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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 proposes a diffusion framework that jointly generates crystal structures and local electronic descriptors (such as Bader charges and atomic DOS) to significantly improve the success rate, diversity, and physical validity of inverse materials design compared to structure-only baselines.
This study utilizes a multi-probe approach combining macroscopic first-order reversal curve measurements and microscopic infrared imaging to correlate the growth, interaction, and nucleation of domains with thermal hysteresis across the metal-insulator transition in VO thin films with varying grain sizes.
This feature article surveys the architectures and materials enabling strong light-matter coupling to form polaritons, discusses key phenomena and research tools, and highlights how these hybrid excitations can be used to control optical, electronic, and chemical properties.
This paper reviews the historical development and experimental findings of spin caloritronics, a field integrating spintronics with thermal transport, while discussing future prospects across measurement techniques, physics, materials science, and engineering applications as the discipline transitions from fundamental research to practical materials science.
This paper employs a physics-informed neural network to model the dose-dependent spectral degradation of the metal-organic framework MIL-101(Fe) using in situ low-loss EELS data, revealing that C–O and C–C bonds are the most sensitive to electron-beam damage while identifying a mixed low-energy response in the – window.
This study resolves the paradox of elusive half-metallicity in vacancy-doped monolayer 1T-TiS₂ by demonstrating that a universal geometric percolation transition at a critical vacancy concentration of approximately 12.5% is required to connect local magnetic moments into a spanning cluster, thereby defining a narrow functional window (11% < x < 15%) for achieving itinerant half-metallic ferromagnetism.
This study demonstrates that compositionally tuning BaSrTiO to a transitional regime (specifically Sr) optimizes the balance between energy density and durability by suppressing electrical leakage while maintaining substantial polarization, thereby enabling stable, high-efficiency pyroelectric energy harvesting from low-grade heat without external bias.
This study demonstrates that microscale bending plasticity in amorphous aluminum oxide films is highly dependent on the deposition method and defect distribution, with pulse laser deposited and atomic layer deposited films showing significant ductility while sputter-deposited films fail brittly, though all exhibit similar fracture toughness and lack localized crack tip plasticity.
This first-principles study of the ferrochiral phase transition in BaTiOCu(PO) identifies antiferroically ordered atomic-site electric toroidal dipole moments as the order parameter for antiferroaxial rotations and establishes that the overall chiral order arises from the composite ordering of antipolar electric dipole and electric toroidal dipole moments.
This paper provides answers to questions regarding the physical background, practical handling, and potential applications of mid-infrared photo-induced force microscopy (IR-PiFM), including its use in studying antimicrobial interactions, based on discussions from the April 2026 Faraday Discussions conference.