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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 proposes the B-type quadratic planar Hall effect (B2-PHE) as a sensitive and experimentally accessible probe to distinguish altermagnetic order from competing antiferromagnetic phases in materials like KV2Se2O and RuO2, leveraging symmetry principles to reveal a magnetic-field-dependent current that is forbidden in non-altermagnetic states.
This paper demonstrates that the effective temperature required for classical LiF simulations to reproduce low-temperature experimental spectra arises naturally from quantum vibrational statistics, specifically zero-point motion and Planck-Bose-Einstein statistics, by matching classical and quantum harmonic energies.
This study uses ab initio methods to propose a new class of metal-organic framework electrides featuring pore-confined electrons, establishing design rules for their stabilization and demonstrating their potential to drive catalytic reactions, such as H2 dissociation, directly within the pore space.
This study employs interpretable machine learning to identify design rules for metallic altermagnets, leading to the discovery of a stable family of tetragonal Heusler compounds with large spin splittings that surpass existing benchmarks and exhibit promising tunneling magnetoresistance.
This study identifies a family of room-temperature metallic altermagnets in orthorhombic XCoB (X = Ta, Zr, Hf) compounds that uniquely coexist with exchange-driven chiral magnons and Weyl fermions, offering a stray-field-free platform for simultaneous magnonic and electronic chirality.
This paper develops a unified thermodynamic theory describing the coupled interplay between ferroelectric polarization and ionic surface compensation, revealing how chemical capacitance governs the stability of homogeneous versus domain states and identifying specific regimes in materials like BaTiO₃ where chemical screening can suppress or promote domain formation.
This study demonstrates that tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide variable-emittance coatings, which lower the phase transition temperature by 25°C while maintaining significant emittance changes, can be effectively validated via cryothermal measurements to enhance radiative heat dissipation for passive space thermal control.
This study utilizes terahertz polarimetry to non-contactly observe the inverse orbital Hall effect in bulk gallium nitride, successfully disentangling intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to orbital angular momentum-to-charge conversion and revealing sub-picosecond hole OAM relaxation dynamics.
By applying constant pressure via gravity to a binary hard-sphere colloidal glass in cylindrical capillaries, this study reveals that pressure induces a unique dynamical anisotropy with faster motion parallel to the force direction while suppressing structural and dynamical heterogeneities, offering new insights into the microscopic coupling of structure, dynamics, and mechanics in pressure-treated glasses.
By combining machine-learned potentials with the Wigner transport equation, this study reveals that pressure dramatically enhances thermal conductivity in crystalline naphthalene primarily by stiffening intermolecular bonds to increase phonon group velocities and suppress intraband scattering, while simultaneously weakening interband tunneling transport.