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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Silicon-compatible ideal antiferroelectricity with large digital electromechanical responses enabled by thermal-strain domain engineering

Hao Xiong, Huazhang Zhang, Liang Shu +16

Antiferroelectrics exhibit reversible antipolar-polar transformations, offering a compelling platform for multiple functionalities in modern nanoelectronics, yet deterministic cont…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

Saturated and Anisotropic Magnetostriction in an Altermagnet

Zhiyuan Duan, Qiyun Xu, Peixin Qin +14

Magnetostriction, a fundamental phenomenon bridging magnetism and mechanics, has enabled a broad spectrum of applications. For almost two centuries, it has been mainly investigated…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Occupation Dynamics of Floquet-Volkov States and Spectral Sum Rule

Xuanxi Cai, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan +9

Time-periodic light fields can dress electronic states in quantum materials, forming Floquet states whose dynamic occupation determines transient material properties. Here by using…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Manipulating Charge Distribution in Moiré Superlattices by Light

Ruiping Guo, Haowei Chen, Wenhui Duan +2

In ordinary solids, nonlinear optical responses are typically studied in terms of unit-cell averages due to the angström-scale lattice constants. In contrast, moiré superlattices,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Two-dimensional Intrinsic Janus Structures: Design Principle and Anomalous Nonlinear Optics

Yang Li, Chengzhi Wu, Xuelian Sun +5

Two-dimensional Janus structures have garnered rapidly growing attention across multidisciplinary fields. However, despite extensive theoretical and experimental efforts, a princip…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Charge disproportionation as a possible mechanism towards polar antiferromagnetic metal in molecular orbital crystal

Yang Shen, Shuai Qu, Gang Li +2

Polar antiferromagnetic metals have recently garnered increasing interests due to their combined traits of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets for spintronic applications. Howev…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Observation of robust macroscale structural superlubricity

Minhao Han, Deli Peng, Dinglin Yang +10

Structural superlubricity (SSL) promises nearly frictionless and wearless sliding, but has until now been considered a special and extreme interfacial phenomenon limited to micro-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ab initio Approach to Collective Excitations in Excitonic Insulators

Fengyuan Xuan, Jiexi Song, Zhiyuan Sun

An ab initio approach is presented for studying the collective excitations in excitonic insulators, charge/spin density waves and superconductors. We derive the Bethe-Salpeter-Equa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Atomically-precise synthesis and simultaneous integration of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides enabled by nano-confinement

Ce Bian, Yifan Zhao, Roger Guzman +15

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and hBN, exhibit intriguing properties that are sensitive to their atomic-scale structure…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 12 cited

Coalescence of multiple topological orders in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth halide chains

Jingyuan Zhong, Ming Yang, Wenxuan Zhao +14

Topology is being widely adopted to understand and to categorize quantum matter in modern physics. The nexus of topology orders, which engenders distinct quantum phases with benefi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Electrical Modulation and Probing of Antiferromagnetism in Hybrid Multiferroic Heterostructures

Yuhan Liang, Huiping Han, Hetian Chen +11

The unique features of ultrafast spin dynamics and the absence of macroscopic magnetization in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials provide a distinct route towards high-speed magneti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 9 cited

Giant tunneling magnetoresistance based on spin-valley-mismatched ferromagnetic metals

Kan Yan, Li Cheng, Yizhi Hu +3

Half metals, which are amenable to perfect spin filtering, can be utilized for high-magnetoresistive devices. However, available half metals are very limited. Here, we demonstrate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Scale-bridging dislocation plasticity in MgO at room temperature

Jiawen Zhang, Zhangtao Li, Yuwei Zhang +7

Dislocations in ceramics have recently gained renewed research interest, in contrast to the traditional belief that ceramics are inherently brittle. Understanding dislocation mecha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A Geometric Pathway for Tuning Ferroelectric Properties via Polar State Reconfiguration

Hao-Cheng Thong, Bo Wu, Fan Hu +7

We report the discovery of a geometric pathway for tuning ferroelectric properties through thermally driven reconfiguration between coexisting polar states in Li-substituted NaNbO3…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nanoscale Polar Landscapes in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3

Yang Zhang, Suk Hyun Sung, Nishkarsh Agarwal +5

SrTiO3 is a textbook quantum paraelectric, with ferroelectricity purportedly suppressed by quantum fluctuations of ionic positions down to the lowest temperatures. The precise real…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Phonons Drive the Topological Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional BiI

Wenjie Hu, Jiayi Gong, Yuhui Qiu +3

Quasi-one-dimensional bismuth halides offer an exceptional platform for exploring diverse topological phases, yet the nature of the room-temperature topological phase transition in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Stable crack propagation in dislocation-engineered oxide visualized by double cleavage drilled compression test

Oliver Preuß, Zhangtao Li, Enrico Bruder +4

Understanding crack tip - dislocation interaction is critical for improving the fracture resistance of semi-brittle materials like room-temperature plastically deformable ceramics.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Strongly enhanced topological quantum phases in dual-surface AlO-encapsulated MnBiTe

Zichen Lian, Yongqian Wang, Yongchao Wang +4

The topological quantum phases in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBiTe hold promise for next-generation spintronics, but their experimental realization has been c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Two-Terminal Electrical Detection of the Néel Vector via Longitudinal Antiferromagnetic Nonreciprocal Transport

Guozhi Long, Hui Zeng, Mingxiang Pan +2

We propose a robust two-terminal electrical readout scheme for detecting the Néel vector orientation in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials by leveraging longitudinal nonreciprocal t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 6 cited

Light-field dressing of transient photo-excited states above

Fei Wang, Wanying Chen, Changhua Bao +4

Time-periodic light-field provides an emerging pathway for dynamically engineering quantum materials by forming hybrid states between photons and Bloch electrons. So far, experimen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 19 cited

Giant Rashba splitting in PtTe/PtTe heterostructure

Runfa Feng, Yang Zhang, Jiaheng Li +11

Achieving a large spin splitting is highly desirable for spintronic devices, which often requires breaking of the inversion symmetry. However, many atomically thin films are centro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Band-spin-valley coupled exciton physics in antiferromagnetic MnPS

Dan Wang, Haowei Chen, Yu Pang +2

The introduction of intrinsic magnetic order in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors offers great opportunities for investigating correlated excitonic phenomena. Here, we employ ful…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 9 cited

Real Space Visualization of Order-Disorder Transition in BaTiO3

Yang Zhang, Xiaoming Shi, Suk Hyun Sung +4

Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 was observed nearly eighty years ago, but the mechanism underlying its ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition remains elusive. The order-disorder tr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 8 cited

Effective reduction in thermal conductivity by high-density dislocations in SrTiO3

Jinxue Ding, Jiawen Zhang, Jinfeng Dong +5

Decreasing thermal conductivity is important for designing efficient thermoelectric devices. Traditional engineering strategies have focused on point defects and interface design.…