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Exciton phase shift flips SHG to destructive in AA-stacked MoTe2/WSe2

Normally 0-degree stacking should add constructively, yet distinct layer resonances produce a π phase difference that cancels the signal.

· “Destructive interference of second harmonic generation in AA stacked MoTe₂/WSe₂”

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Chain intercalation breaks Tc-spacing trade-off in TaS2

Ba-S-S-Ba chains create 12.75 angstrom gaps between bilayers while enabling enhanced transition temperature and Ising superconductivity.

· “Breaking the Trade-off: Bulk 2D Ising Superconductivity with High Tc and Giant Interlayer Spacing via a Unique Chain Intercalation in (BaS)1/3TaS2”

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Electric fields switch spin currents in predicted 2D altermagnet

Monolayer (CoCl)2Te shows giant spin splitting that responds to field angle or polarity depending on doping.

· “Two-Dimensional Spin-Antiferroelectric Altermagnets with Giant Spin Splitting: From Model to Material Realization”

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Substrate imbalance enables Néel switching in 2D antiferromagnet

Single-layer Cr2S3 shows size-dependent hysteresis from a tiny net moment, remaining air-stable for days.

· “Atomic-Scale Detection of N\'eel Vector Switching in the Single-Layer A-type Antiferromagnet Cr2S3-2D”

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Copper-graphene composites gain 17.1% conductivity with continuous graphene

Linear scaling with surface area and stronger gains on curved copper shapes supply design rules for better conductors.

· “Electrical Conductivity of Copper-Graphene (Cu-Gr) Composites: The Underlying Mechanisms of Ultrahigh Conductivity”

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Stepped interfaces enable BCC plastic flow in Cr-Ni eutectic

Nanoscale structure and local chemistry allow room-temperature co-deformation at high stresses without cracking.

· “Strengthening and interface-mediated plastic co-deformation in an ultrafine Cr-Ni eutectic: A nanomechanical investigation”

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Diamond anvil cell reaches 933 MPa with 19 mm³ d-t sample

New device for muon fusion studies exceeds prior pressure and temperature limits for static deuterium-tritium targets while handling 25 Ci t

· “The MuFusE Large-Volume Diamond Anvil Cell for Exploring Muon-Catalyzed Fusion at Higher Pressures and Temperatures”

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Simulations show graphene sheets forming in SiCN ceramics

ML potential enables 8000-atom simulations showing phase separation from amorphous matrix with network preserved and experimental match.

· “Modeling phase separation in polymer-derived silicon carbonitride ceramics through extended machine learning molecular dynamics”

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LLM agent refines neutron data to lower Rwp than experts

The Rongzai assistant runs full Rietveld analysis via GSAS-II and beats or matches human specialists on three of five tested samples.

· “Rongzai agent: A Large Language Model-Based Autonomous Assistant for Rietveld Refinement of Neutron Diffraction Data”

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Equilibrium vacancy concentration fixes screening reference for CaMnO3

OVFE curves referenced to this minimum match experimental reduction enthalpies and distinguish A-site versus B-site doping mechanisms.

· “Oxygen vacancies beyond the dilute limit in doped CaMnO3 perovskites and implications for screening materials in thermochemical applications”

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Yield-stress bath expands frontal polymerization to low-viscosity polymer inks

Embedded printing decouples shape retention from chemistry, enabling smaller features and complex interlinked thermoset architectures.

· “Embedded Direct Ink Writing of Thermoset and Elastomeric Polymers via Frontal Polymerization”

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Body-centered tetragonal lattice frustrates harmonic and solitonic magnetism

In GdAlSi an applied field switches between cycloidal and double-Q states whose X-ray signatures match mean-field theory.

· “Frustration of harmonic and solitonic helimagnetism on the body-centered tetragonal lattice of GdAlSi”

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Field-induced excitations create zero-magnetization plateaus

In antiferromagnetic spin-dimer chains the applied field generates local excitations that produce the plateau without single-ion anisotropy.

· “Field-Induced Local Excitations Causing Zero-Magnetization Plateaus in Antiferromagnets of Antiferromagnetic Spin Dimers Under Magnetic Field”

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GaGe2Te pairs high cross-plane power factor with ultralow thermal conductivity

High-throughput screening shows weak polar optical phonon scattering lets layered materials keep high electrical conductivity while lattice热

· “Weak Polar Optical Phonon Scattering Decouples Electron and Phonon Transport in Layered Thermoelectric Materials”

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TiO2 plate disinfects well water in 10 minutes under sun

Field study shows complete coliform inactivation in all samples versus 51% reduction with standard SODIS, for low-cost rural use.

· “Solar photocatalytic disinfection of well water using immobilized TiO₂: A comparative field study with SODIS in Antananarivo”

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Ferroelectric reversal inverts magnon thermal Hall conductivity

In 2D antiferromagnetic multiferroics, switching electric polarization swaps sublattice asymmetries to flip the net Berry curvature and heat

· “Symmetry-dictated switching of antiferromagnetic magnon transport in 2D multiferroics”

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Interlayer excitons sit 45 meV above intralayer states in 2D perovskite

Polarization data and calculations assign the low-energy multiplet to symmetry and distortions, ruling out Rashba as the main cause.

· “Intra- and Interlayer Excitonic Fine Structure of the Two-Dimensional Perovskite (PEA)₂PbI₄”

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Interference rotates supersolids in ring-cavity BEC without stirring

Annular condensate coupled to traveling-wave modes yields tunable rotational supersolids and cavity-detectable Goldstone-Higgs excitations.

· “Supersolid Rotation in an Annular Bose-Einstein Condensate coupled to a Ring Cavity”

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Kerr imaging reveals movable altermagnetic domains in MnTe

Two distinct time-reversal symmetry breaking regions produce large optical rotations and shift under magnetic fields or heat despite near-c零

· “Magneto-optical imaging of macroscopic altermagnetic domains in MnTe”

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Simulations establish stable charge-4e superconductivity at zero temperature

In the attractive SU(4) Hubbard model, quartet order replaces pair order at strong coupling through a non-Landau transition whose exponents

· “Quantum Charge-4e Superconductivity and Deconfined Pseudocriticality in the Attractive SU(4) Hubbard Model”

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New Cr telluride shows 130 K anomaly in reconstructed lattices

Interwoven Archimedean and kagome-derived networks host a small-entropy, field-independent transition consistent with electronic or magnetic

· “Cs₄Cr₇Te₁₀: Interwoven Reconstructed Archimedean and Kagome Lattices with a Possible Phase Transition near 130 K”

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Tungsten traps more deuterium at high doses when irradiated hot

1350 K self-ion damage creates nm voids that raise D retention to 1.7 at.% at 2.3 dpa with no saturation, unlike cooler irradiations.

· “Damage dose dependence of deuterium retention in high-temperature self-ion irradiated tungsten”

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Biquadratic and anisotropy terms needed for Mn phosphate 1/3 plateau

Fitting magnetization data shows both interactions must be present to match susceptibility transitions and specific heat.

· “Microscopic model for the ground state, 1/3 plateau and excitations of γ-Mn₃(PO₄)₂”

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Bandit method screens oxide dopants at 14 percent the usual cost

It locates the best band-gap candidate in every trial of a 529-candidate search by replacing most DFT evaluations with surrogates.

· “Accelerated Dopant Screening in Oxide Semiconductors via Multi-Fidelity Contextual Bandits and a Three-Tier DFT Validation Funnel”

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Annealing selects structure for ambient superconductivity in nickelate films

STEM and transport data tie oxygen homogeneity and stacking order to the metastable phase in La3Ni2O7 thin films.

· “Decoding Superconductivity in La₃Ni₂O_(7-δ) Thin Films via Ozone-Driven Structure and Oxidation Tuning”

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Water defects localize polarons to activate N2 on TiO2

This surface synergy enables photocatalytic ammonia production at ambient conditions by positioning electrons for bond breaking.

· “Synergistic Interplay between Surface Polarons and Adsorbates for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction on TiO₂(110)”

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Magnetic moments become explicit variables in neural interatomic potentials

Equivariant message-passing model learns non-collinear magnetism and spin-orbit coupling at near DFT accuracy through data-efficient fine-t

· “Equivariant Many-body Message Passing Interatomic Potentials for Magnetic Materials”

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Charge transition levels set grain-boundary speeds in oxides

Phase-field simulations of Fe-doped SrTiO3 link CTLs to faster hole transport than dopant diffusion, producing distinct slow and fast moving

· “Impact of charge transition levels on grain boundary properties in acceptor doped oxide ceramics: A phase-field study”

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Lateral excitation yields over 99% efficient high-overtone resonators

X HTBAR on LiNbO3 film delivers stable 5.75 MHz spacing, quality factors to 10^5, and tunable volumes for quantum uses.

· “Impedance-matched High-Overtone Thickness-Shear Bulk Acoustic Resonators with Scalable Mode Volume”

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Relativistic LAPW tweaks change actinide lattices by 0.15 Å

New Dirac-based radial functions and adjusted spin-orbit constants shift properties and show UO2 has a persistent 0.2-0.4 eV gap at Fermi

· “Alternative treatment of relativistic effects in linear augmented plane wave (LAPW) method: application to Ac, Th, ThO2 and UO2”

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Fluctuating diffusivity unifies non-Gaussian Brownian motion and anomalous diffusion

A single stochastic model produces linear mean-square displacement with non-Gaussian statistics plus trajectory variability and ageing in 60

· “Anomalous statistics in the Langevin equation with fluctuating diffusivity: from Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion to anomalous diffusion and ergodicity breaking”

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Nagaoka ferromagnet destabilized by kinetic frustration above critical t'/t

DMRG reveals quantum phase transition to spiral spin-density wave evolving into Haerter-Shastry antiferromagnet, robust at finite hole

· “Instability of Nagaoka State and Quantum Phase Transition via Kinetic Frustration Control”

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