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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 presents a novel strain engineering technique using conformal transfer onto two-photon lithography-patterned substrates to achieve high-magnitude (>2%), stable, and spatially and directionally programmable strain in monolayer MoS2 and heterostructures, enabling significant local band gap tuning for advanced optoelectronic and nanoelectronic applications.
This paper presents an efficient, fully ab-initio approach combining interpolation, extrapolation, and dynamical effects to overcome sampling challenges in simulations of 2D and 3D metals and doped semiconductors, successfully predicting quasiparticle gap renormalization that aligns with experimental ARPES data.
This study reports the first experimental realization of the theoretically predicted room-temperature quantum spin Hall phase in free-standing monolayer SiTe by utilizing HfTe as an epitaxial substrate, with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy confirming its strain-free lattice, sizable band gap, and distinct topological edge states.
Using synchrotron x-ray diffraction, researchers discovered that hexagonal close-packed water ice becomes thermodynamically stable over the face-centered cubic phase via a martensitic transition at high pressures and temperatures relevant to the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, potentially influencing planetary models.
This paper demonstrates that competition among graphene-, substrate-, and reconstruction-derived interactions in GdAuGe films on N-layer graphene/SiC(0001) induces remote epitaxial frustration, which stabilizes a self-limited interfacial state with broken translational order and strongly enhanced magnetic irreversibility, thereby establishing epitaxial frustration as a viable materials-design principle for creating correlated interfacial states.
This paper elucidates the microscopic origin of Rashba coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides by demonstrating that the competition between internal polarization and interlayer hybridization governs spin splitting in bilayers, introducing orbital polarization imbalance as a key order parameter to quantify this asymmetry.
This study utilizes electron backscatter diffraction to demonstrate that in 310S TWIP steel, the transition from dislocation slip to intensified twinning and texture redistribution during strain localization drives a significant reduction in the fraction of stored plastic work, ultimately leading to energy storage rates approaching zero or negative values.
This paper proposes a feasible platform for realizing multiple Majorana zero modes by integrating the superconducting topological crystalline metal ZrRuAs with a ferromagnetic insulator, which leverages mirror symmetry and spin splitting to generate a topological superconducting phase with a Chern number of -2.
This paper demonstrates that plasma screening in driven Weyl semimetals induces highly nonlinear, topological photoresponses that exhibit optical multistability and hysteresis, with broken time-reversal symmetry further enabling helicity-selective chiral photocurrents through tilted Weyl nodes.
X-ray diffraction studies of a PbTiO3 epitaxial thin film reveal an unusual ferroelectric-paraelectric phase coexistence regime between 402°C and 414°C, driven by vertical strain gradients that facilitate a specific domain structure transition within this temperature interval.