4797 papers
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 introduces an in situ local learning framework for dynamic network materials that utilizes forward and time-reversed adjoint drives to enable the physical system to autonomously compute gradients and train its own mechanical parameters, thereby allowing the material to acquire diverse dynamical functions directly from tasks without pre-designed structures or expert knowledge.
This paper demonstrates that microwave annealing at 2.45 GHz converts 200 nm tantalum films into tantalum pentoxide significantly faster than conventional furnace heating, while simultaneously enabling real-time, non-invasive monitoring of the oxidation process through shifts in the cavity's resonance frequency and quality factor.
This paper demonstrates that the helicity and polarization orientation of bicircular pump-probe fields can be used to control and manipulate the high-harmonic generation of Weyl semimetals, revealing a sensitive probe for chiral quantum dynamics and electron-hole decoherence that enables light-driven control of topological currents.
This review reassesses nanothermodynamics and Hill's subdivision potential, demonstrating their necessity for resolving thermodynamic heterogeneity, stabilizing finite Ising chains, extending entropy to be exactly extensive, and providing a counterexample to reversible statistical mechanics through irreversible entropy maximization.
This review presents a chemistry-driven perspective on altermagnetism, exploring its fundamental symmetry and electronic origins, surveying material families and characterization methods, and discussing computational discovery strategies and potential technological applications.
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.