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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.
Using magneto-Raman spectroscopy on ErFeO₃, researchers demonstrated that the cooperative strong coupling between optical phonons and crystal-field excitations scales linearly with the square root of the excitation population and relies on phonon coherence, offering a new pathway for tailoring the properties of Jahn-Teller materials through population control.
This paper proposes a 1T'-WS/2H-WS heterophase bilayer as a material platform for realizing two-dimensional helical superconductivity, demonstrating that an in-plane magnetic field can induce finite-momentum Cooper pairing and a controllable one-dimensional gapless edge phase that serves as an experimental fingerprint for Majorana-based quantum applications.
This paper presents and validates a practical framework for extracting thermodynamic properties of materials, specifically nitrogen-doped graphene, on neutral-atom quantum computers by mapping DFT-derived energetics to a Rydberg-atom Hamiltonian and employing a single-parameter rescaling strategy to overcome hardware energy scale limitations, thereby enabling the sampling of Boltzmann-like distributions at an effective temperature.
This paper demonstrates a layer-engineered platform based on twisted rhombohedral graphene where the Chern number of the quantum anomalous Hall effect can be programmatically set by the layer configuration and dynamically tuned or switched via electrical fields, enabling the on-demand design of reconfigurable topological states.
This paper demonstrates that while isolated temperature-salinity profiles are insufficient for accurately identifying finite-depth double-diffusive exchange routes, ensemble measurements such as profile bundles and hydrographic sections can effectively resolve these exchange histories and distinguish between different dynamical scenarios.
By demonstrating that steady shear suppresses equilibrium stringlike cooperative rearrangements and can be quantitatively described using a shear-dependent effective temperature, this study establishes a unified microscopic theory linking structural relaxation in glass-forming liquids across both equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions without requiring additional fitting parameters.
Using density functional theory, this study reveals that bond reconstruction mechanisms in monolayer silicon carbide critically determine the stability and quantum properties of vacancy defects, identifying a specific carbon-silicon vacancy aggregate as a promising infrared color-center candidate while demonstrating how reconstruction can suppress optical activity in isolated carbon vacancies.
This paper demonstrates that a machine learning model trained on synthetic data can rapidly and accurately detect polymer diffraction peaks in noisy nanobeam electron diffraction datasets, significantly outperforming conventional correlative algorithms to enable near-live visualization of structure-property relationships in semicrystalline organic mixed ionic electronic conductors.
This paper demonstrates that ordinary disordered materials can support hyperuniform physical fields (such as stress, charge, and vorticity) because local physical operators with gauge-like constraints suppress long-wavelength fluctuations in the derived fields, even when the underlying parent fields remain structurally nonhyperuniform.
This paper demonstrates the first realization of omnidirectional asymmetric topological elasticity in 3D metamaterials, which utilize bending stiffness to elevate zero-frequency states into finite-frequency modes for robust, low-frequency energy isolation and directional wave manipulation.