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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 study utilizes machine-learning atomistic simulations to demonstrate that crystallographic interface matching and orientation, rather than bulk free-energy relations alone, actively govern phase stability and lower transformation barriers in polymorphic HfO, thereby offering a pathway to stabilize metastable phases and direct phase conversion.
This study utilizes azimuth-resolved time-resolved X-ray diffraction to demonstrate that interfacial clamping in thin films acts as a static selector for ultrafast phase switching by anisotropically constraining lattice distortions, thereby causing grain families with varying degrees of constraint to exhibit distinct, fluence-dependent structural responses during photoinduced insulator-to-metal transitions.
This paper presents a community-developed, EMMO-aligned domain ontology for magnetic materials that enables semantic interoperability across multiscale data and tools through a transparent, code-based structure to support FAIR principles and reproducibility in the magnetism domain.
This paper resolves the Landauer paradox in ferroelectric switching by demonstrating that the intrinsic critical nucleus is a three-dimensional polar skyrmion, which suppresses depolarization energy through topological charge compensation, thereby reconciling theoretical predictions with experimental coercive fields and overturning the established Janovec-Kay-Dunn law.
This study employs a two-dimensional electro-chemo-mechanical continuum model to demonstrate that mechanical stress variations around surface protrusions, rather than surface roughness alone, are the primary driver of nonuniform lithium deposition in all-solid-state batteries, providing critical insights for engineering interlayers to enhance battery reliability.
This study demonstrates that solvation qualitatively alters water dissociation at graphene single vacancies by enabling two competing acidic and basic pathways absent in the gas phase, thereby revealing unexpectedly rich interfacial chemistry with significant implications for carbon functionalization and nanofluidic transport.
By irradiating freestanding monolayer hBN with ultra-low-energy Ar+ ions, this study reveals that boron single vacancies are the predominant defect formed contrary to simulation predictions, while impurity-driven vacancy filling plays a more significant role than previously assumed, complicating the selective engineering of quantum emitters.
This computational study utilizes SCAPS-1D simulations to demonstrate that a Cu2NiGeS4 thin-film solar cell incorporating In2S3 and MoTe2 as charge-selective layers can achieve a predicted power conversion efficiency of 28.44% through systematic optimization of device parameters, significantly surpassing previously reported performance ranges.
This study identifies MnTe2 as a model cubic noncollinear altermagnet by demonstrating a large piezomagnetic response through combined dilatometry and nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, which reveal a linear coupling between lattice strain and magnetic moment consistent with theoretical predictions.
This study reveals that the record-high Curie temperature of 478 K in (Fe,Ni)GeTe arises not from homogeneous nickel substitution, but from the spontaneous formation of strain-stabilized, nickel-free FeGeTe nano-precipitates that host a unique electronic landscape combining localized moments and spin-polarized itinerant carriers.