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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 reports the discovery of type-II superconductivity in epitaxial PtSb(0001) thin films grown on SrF2(111), characterized by a transition temperature of 1.72 K, anisotropic upper critical fields, and significant critical current densities, establishing PtSb as a promising platform for heterostructures within the NiAs-type materials family.
This paper introduces novel error metrics and data-generation schemes to streamline the parameterization of machine learning interatomic potentials, successfully applying them to model complex solid-state precipitation in Mg-Nd alloys and revealing competition between order-disorder and structural transformations during aging.
This first-principles study elucidates the microscopic origin of piezomagnetism in MnSn by revealing how strain-induced magnetic moment rotations and Fermi surface pseudo-degeneracy lifting collectively drive strain-induced magnetization through a dual real- and momentum-space analysis.
This review outlines a practical roadmap for bridging the representation gap between experimental disorder descriptions and simulation requirements by integrating conventional methods with AI-driven approaches to enable disorder-native capabilities for realistic materials discovery.
This paper presents first-principles calculations of the temperature and frequency dependence of nitrogen's molecular polarizability and magnetic susceptibility, which, despite being less accurate than high-precision experiments on their own, are combined with experimental data to generate highly accurate semi-empirical estimates for key reference temperatures and to address discrepancies in magnetic susceptibility measurements.
This paper presents a first-principles framework combining density-functional theory, Wannier functions, and charge center evolution to accurately determine the critical electric fields for topological phase transitions in silicene, germanene, and stanene, yielding significantly improved predictions over previous tight-binding models by fully accounting for screened electronic structures and dielectric responses.
This paper introduces an interpretable, end-to-end differentiable mean-field model based on an Ising framework that accurately predicts Li+ solvation shell composition in electrolytes using molecular descriptors, enabling rapid and rational design of localized high-concentration electrolytes with validated performance on unseen systems.
This paper proposes that deviations from the standard Fermi-liquid resistivity arise from collective transport mechanisms, where upward deviations in weakly correlated metals result from additional phonon scattering, while downward deviations in strongly correlated metals like UPt and SrRuO suggest an additional conduction channel analogous to sound-mode heat transport in liquid He.
This paper establishes a high-accuracy Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo benchmark for diverse 2D van der Waals bilayers, revealing systematic failures in widely used density functionals while providing precise interlayer binding energies and charge redistribution data essential for understanding emergent phenomena and developing next-generation functionals.
This paper derives the electromagnetic vacuum stress tensor for cubic crystals and amorphous solids by demonstrating its agreement between microscopic and phenomenological approaches, revealing a nontrivial constant unattainable via macroscopic electrodynamics, and showing that the transverse component in amorphous systems matches Peierls' result for liquids.