condensed matter physics

The EPS honored Jairo Sinova, Libor Šmejkal, and Tomas Jungwirth for identifying altermagnetism, a third fundamental class of magnetism.

Jyväskylä and Aalto researchers grew strained bilayer tin telluride on niobium diselenide, producing protected conducting edge states in a band gap over 0.2 eV.

Researchers self-assembled custom 14-sided silver nanoparticles into superlattices that freeze a transitional phase between FCC and BCC metal structures, and report deep-strong light-matter coupling at room temperature.

A quantum-inspired tensor network method achieves exponential speedup on topological quasicrystals, opening a feedback loop between quantum materials and quantum computer design.

Two back-to-back Nature papers show that removing excess iron atoms from iron telluride unlocks superconductivity at 13.5 Kelvin, overturning a longstanding assumption and suggesting similar hidden quantum states may exist in other correlated materials.

Rice University physicists built magnetoARPES, a new instrument that revealed the first direct momentum-space evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, confirming theoretically predicted loop current orders.

A Kyoto University team applied three types of shear strain to ultra-thin crystals of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 and found virtually no change in its transition temperature, ruling out several leading theoretical models and opening new questions about the material's pairing symmetry.