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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.
Using first-principles calculations, this study demonstrates that coherent chiral lattice motion in metals induces significant orbital accumulation and a smaller spin accumulation, revealing that the response is primarily governed by orbital character and electron-phonon coupling rather than spin-orbit coupling alone, thereby identifying light transition metals as promising platforms for chiral-phonon-driven orbitronics.
This study demonstrates that optimal input representations for materials property prediction depend on LLM scale, with compact formats suiting smaller models and detailed descriptions benefiting larger ones, while establishing mean negative log-likelihood as an effective, training-free confidence metric for fine-tuned models.
This study employs charge self-consistent DFT+DMFT calculations to investigate how crystal structure, ligand fields, and varying correlation strengths (including oxygen 2p correlations) influence the electronic structure and spectral functions of paramagnetic NiO and CoO.
This paper demonstrates that a doubly resonant cascaded nonlinear pathway mediated by a real intermediate state significantly enhances high-lying valley polarization in transition-metal dichalcogenides, offering new perspectives for ultrafast valleytronics by extending quantum-geometric selection rules to the nonlinear regime.
This study reports the optoelectronic characterization of solution-deposited Bi2FeCrO6 and Bi2MnCrO6 thin films as stable, lead-free alternatives for solar cells, demonstrating a 3.56% efficiency for the BMCO-based device and predicting significantly higher performance through future defect control.
This study demonstrates that ultra-weak interlayer antiferromagnetic coupling in synthetic antiferromagnets can spontaneously restore global symmetry and enforce local topological locking of meron lattices, effectively counteracting anisotropy-induced symmetry breaking and structural collapse to stabilize fractional topological textures.
This paper resolves the long-standing discrepancy between theoretical and experimental dielectric constants in ScAlN by demonstrating that the observed "high K" behavior arises from electromechanical inflation, where internal electric fields induce macroscopic lattice strain via the inverse piezoelectric effect.
This paper reports the successful development of MBE-grown InAs p-i-n thermoradiative diodes, identifying specific growth conditions at 450°C that yield devices with breakdown voltages exceeding 0.3 V and reverse saturation current densities 200 times the radiative limit.
This study investigates the magneto-transport properties of Pt/Co78Ho22/Al heterostructures near the compensation temperature, revealing distinct sign reversals in Hall resistivity and enhanced spin Hall magnetoresistance driven by the interplay of 3d and 4f magnetic sublattices, spin-orbit torque, and potential microscopic phase separation.
This study employs advanced theoretical methods to map the quantum phase diagram and RIXS spectra of a 1D spin-1/2 Heisenberg tetramer chain, revealing transitions between Haldane and tetramer phases mediated by a deconfined critical state and identifying distinct fractionalized and collective excitations, including quintons, in materials like CuInVO.