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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 employs first-principles DFT+U calculations to demonstrate that both Zr and B exhibit a strong thermodynamic preference for grain boundaries in recycled Nd2Fe14B magnets, establishing a pathway for the co-localization of these elements that stabilizes the intergranular microstructure and supports high coercivity.
Using ab initio molecular dynamics accelerated by machine-learning force fields, this study reveals that water dissociation on the (110) surfaces of cubic bixbyite rare-earth sesquioxides (ScO, YO, and LuO) proceeds via a previously unreported, energetically preferred, and effectively barrierless distal mechanism driven by the material's inherent undercoordinated sites.
This paper demonstrates that Fourier-transform tunneling spectroscopy can distinguish between static magnetic band reconstruction and dynamical spin-wave renormalization in antiferromagnets by revealing characteristic crossover features in the quasiparticle interference spectrum driven by the real and imaginary parts of the self-energy.
This paper demonstrates that two distinct solution-phase fluorination routes effectively stabilize the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) state in nanodiamonds to near-unity fractions, significantly enhancing charge-state stability while maintaining long spin-lattice relaxation times despite a trade-off with surface noise.
This paper reports the discovery of bulk superconductivity with a transition temperature of 2.5 K in the intrinsically grown moire superlattice material (Sr6TaS8)1+x(TaS2)8, alongside evidence of a charge-density-wave transition near 270 K, establishing bulk moire crystals as a promising platform for exploring correlated quantum phenomena beyond artificial 2D heterostructures.
This paper presents a computationally efficient, first-principles-based framework that combines DFT-calculated binary mixing enthalpies with sub-regular solution models to accurately predict phase fields and solvus boundaries in complex refractory multiple principal element alloys without requiring higher-order interaction fitting, thereby enabling scalable high-throughput design and interactive exploration of their phase diagrams.
This paper introduces a stochastic semiclassical extension of dynamical mean-field theory that self-consistently couples correlated electrons with fluctuating lattice distortions to reveal that the metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide involves two distinct melting events: a dimerization driven by electron coupling and a structural restoration driven by lattice entropy.
By employing time-domain terahertz spectroscopy on silver-iodide-doped silver phosphate glasses, this study reveals that ionic conduction emerges from a crossover to short-range dispersive transport only when high carrier density and bond-bending polarization are embedded within a sufficiently soft glassy matrix, rather than from bound polarization alone.
Using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, this study reveals that a diverse series of conjugated polymers exhibits anomalously weak thermal optical dephasing governed by collective excitonic structure, while demonstrating that the absolute homogeneous linewidth varies depending on whether coherence- or population-detected measurements are employed.
This study reports the synthesis and characterization of non-dimerized CdRuO, demonstrating that spin-orbit coupling significantly enhances electron correlation sensitivity to open a small insulating gap and produce an anomalous magnetic response inconsistent with simple metallic or spin-only models.