic applications.
This study demonstrates that high-entropy doping of the NASICON cathode NaV(PO) with trace Cr, Mo, Al, Zr, and Ni enhances structural stability, activates the V/V redox couple, and optimizes interfacial kinetics, resulting in superior specific capacity and cycling performance for sodium-ion batteries as revealed by distribution of relaxation times analysis.
This paper theoretically proves and numerically demonstrates that the DFT+U single-particle band gap is conceptually valid as it matches the fundamental gap calculated from total-energy differences for pristine periodic systems, regardless of the specific functional form or Hubbard U parameter used, while explicitly noting that this validity does not guarantee agreement with experimental values and does not extend to defective or isolated systems.
Using scanning tunneling microscopy, researchers visualize impurity-driven scattering phase textures in EuCd2As2, revealing 2π phase dislocations around Eu interstitials that arise from interference between multiple scattering channels and spin-orbit coupling, thereby establishing a real-space method to study disorder and spin-orbit interactions in quantum materials.
This paper proposes that interfacing an altermagnetic VSeO monolayer with a conventional -wave superconductor induces a fully gapped, topological spin-triplet -wave superconducting state characterized by chiral Majorana edge modes, offering a practical route to realizing topological superconductivity.
This paper introduces SPARC, a reinforcement learning framework for inverse materials design that generates crystalline structures with desired physical properties by explicitly preserving the essential crystallographic symmetries required for those properties to be physically meaningful and robust.
This paper introduces a novel physics-aware global Rietveld refinement method for high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy that integrates deformation physics into the forward simulation and employs differentiable optimal transport to reconstruct high-fidelity, physically consistent intragranular orientation and strain fields, as demonstrated on aluminum oxynitride with the open-source PARA-X implementation.
This study provides the first direct (sub)nanoscale experimental evidence of Higgs and pseudo-Goldstone ferrons in the three-dimensional ferroelectric lead titanate using electron energy loss spectroscopy, revealing their distinct origins and significantly enhanced group velocities driven by long-range dipole interactions and domain confinement, which paves the way for advanced terahertz communication and transduction technologies.
This study demonstrates that microwave heating of black silicon at 2.45 GHz is significantly enhanced and orientation-dependent, with vertically aligned nano-needles achieving higher temperatures than flat silicon and tilted needles exhibiting a distinct delayed heating onset, all driven by thermally activated carrier generation and form birefringence effects.