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 study reveals that while alloying in MoS2xSe2(1-x) continuously tunes optical properties, it causes a severe, disorder-driven collapse in carrier transport at intermediate compositions due to random chalcogen substitution creating scattering barriers and trapping sites, highlighting a critical limitation overlooked by conventional equilibrium probes.
This study demonstrates that polymorph engineering can be used to synthesize stable, epitaxial films of a previously overlooked layered GdAlGe polymorph exhibiting anisotropic ferromagnetism and anomalous Hall effects, offering a blueprint for designing 2D rare-earth magnets compatible with semiconductor technology.
This study demonstrates that pulse-burst excitation breaks time-dose reciprocity in mixed-halide perovskites by enabling the control of distinct metastable states through photon timing, thereby offering a new framework for optical memory and neuromorphic applications.
This study demonstrates that the static and dynamic properties of rough hard-particle fluids across a wide range of densities can be quantitatively predicted by mapping them to equivalent hard-disk systems using an analytically derived effective particle size.
This study demonstrates that the Beyond Quasi-Harmonic (BQH) method, when combined with electronic heat-capacity corrections, accurately predicts the high-temperature molar heat capacity of zirconium carbide by fully capturing anharmonic vibrational effects that are missed by standard quasi-harmonic approximations.
This neutron diffraction study elucidates how correlated vacancies and interstitial water govern the structural stability and magnetic transitions in Prussian blue analogues, revealing that dehydration or moderate magnetic fields can drive a spin reorientation in MnFe from a frustrated state to a collinear ferrimagnetic order by balancing competing exchange interactions.
This paper demonstrates that Chern insulators under open boundary conditions exhibit a robust, topologically protected giant orbital diamagnetism that scales linearly with system size, a phenomenon driven by chiral edge states and fundamentally linked to the divergent diamagnetism observed in massless Dirac systems like graphene.
This paper extends the sample-based Krylov quantum diagonalization method to compute single-particle Green's functions, enabling efficient impurity solvers for dynamical mean-field theory on near-term quantum hardware by reconstructing spectral functions from short-time evolutions in reduced particle-number sectors.
This study utilizes Density Functional Theory to demonstrate that the half-Heusler TbPtBi compound exhibits tunable phase transitions between metallic, topological semimetallic, trivial semimetallic, and semiconducting states driven by spin-orbit coupling and compressive strain, highlighting its potential for quantum device applications.
This study utilizes a Holstein-Primakoff expansion of the Heisenberg Hamiltonian to analyze spin dynamics in zig-zag honeycomb lattices, demonstrating that a standard Heisenberg model with easy-axis anisotropy accurately describes the magnon spectra and inelastic neutron scattering data of -RuCl while revealing direction-dependent Dirac nodes in frustrated configurations.