INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Nonpolar axis yields 238 V/cm bulk photovoltaic field
Yuzhong Hu +9 · “Composition Anisotropy Drives Large Bulk Photovoltaic Fields Along the Non-polar Vertical Direction in 2D Hybrid Perovskite Ferroelectrics”
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physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Trion drift shoves neutral excitons in the opposite direction
Daniel Vaz +15 · “Counterdirectional Exciton and Trion Motion in Applied Electric Field”
2607.22250 -
physics.app-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-24One ratio sets the precision limit for electrochemical sensing
Eikichi Kimura +8 · “Universal scaling of electrochemical information transfer at solid-liquid interfaces”
2607.22190 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24BN film heat and stiffness jump with growth temperature
Jiaqi Yang +13 · “From Amorphous to Amorphous-Crystalline Mixed-Phase Boron Nitride: Evolution of the Thermal and Elastic Properties”
2607.22185 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24One formula corrects AFM stiffness maps down to thin films
Gabriel Gomila +9 · “Mechanical mapping of thin elastic films and living cells with spherical tip atomic force microscopy probes at large indentations”
2607.22167 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Smallest supercell predicts which grain boundaries are special
Wei Wan · “Accelerating grain boundary modelling and simulation by automated pre-evaluation of the irreducible macroscopic representation”
2607.22090 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Coincidence counting puts a number on graphene contamination
Carolin Frank +8 · “Quantitative Analysis of Composition and Contamination of Atomically Thin Materials by Recoil-Projectile Coincidence in Ion Transmission”
2607.22089 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Nickelate oxyfluoride mimics cuprate's 2D Fermi surface
K. Madani +2 · “Structural stability, electronic structure, and magnetism of the $d^9$ double infinite-layer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_5$F under chemical pressure and epitaxial strain”
2607.22029 -
physics.bio-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Cat hair is a functionally graded composite
Andrew K. Schulz +13 · “Hair is a functionally graded composite, not a uniform fiber”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Room-temperature skyrmions found in a ferrimagnetic crystal
Huanhuan Zhang +12 · “Ferrimagnetic Skyrmions in a Tetragonal Mn1.9Co0.1Sb Single Crystal at Room Temperature”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24High pressure makes 50-nm skyrmions stable at room temperature
Yongsen Zhang +16 · “Enhanced Curie temperature and room-temperature 50-nm skyrmions achieved in hexagonal ferromagnet Mn5Ge3+x synthesized via a high-pressure method”
2607.21891 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Current pulses create skyrmion bags at zero magnetic field
Yaodong Wu +7 · “Current-induced creation and dynamics of embedded magnetic skyrmion bags”
2607.21889 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Pure cubic ice grows directly from liquid at ambient pressure
Chenwei Zheng +13 · “Crystallization of pristine cubic ice from liquid at ambient pressure”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Al-Zn soak raises magnet coercivity 21.7%
Xi Liu +2 · “Effect of Al-Zn alloy wafer grain boundary diffusion on the magnetism and microstructure of sintered NdFeB magnets”
2607.21870 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Guidance steers crystal diffusion to stable magnets and hard materials
Sourav Mal +2 · “Property-Guided Diffusion for Inverse Design of Crystalline Materials”
2607.21849 -
physics.comp-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Switch the ML output to a bispectrum and lattice errors drop fourfold
Elyssa Hofgard +9 · “Learning Lattice Parameters from Powder X-Ray Diffraction Data Using Invariants”
2607.21829 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Nonlinear thermoelectric effects observed at room temperature
Kurea Nakagawa +4 · “Observation of room temperature intrinsic nonlinear thermoelectric effects in low-dimensional semimetals”
2607.21808 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Twisted 2D stack turns linear light circular on a chip
Dmitrii Litvinov +10 · “Towards on-chip nascent all-van-der-Waals polarization optical components for nanoscale photonic applications”
2607.21748 -
eess.IV arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Measure deformation across cracks and holes
Zixiang Tong +1 · “pyALDIC: A Python Implementation of Augmented Lagrangian Digital Image Correlation with a GUI, Adaptive Meshing, and Mask-Aware Subset Splitting”
2607.22755 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Ce and Y edge networks speed oxygen diffusion in high-entropy oxides
Mary Kathleen Caucci +4 · “Ionic Diffusion Properties of Rare-Earth High-Entropy Oxides from a Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential”
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cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Dark spots in electron density expose band topology
Julian Ingham +1 · “Real-Space Imaging of Band Topology via Wavefunction Zeros”
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cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Square-lattice superconductor reaches Chern +2 then −2 via charge order
Zhong-Xian Jin +3 · “Sequential Topological Superconductivity in a Square Lattice with Chiral Charge Density Waves”
2607.21525 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Magnetic field breaks threefold symmetry of charge order in superconductor
Zhen Zhu +17 · “Supercurrent effect in a charge density wave intertwined superconductor”
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physics.chem-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Graph-network force field reaches 16 meV/molecule on 4.4M structures
Yifan Huang +5 · “Graph Neural Network Force Fields (GPTFF-mol) for Organic Molecules from Optimization Trajectories (OpenGEM26)”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23No new Raman modes across PZT's morphotropic phase boundary
Sumit Ranjan Maity +1 · “Symmetry-Adapted Physical and Vibrational Properties of Ferroelectric Perovskite Oxides: Application to PbZrxTi1-xO3”
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cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-23STM pins CrSBr's type-2 defect to a double sulfur vacancy
Jonathan Brunette +7 · “Visualization of Defect Electronic States in Layered Semiconductor CrSBr”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Platinum's XPS satellites traced to one energy-loss map
Prajna Bhatt +11 · “Lifetime effects and satellites in the photoelectron spectrum of platinum metal”
2607.21298 -
physics.chem-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Theory plus measurement fixes nitrogen polarizability at 10 ppm
Jakub Lang +3 · “Determination of fundamental properties of nitrogen from first principles. III. Temperature and frequency dependence of the molecular polarizability and magnetic susceptibility”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23TabPFN predicts TMD alloy optical spectra from composition alone
Vivek Chowdhury +4 · “Machine learning based prediction of optical properties in two-dimensional Mo-W-S-Se-Te transition-metal dichalcogenide alloys through physics-informed sampling”
2607.21246 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Superconductor turns a 2D multiferroic ferromagnetic
B\"u\c{s}ra Gamze Arslan +7 · “Emergent ferromagnetism in the NiI$_2$-NbSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructure”
2607.21218 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Al doping makes Ni2MnSn a cluster glass with exchange bias
Satya Vijay Kumar +11 · “Magneto-Caloric effect and Multiple magnetic phases in Al doped Ni2MnSn0.75Al0.25 Heusler Alloys”
2607.21181 -
physics.comp-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Cracks leave plasticity intact in new fracture model
Fabio Di Gioacchino +6 · “Matrix-free phase-field modeling of fracture in micromechanical testing simulations of inelastic materials”
2607.21150 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Picosecond sync distributes oscillating entanglement over 270 m
Alessandro Laneve +20 · “Picosecond-resolved entanglement distribution over an urban free-space channel”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Altermagnet junction tops 300% TMR at x=0.45 Cr doping
Katsuhiro Tanaka +2 · “Tunnel magnetoresistance effect with a Cr-doped $\mathrm{RuO_{2}}(110)$ altermagnet”
2607.21092 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23All 15 β-Ga2O3 Raman modes fully separated in one fit
Hans Tornatzky +7 · “Complete Raman Tensor Determination in Birefringent $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ by Single-Stage Hyperspectral Analysis of Polarization Angle-Resolved Raman Spectra”
2607.21045 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Laser-annealed garnet yields 13.6 dB isolator on silicon
Tomoya Sugita +7 · “Monolithic Magneto-Optical Mach-Zehnder Isolator Using Laser-Annealed Iron Garnet on a Silicon Waveguide”
2607.20964 -
physics.geo-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Post-perovskite stores over 1% water at the core-mantle boundary
Megumi Semba +7 · “High solubility of water in post-perovskite and bridgmanite in the Earth's deep lower mantle”
2608.00039 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Orbital current alone switches magnets field-free in two layers
Zelalem Abebe Bekele +10 · “Orbital Hall Effect Enables Field-Free Magnetization Reversal in Ferrimagnets without Additional Conversion Layer”
2607.20888 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Hydride pairs prefer adjacent sites in SrTiO3–xHx
Tzu-Chen Liu +1 · “Long- and Short-Range Anion Order in SrTiO$_{3-x}$H$_x$ Perovskite Oxyhydrides: DFT+$U$ Sensitivity and HSE06 Cluster Expansion”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23X-ray diffraction analysis becomes fully automated
Hongqing Wang +7 · “MatDiffract: A Material-Informed Automated Analysis Platform for X-ray Powder Diffraction”
2607.20880 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Photocurrents lift past-pulse recall from 33% to 93%
Yan Meng Chong +5 · “Photo-induced currents and short-term memory for reservoir computing in a ferroelectric semiconductor”
2607.20810 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-22A localized force from a 512-atom cell reproduces the NV- sideband
Zoltan Santha +1 · “First-principles calculation of electron-phonon spectral functions for defects using phonon interpolation”
2607.20788 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-22AI can propose crystals but can't prove they're novel
Xianyuan Liu +11 · “Generative and multimodal AI for materials prediction and design: Progress, challenges, and perspectives”
2607.21660 -
cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Arrhenius curvature traced to three microscopic fluctuations
Soham Chattopadhyay +1 · “Statistical Mechanics of Thermal Diffusion in Rough Energy Landscapes”
2607.22742 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Excited-state relaxation now reaches 500-atom supercells
Yu Jin +3 · “Analytical Forces from the Bethe-Salpeter Equation for Large-Scale Excited-State Relaxation”
2607.20728 -
cs.RO arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Converted 3D printer pipettes fluids for under $1,300
Mohamed Rami Ayeche +5 · “Scalable Low-Cost Laboratory Automation: A Digital Twin-Integrated Robotic Platform for Autonomous Liquid Handling (RAINBOT)”
2607.20662 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-22CrPS4 is a spin spiral, not a ferromagnet
Balazs Nagyfalusi +6 · “Magnetic ground states of CrPS$_4$ and NiPS$_3$ monolayers from long-range exchange interactions”
2607.20631 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-22No short-range lattice model can host ideal Chern bands
Lexu Zhao +3 · “Ideal Bands in Tight-Binding Models”
2607.20624 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Ternary TMDs tune their refractive index from 80 to 670 K
Artsruni Margaryan +6 · “Probing the temperature dependence of dielectric function of ternary transition metal dichalcogenides: towards thermo-driven ultrathin photonic components”
2607.20344 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-22Chromium doping fails to make RuO2 an altermagnet
David T. Plouff +6 · “Competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions in non-altermagnetic Ru$_{1-x}$Cr$_{x}$O$_{2}$”
2607.20298