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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.
EBSDmagus is a software tool designed to automate, manage, and ensure the reproducibility of large-scale, multi-stage dynamical electron backscatter diffraction simulations on high-performance computing systems by handling complex parameter variations, resuming interrupted jobs, and generating FAIR-compliant provenance records.
This paper introduces a squared-Hamiltonian framework demonstrating that lattice relaxation stabilizes the first magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene by balancing confinement and current-like channels near a special uniform confinement point, while simultaneously destabilizing higher-order magic angles through enhanced remote-band hybridization and localization.
This study reveals that perylene red microcrystals exhibit highly mobile singlet excitons driven by a J-like band and incoherent hopping transport, while demonstrating that the observed 610 cm⁻¹ spectral splitting arises from two distinct transitions rather than a traditional Davydov pair.
This paper introduces MLIP Detective, an agentic framework that uses physics-informed search to actively discover and characterize hidden failure modes in universal machine-learning interatomic potentials beyond standard benchmark evaluations, successfully identifying a systematic energy anomaly in the MACE-MPA-0 model.
This perspective article reviews two decades of research from the University of Nottingham that explores the full spectrum of tip-sample interactions in atomic force microscopy, emphasizing the probe's active role in phenomena ranging from van der Waals forces to covalent bonding and atom-by-atom assembly, while also addressing challenges in non-invasive diffusion measurements and the emerging application of machine learning in atomic manipulation.
This review critically evaluates Laser Shock Peening (LSP) as a surface design strategy for mitigating hydrogen embrittlement in high-strength alloys by analyzing the coupled mechanisms of compressive stress, hydrogen transport, and trapping, while identifying key gaps in quantitative performance correlations and proposing mechanism-informed qualification routes.
This paper characterizes the thermal response of an uncoated Protochips Fusion MEMS chip under rapid pulse heating in an in-situ STEM setup, revealing a cooling time constant of 1.80 ms and an average cooling rate of approximately K/s to establish practical thermal limits for high-speed solidification experiments.
This paper demonstrates that coherent phonons in two-dimensional spin-degenerate antiferromagnets can be programmed via pump-field polarization to selectively activate hidden unconventional magnetism, thereby enabling continuous tuning of spin-splitting textures and thermoelectric spin currents without altering the underlying collinear Néel order.
Using qPlus atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy on single-crystal Pb(111), this study experimentally demonstrates that electrostatic screening in a type-I superconductor remains governed by the Thomas-Fermi length rather than the London penetration depth, thereby contradicting J. E. Hirsch's alternative theory and confirming that the longitudinal response is unchanged upon entering the superconducting state.
This study investigates the magnetic properties of single-crystal Kondo lattice materials CeRhGe and CeIrGe, revealing that while CeRhGe exhibits ferromagnetic ordering similar to CeCoGe, CeIrGe displays a complex ferrimagnetic ground state characterized by multiple magnetic transitions and metamagnetic plateaus.