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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 paper establishes a scaling law that expresses the second-order nonlinear Hall conductivity as a polynomial of the linear longitudinal conductivity, where distinct "weight fingerprints" for each mechanism allow for the quantitative disentanglement of quantum-geometric contributions from disorder-induced backgrounds in experimental data.
This study reveals that FeGaTe exhibits a higher Curie temperature than its isostructural counterpart FeGeTe not because of stronger nearest-neighbor interactions, but due to its positive higher-order exchange coefficients which result in a larger total exchange sum.
This study demonstrates a sustainable, scalable chemical vapor deposition strategy for synthesizing Sn-doped Cu2Te (bronze telluride) that achieves a thermoelectric figure of merit of 1 at 500 K and successfully generates voltage in a cascaded module, offering a promising pathway for medium- to high-temperature waste heat recovery.
This paper establishes a symmetry-guided, mechanism-resolved framework that identifies and quantitatively distinguishes 20 distinct mechanisms of third-order nonlinear transport in disordered materials by combining magnetic point group analysis with characteristic scaling laws between nonlinear and linear conductivities.
This study reveals that during the recrystallization of irradiated amorphous GaAs, structural recovery proceeds through distinct low- and high-temperature regimes involving epitaxial growth and nanotwin formation, yet this structural restoration is critically disconnected from electronic recovery, which paradoxically degrades further than in the amorphous state due to the contrasting impacts of long-range order loss versus localized defects.
This study employs first-principles calculations to reveal that electric-field-driven magnetization switching in FePt/BaTiO heterostructures arises from strain-controlled orbital reconstruction at the interface, which modulates spin-orbit coupling to reverse the magnetic easy axis and offers a pathway for ultra-low-power magnetic memory.
This study utilizes time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy combined with ab initio calculations to demonstrate that femtosecond laser excitation of specific coherent -symmetric phonon modes in centrosymmetric 1T-MoTe induces band-selective electron-phonon couplings, resulting in quantifiable ultrafast band renormalizations of a few meV.
This paper proposes that an attractive component arising from Hund's coupling () within a predominantly repulsive onsite exchange interaction () in a single-band Hubbard model provides a mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity, successfully reproducing the superconducting dome and doping asymmetry in cuprates and iron pnictides.
The paper introduces DeepCormack, a hybrid model-based and deep-learning algorithm that significantly accelerates and improves the quality of 3D Fermi surface reconstructions from ACAR data by generating realistic synthetic training sets via singular value and dynamic mode decomposition, thereby reducing acquisition times from months to weeks.
This paper proposes that large-angle twisted van der Waals multilayers can realize intrinsically three-dimensional, non-foliated fractional quantum Hall phases with irrational anyons by suppressing interlayer tunneling while preserving Coulomb interactions, thereby overcoming the traditional obstruction to 3D topological order.