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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 direct observation of highly anisotropic exciton dispersion in the 2D semiconductor CrSBr, revealing a record-large linear dispersion along the Y direction driven by long-range electron-hole exchange interactions, while demonstrating negligible coupling between exciton propagation and magnetic order.
This study demonstrates that chlorine alloying in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr systematically localizes excitonic wavefunctions and tunes magneto-excitonic coupling, establishing compositional engineering as a viable strategy for controlling light-matter interactions in magnetic semiconductors.
This paper derives Basquin's law with a power-law exponent of m=3 and an expression for the prefactor A using a linearized Long's plasticity model, successfully validating the theory against experimental fatigue data for PS, PMMA, and PVC amorphous polymers.
This study uses non-equilibrium molecular dynamics to demonstrate that while rough, deformable contacts induce plug flow and cavitation in single-component water and hydrocarbon lubricants, an immiscible two-fluid mixture uniquely minimizes friction and material transfer while sustaining plug flow to lower velocities, despite occasionally forming transient wear particles.
This paper introduces "ridge-spin-layer coupling" in 2D altermagnets, a phenomenon where continuous lines of dispersionless electronic states lock to spin and layer degrees of freedom to enable controllable "ridgetronics" for layer-selective switching and spin-filtered transport, with MgMo(PO), Ca(FeP), and MgV(SO) identified as candidate materials.
This review article examines the recent advancements and unique capabilities of liquid transport growth (LTG), a horizontal flux technique that spatially separates dissolution and crystallization, in producing high-quality single crystals of diverse quantum materials while outlining practical experimental considerations and future directions for the method.
This study combines experimental characterization and first-principles calculations to reveal that while the Cr2AlC MAX phase is primarily a weak metallic paramagnet, it exhibits a minute, reversible light-induced modification of local magnetic moments driven by the redistribution of spin polarization between neighboring Cr sites.
This paper proposes that single-side chlorine adsorption combined with gate-tunable hole doping in monolayer FeSe creates a robust, gate-tunable altermagnetic state with giant spin splitting, establishing a promising platform for exploring the interplay between altermagnetism and superconductivity.
This study identifies metallic grains exhibiting Coulomb blockade and microwave-driven charge tunneling as a widespread, previously unrecognized source of decoherence in solid-state quantum circuits that rivals two-level system defects in impact, offering a clear path to improved device performance through the elimination of these grains during fabrication.
This study reveals that the relaxation of strongly bound ligand field excitons in bulk CrCl3 at room temperature is dominated by exciton-exciton annihilation with a very long spontaneous decay lifetime, enabling the quantification of the annihilation rate constant and its comparison with universal scaling theories.