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8,187 reviewed papers in cond-mat.mtrl-sci · newest first · page 1

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  1. physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-13
    46-nm crystal switches light's orbital angular momentum on demand

    Paolo Valisa +11 · “All-optical switching of nonlinear structured light in crystal-engineered van der Waals materials”

    2608.13548
  2. cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-13
    Baking niobium shifts its screening current below the surface

    Ryan M. L. McFadden +2 · “Insight into SRF cavity performance from simulations of Nb's surface oxide dissolution and diffusion”

    2608.13540
  3. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Random strain and dark states reproduce SiV spectra

    Tommy Chin +6 · “Impact of strain and dark states on spectroscopic measurements of silicon-vacancy centers in diamond”

    2608.11168
  4. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    A TiO2 shell can coat magnetic cores without killing either function

    Wagner Henrique Gamas +4 · “Structural, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Superparamagnetic Fe3O4@TiO2 and Fe3O4@SiO2@TiO2 CoreShell Nanostructures”

    2608.11165
  5. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Alloy disorder turns one band crossing into a Weyl-semimetal window

    A. Kr\'olicka +6 · “Tunable chiral anomaly in electron magnetotransport in the Weyl semimetallic Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te:Cr alloy”

    2608.11148
  6. physics.med-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    0.35, 1.5, 3 T: MRI phantom recipes measured and tabled

    H Michael Gach +2 · “T1, T2, and complex permittivities of hydrogels, paramagnetic salt solutions, and oils at 0.35, 1.5, and 3 Tesla”

    2608.11117
  7. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Alq3 glass deposited at 340 K resists crystallization 10x longer

    Kushal Bagchi +4 · “Stable Glasses of Organic Semiconductor Resist Crystallization”

    2608.11102
  8. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Co turns FeSb2 altermagnetic

    Enrico Di Lucente +1 · “Competition between local magnetic disorder and altermagnetism in doped FeSb$_2$”

    2608.11089
  9. cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    A 17 K rise equals a tenfold slower deposition for glassy order

    Camille Bishop +5 · “Using Deposition Rate and Substrate Temperature to Manipulate Liquid Crystal-like Order in a Vapor-deposited Hexagonal Columnar Glass”

    2608.11081
  10. cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Mobility data can't explain polymer glasses' second overshoot

    Grigori A Medvedev +3 · “Multi-step deformation experiment and development of a model for the mechanical behavior of polymeric glasses”

    2608.11069
  11. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Machine-learning screen finds 436 extreme work-function surfaces

    Jun Meng +3 · “Accelerated Discovery of Materials with Extreme Work Functions through Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Fidelity Screening”

    2608.11062
  12. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    1,127 simulated spectra map NMC811's oxygen environments

    Jian He +4 · “Oxygen K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Database for NMC811 Layered Cathode Materials”

    2608.10910
  13. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Flexural modes of skyrmion strings follow a sin-squared ladder

    Eugene M. Chudnovsky +1 · “Oscillation modes of skyrmion strings in a ferromagnetic film”

    2608.10902
  14. cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Magnons travel 2.7x farther along one axis of CrPS4

    Krishnaraajan Sundararajan +4 · “Anisotropic magnon spin transport in CrPS$_4$”

    2608.10802
  15. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Li5N electride predicted stable and reflective up to 382 GPa

    M. Abdul Hadi Shah +1 · “High-pressure electride superconductor Li5N for multifunctional applications: A theoretical insight into the physical properties”

    2608.10768
  16. cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Strain magnetizes integer-spin altermagnets via quantum modes

    Daisuke Yamamoto +1 · “Quantum Mechanism of Piezomagnetism in Higher-Spin Altermagnets”

    2608.10735
  17. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Atomistic model predicts aluminum spall strength within 6 percent

    S Madhavan · “Multi-scale modeling of high strain rate deformation and spall fracture in poly-crystalline metals”

    2608.10734
  18. physics.chem-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Spin rotatory strength is the equilibrium CISS observable

    Rub\'en Dar\io Guerrero · “Spin Rotatory Strength as the Equilibrium Observable for Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity”

    2608.10697
  19. quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Nanodiamonds survive 1800–2120 K before turning to graphite

    M. De Feudis +8 · “Nanoscale graphitization and defect evolution in silicon-vacancy center-containing nanodiamonds under high-pressure high-temperature annealing”

    2608.10632
  20. cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Carrier density, not structure, flips Cr-NbSe2 magnetism

    Xiang S.W. Huang +12 · “Carrier-tunable RKKY magnetism in a crystalline magnet”

    2608.10574
  21. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    In CrBr2 and CrI2, a two-bond rivalry sets the magnetic helix

    John A. Schneeloch +3 · “Helimagnetism from competing intra- and interchain interactions in CrBr$_2$ and CrI$_2$”

    2608.10263
  22. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Metal predicted to out-conduct aluminum

    Sungyeb Jung +8 · “Balanced electron and phonon heat transport in metallic $\varepsilon$-TaN”

    2608.10243
  23. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Nearly atom-perfect NiO/Ga2O3 interface found on the (100) face

    Michelle A. Smeaton +7 · “Revealing the Atomic Structure of NiO/Ga$_{2}$O$_{3}$ Interfaces”

    2608.10226
  24. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Layered 4H-SnS2 shows room-temperature ferroelectric switching

    Abhishek Bajgain +4 · “Light Polarization Sensitive Transistor Action in the van der Waals ferroelectric 4H-SnS2”

    2608.10174
  25. physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    FFT thickness probe is repeatable but off by 0.62 μm

    Zimu Zhou +3 · “Practical Evaluation of FFT-Based Thickness Extraction for Thick-Film Reflectometry”

    2608.10146
  26. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    TiWCO2 MXene predicted to show colossal nonlinear Hall effect

    Rajdeep Biswas +1 · “MXene with Janus Structure at Transition metal site -A route to Emergent Properties”

    2608.10122
  27. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Atom-informed heat fields port into Abaqus and reveal hidden hot paths

    W. Downs +3 · “Solver-Agnostic Implementation of Atom-Informed Thermal Conductivity Fields in Continuum Heat-Flow Simulations”

    2608.10099
  28. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Cell natural orbitals single out the orbitals that span twisted WSe2

    Harshitra Mahalingam +3 · “Cell Natural Orbitals in Quantum Materials”

    2608.10059
  29. cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    One local orbital can never capture a Chern band

    Nishchhal Verma +3 · “Cell Natural Orbitals in Interacting Topological Bands”

    2608.09932
  30. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    90-million-atom powder pattern in 52 minutes

    Navid Panchi +4 · “AES-Debye: an Accurate, Efficient, and Scalable Engine for Debye Scattering Calculations”

    2608.09916
  31. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Sapphire grows larger PtNi crystallites than langasite

    M. Awais Fiaz +5 · “Substrate-dependent thermally driven morphological evolution of Pt$_{0.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$ thin films on sapphire and langasite”

    2608.09909
  32. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Aromatic nitriles shed their CN group before the ring breaks

    Sam McGrath +8 · “Infrared Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Aromatic Nitriles in Para-Hydrogen Matrices”

    2608.09889
  33. cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Double-well lattice coupling turns polaron mobility concave

    Stefano Ragni +3 · “Anomalous temperature dependence of polaron mobility in a nonlinear double-well potential: unbiased X-propagator approach”

    2608.09883
  34. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    X-ray maps strain and rotation at single dislocations

    C. Yildirim +7 · “Spatially resolved elastic strain and lattice rotation at threading dislocations in HgCdTe/CdZnTe epilayers by dark-field X-ray microscopy”

    2608.09841
  35. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Polar vortices push 10-nm strain into the magnetic SrRuO3 layer

    S. A. Raza +9 · “Polar-vortex-driven interfacial strain coupling in PbTiO3/SrRuO3 Heterostructures”

    2608.09815
  36. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Simulation predicts battery interphase chemistry from electrolyte alone

    Xinyu Li +5 · “Predictive Simulation of Interphases on Li Metal Surface”

    2608.09791
  37. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    One phase-field model couples segregation

    Prakarsh Pandey +1 · “Numerical modeling of microstructure evolution in nanocrystalline alloys - grain boundary segregation, solute drag and mechanics”

    2608.10048
  38. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Metallicity survives asymmetric chemistry in 14 of 15 Janus MXenes

    S. \"Ozcan +1 · “Preserved metallicity and tunable magnetism in Zr-based Janus MXenes”

    2608.09645
  39. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    One spin-bond algebra unifies all spin-split magnet classes

    S. Allende +1 · “A spin-bond theory unifying non-relativistic spin splitting and emergent spin-orbit textures”

    2608.09644
  40. cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Quantum dot shape sets excited trion fine structure

    M.M. Glazov +1 · “Long-range exchange interaction controls the fine structure of excited trion states in semiconductor quantum dots”

    2608.09554
  41. physics.app-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Oxide transistors stack in three functional layers on 200 mm wafers

    Chang Niu +11 · “200 mm Wafer-Scale Monolithic 3D Integration of Atomic Layer-Deposited Oxide Semiconductors”

    2608.09508
  42. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Ethylene at 800 °C turns Si(111) into a 9 nm 3C-SiC layer

    Pranjali Jadhao +8 · “Time-resolved study of carbonization and growth of ultrathin 3C-SiC on Si(111) under ultra-high vacuum”

    2608.09431
  43. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Zero-field nonlinear Hall effect appears in altermagnet MnTe

    Wei Zhou +8 · “Magnetotransport evolution and nonlinear Hall effect in altermagnetic MnTe”

    2608.09371
  44. physics.ins-det arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Cutting at 54.7° opens Halbach spheres with vanishing pull

    Ingo Rehberg +2 · “Openable Force-Balanced Halbach Magnets: From Fibonacci Sphere Simulations to Icosahedral Realizations”

    2608.09323
  45. cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Oxide TFT band-tail states shrink exponentially as channels lengthen

    Chang Niu +7 · “Size-Dependent Band-Tail Localization in Oxide Semiconductors Revealed by Direct Density-of-States Mapping”

    2608.09283
  46. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Recursion features cut octet-stability error by more than half

    Rohan Kumar (1) +9 · “Machine-learning octet $AB$-type binary compounds across chemical space with domain knowledge of the interatomic bond”

    2608.09257
  47. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Bond-aware features cut octet-binary stability error to 0.029 eV

    Rohan Kumar (1) +9 · “Machine-learning octet $AB$-type binary compounds across chemical space with domain knowledge of the interatomic bond”

    2608.09257
  48. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    AFM learns two wafer maps from one scan per site

    Aditya Raghavan +4 · “Multitask Scanning Probe Microscopy”

    2608.09104
  49. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    No atomic disorder needed: Mn7C3 is a spin glass at 37.4 K

    Zekun Yu +14 · “Self-induced crystalline fluctuation spin-glass state in Mn7C3 binary compounds”

    2608.09065
  50. cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    DFT predicts altermagnetism in iron-based Janus monolayers

    Mengyang Zhang +5 · “Altermagnetism-Induced Spin-resolved electronic structure in Janus FeX0.5Y0.5 Monolayers (X, Y = S, Se, Te)”

    2608.09054