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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 establishes a general framework for identifying twist and strain configurations in moiré heterostructures by analyzing moiré images, demonstrating that while wavelength data alone yields multiple possibilities, incorporating constraints like minimum elastic energy and electronic spectra allows for the determination of the most likely physical configuration.
This paper introduces SpinGraph, an automated workflow that leverages spin space groups and graph theory to generate symmetry-distinct magnetic configurations and integrates with AMATIS to enable the fully automated construction of spin Hamiltonians for studying magnetic properties.
This first-principles study characterizes the structural, mechanical, vibrational, thermal, electronic, and optical properties of the topological Dirac semimetal Na3Bi, revealing its stability, semimetallic nature with Dirac points, and potential for applications in acoustic damping, UV sensing, and optoelectronics.
This study demonstrates that mechanically exfoliating molecular crystals like tetracene into atomically thin layers preserves their crystalline order, enabling systematic control over excitonic properties such as Davydov splitting and Stokes shift through thickness-dependent modifications in molecular packing, intermolecular coupling, and dielectric screening.
This study demonstrates that machine-learned simulations reveal halide ordering as a critical factor governing structural phase transitions and miscibility gaps in mixed-halide perovskites, where such ordering significantly shifts transition temperatures and explains non-linear composition dependencies that are mitigated by Rb substitution.
This paper introduces a bond-orientational order metric to complement the translational order metric , demonstrating through analysis of hard-particle, random sequential addition, and stealthy hyperuniform systems that while bond-orientational order is generally subdominant to translational order, the two metrics are positively correlated and reveal distinct, preparation-dependent structural trajectories.
This paper identifies the capacitance of transport layers as the fundamental bottleneck causing transient ion current (BACE) measurements in perovskite solar cells to overestimate ion density, and proposes correction methods based on ionic displacement and transport layer thickness extrapolation to accurately quantify ionic parameters.
This study utilizes reactive molecular dynamics simulations to demonstrate that while amorphous carbon nanotubes and nanoscrolls exhibit lower critical fracture strains than their crystalline counterparts, their similar melting points and mechanical behaviors indicate that structural disorder overrides the topological differences that typically distinguish pristine nanotubes from nanoscrolls.
This molecular dynamics study reveals that the self-folding and self-scrolling behaviors of edge-deformed graphene sheets into graphene-based nanofolds or nanoscrolls are critically determined by the initial edge twist angles and temperature, with specific configurations leading to single-folded, multi-folded, or dual-state morphologies.
Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that while graphene and mixed graphene/graphane nanoribbons can dynamically form nanoscrolls around carbon nanotubes within specific temperature ranges, fully hydrogenated graphane nanoribbons only wrap the nanotube without scrolling.