activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomistic Machine Learning with Irreducible Cartesian Natural Tensors

Qun Chen, A. S. L. Subrahmanyam Pattamatta, Boyu Wang +2

Atomistic machine learning is a powerful tool for accurate and efficient investigation of material behavior at the atomic scale. While attempts have been made to construct models d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

MatTools: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Materials Science Tools

Siyu Liu, Bo Hu, Beilin Ye +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to materials science questions, including literature comprehension, property prediction, materials discovery and alloy design.…

physics.optics2025

Electron hopping induced phonon pumping in opto-mechanical molecular nanocavities

Yu Bai, Ilya Razdolski, Zhizi Guan +5

Plasmonic molecular nanojunctions exhibit opto-mechanical coupling at the nanoscale, enabling intertwined optical, vibrational and electronic phenomena. Here, we demonstrate plasmo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Why Grain Growth is Not Curvature Flow

Caihao Qiu, David J. Srolovitz, Gregory S. Rohrer +2

Grain growth in polycrystals is traditionally considered a capillarity-driven process, where grain boundaries (GBs) migrate toward their centers of curvature (i.e., mean curvature…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A Mesoscale Model for Interface-Mediated Plasticity: Investigation of Ductile and Brittle Fracture

Jinxin Yu, Alfonso H. W. Ngan, David J. Srolovitzb +1

The presence of interfaces and grain boundaries significantly impacts the mechanical properties of materials, particularly when dealing with micro- or nano-scale samples. Distinct…

physics.optics2025

Hot-electron-injection-induced symmetry breaking in bilayer MoS probed by second-harmonic generation

Zhizi Guan, Zhiwei Peng, David J. Srolovitz +2

Symmetry governs the selection rules of light-matter interactions in crystalline materials, making symmetry manipulation a powerful tool for tuning their optical properties. Here,…