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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 demonstrates that oxygen and fluorine functionalization, combined with cryogenic temperatures, significantly lowers the sulfur sputtering energy threshold in MoS via the formation of volatile products, thereby widening the ion energy window for selective, damage-controlled chalcogen removal in transition metal dichalcogenide plasma processing.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that faster cation diffusion along grain boundaries with a higher activation enthalpy than bulk diffusion () is possible in acceptor-doped perovskites when the grain-boundary space-charge layers accumulate a high concentration of slower isolated vacancies that, despite their lower individual mobility, collectively enable rapid transport compared to bulk diffusion driven by a small concentration of faster neutral defect associates.
This paper introduces a suite of convolutional neural network classifiers based on the ZeoNet representation that significantly outperform previous methods in distinguishing experimentally synthesized zeolites from computationally predicted hypothetical structures, thereby identifying a small subset of promising candidates for future synthesis.
This paper presents a novel setup utilizing a MEMS actuator to apply tailored in-situ mechanical strain to freestanding ferroic thin films, demonstrating successful control over the coupled ferroelectric and spin cycloidal configurations in an 80 nm BiFeO3 multiferroic film.
This study characterizes phase changes in natural olivine from Mortlake, Australia, after high-temperature annealing up to 1500°C by correlating magnetization, X-ray spectroscopy, and a novel polarized infrared reflectance technique that assigns synthetic RGB colors to specific absorbance and reflectance bands.
This study reports the hydroflux synthesis and characterization of KCo(TeO) 2.5 HO, a novel zemannite-type cobalt antiferromagnet with a pseudo-honeycomb dimer structure that exhibits long-range magnetic order below 7.6 K driven by antiferromagnetic interactions through bridging tellurite groups.
This paper proposes a new classification framework for magnon thermal Hall systems, demonstrating that antiferromagnets with multiple magnetic sublattices naturally host non-Abelian SU(N) gauge fields that circumvent the symmetry-enforced cancellations limiting ferromagnets, thereby establishing a robust mechanism for thermal Hall transport in materials like coplanar 120° antiferromagnets.
This paper presents a generalized probabilistic reparameterization method that enables gradient-based Bayesian optimization for mixed-variable problems with non-equidistant discrete spaces, demonstrating its robustness and efficiency for real-world scientific applications and autonomous laboratories.
This study demonstrates that while Sn and Fe additives enhance the activity and stability of Pd-based electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation in alkaline media, Nb additives induce severe dissolution that destabilizes the catalyst, highlighting the critical need to evaluate additive stability during the design phase for direct alcohol fuel cell applications.
This paper demonstrates a novel route to multifunctional nanostructures by engineering laterally differentiated polymorphs of iron garnet and perovskite on patterned substrates, enabling electric-field control of the garnet's magnonic and magnetooptical properties for voltage-driven devices.