INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10DFT 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 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Phonon dephasing brings MgB2 conductivity closer to experiment
Mingran Kong +1 · “Electronic conductivity in anharmonic crystals: Phonon dephasing in the electron-phonon interaction”
2608.09050 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Adding humidity after ion bombardment wrinkles polymer films
Alessia Danagoulian +15 · “Wrinkling in Selected Polymer Thin Films Induced by Combined Ion Beam and Humidity Exposure”
2608.09041 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Anharmonic phonon dephasing alters electron-phonon scattering rates
Mingran Kong +1 · “Anharmonic dephasing in the electron-phonon interaction”
2608.09039 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Near-compensated CoGd cuts oscillator current 16-fold at 5 mT
Jiayu Lei +7 · “Energy-efficient spin Hall nano-oscillators using CoGd ferrimagnets”
2608.09021 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Magneto-optical isolators work across a full 4-inch silicon wafer
Tianchi Zhang +11 · “Wafer-scale monolithic integration of Ce:YIG films and magneto-optical isolators on silicon”
2608.09003 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Mid-infrared light flips SnSe into a hidden phase at a sharp threshold
Jiaojian Shi +26 · “Nonresonant optomechanical control of structural phases”
2608.08899 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-091.25 billion coordinates map methane adsorption in zeolites
Marko Petkovi\'{c} +3 · “A Dataset of Equilibrium State Configurations of Adsorption in Zeolites”
2608.08848 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Symmetry locks chiral Majorana modes to a single layer
Yijie Mo +1 · “Layer-Locked Chiral Topological Superconductivity”
2608.08843 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09UV light puts NiO into a 600 ps hybridized state
Thomas C. Rossi +21 · “Light-Stabilized Metastable Electronic State in NiO with Enhanced Orbital Hybridization2”
2608.08842 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Molecular motion reshapes organic solar efficiency forecasts
Steve Cabrel Teguia Kouam +6 · “Temperature-Driven Sequential Modeling for the Prediction of Annual Power Conversion Efficiency Profiles of Organic Photovoltaic Materials: Douala Case Study”
2608.11261 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Ionic infiltration cuts cathode resistance to 0.04 Ω·cm²
Rakhi Saha +6 · “Distribution of Relaxation Times analysis of evolution of Oxygen Reduction Pathways for ionic conductor infiltration on MIEC cathode”
2608.08767 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09CrSb films lose spin splitting when Cr–Sb hops vanish
Dai Mingyang +4 · “Microscopic Origin of Spin Splitting in Altermagnetic CrSb Thin Films”
2608.08741 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Retrofitted sputter chamber finds 2.3 MV/cm ferroelectric film
Stanislav A. Udovenko +7 · “An Automated Magnetron Sputtering Chamber for Ferroelectric Thin Film Deposition”
2608.08647 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Diamond films grown under 400 °C hit 73–86 W/m·K
Jinwen Liu +8 · “High Thermal Conductivity of Back-End-of-Line Compatible Diamond Films”
2608.08534 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Alloying cuts spin-oscillator threshold by 60 percent
Utkarsh Shashank +13 · “Spin-Orbital Hall Nano-Oscillators using PtCr/NiFe”
2608.08504 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09One functional unifies open-boundary electrostatics in DFT
Rajat Kumar +3 · “Unified open-boundary electrostatics in real-space density functional theory”
2608.08474 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-09New h-BP model: zigzag tensile strength near 65 GPa
Zahabul Islam · “Thermo-mechanical Characterization of 2D hexagonal Boron Phosphide (h-BP)”
2608.08415 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Stripe-domain texture cancels 99% of magnon-phonon coupling
Nimisha Arora +6 · “Magnetoelastic coupling in stripe-domain states of yttrium iron garnet”
2608.08353 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Rare-earth alloys skip the Sm-type phase under pressure
Raimundas Sereika +3 · “Pressure-Induced Stacking Disorder and Suppression of Long-Range Sm-type Order in Medium-Entropy Rare-Earth Alloys”
2608.08351 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Denoising cuts DMC density sampling by 10-100x
Kenneth O. Berard +2 · “Denoising Diffusion Monte Carlo Electron Densities with Physically Informed Variance Stabilization: From Fourier Filters to 3D UNETs”
2608.08152 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Pipeline flags CeGaO3 as a cerium Ising ferromagnet
Joshua A. Torres +3 · “Machine Learning Framework for Magnetic Candidate Discovery in Cerium-Based Compounds”
2608.08088 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-08One-hour high-pressure anneal lifts PrFeAsO1-xFx Tc by up to 6 K
Priya Singh +5 · “Effects of high-pressure synthesis on phase formation and superconducting properties of PrFeAsO1-xFx”
2608.08083 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Strain hotspots in Mg alloy map to 45-degree LPSO plates
Daiki Kuriki +3 · “Multimodal deep learning framework to predict strain localization of Mg/LPSO two-phase alloys”
2608.08071 -
physics.chem-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08ORR leftovers cling to Pt nanoparticles for over an hour
Jaehyeon Kim +3 · “Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Platinum Nanocatalysts Produces Long-Lived, Hysteretic Oxygenated Adsorbates”
2608.08050 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Tri-halide silicon ions etch faster than their halide atoms
Kazuhiro Karahashi +2 · “Beam experiments for reactive ion etching of silicon (Si)-based materials by silicon halide ions”
2608.08031 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08ε-LiMnO2 moves Li along 1D chains despite spinel-like local sites
Fukuan Wang +2 · “Local coordination and migration-network topology shape Li-ion transport and delithiation in the low-energy $\varepsilon$-LiMnO$_2$ polymorph”
2608.08000 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-0896 small-cell runs predict 360-atom defect energies to 0.05 eV
Junjie Zhou +2 · “Predicting large-supercell defect formation energies from machine-learning charge density models trained on small supercells”
2608.07997 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Polymerizing a fluid ferroelectric preserves its switchable order
Fan Ye +15 · “Reactive polar mesogenic self-assembly approach enables domain-programmable polymer ferroelectrics”
2608.07942 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08A 0.4 V gate switches bismuth films into hole-dominated transport
Jagannath Jena +11 · “Gate-tunable electronic properties of epitaxial Bi (111) films using a printable hexagonal boron nitride ionogel”
2608.07900 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Straight-line rule predicts collapse of 2D noble metals
Xiaoliang Zhong · “Metastability limit of pristine 2D noble metals with high-energy facet: dominance of the Bell-Evans-Polanyi principle”
2608.07884 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Manganese is an electride at ambient pressure
Shishir Timilsena +5 · “Spin selective non-van der Waal electride nature in manganese under ambient pressure”
2608.07856 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-07LPCVD tin-doped Ga2O3 hits its highest reported mobility
Saleh Ahmed Khan +3 · “Sn-Doping in LPCVD-Grown (010) $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ Films”
2608.07823 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Copper tucked in carbon bilayer rivals platinum for oxygen reduction
Henri G. Mendon\c{c}a +3 · “Understanding the Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Metal Intercalated Biphenylene Bilayers”
2608.07782 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Reversing a ferroelectric boosts 2D spin-orbit torque to 180 percent
Weiyi Pan +2 · “Ferroelectric-controllable spin-orbit torque in two-dimensional multiferroic heterostructure”
2608.07731 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Van Hove singularity shape decides a Hubbard model's ground state
Thomas P. Sheerin +3 · “Engineering correlated phases through manipulation of Van Hove singularities”
2608.07714 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Frequency sweep replaces pulsed T1 measurement
Vladimir Verkhovlyuk +4 · “Quantum Relaxometry Under Continuous Wave Excitation”
2608.07697 -
physics.app-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-07One heat-cool cycle extracts absolute acoustic nonlinearity
Hongbin Sun +1 · “Determination of acoustic nonlinearity parameters using thermal modulation of ultrasonic waves”
2608.07685 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Tuned orbital positions fix nonlinear optics in tight-binding models
Jonas J Telle +1 · “Optimally embedded tight binding for reproducing geometry dependent observables”
2608.07684 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Defects give nonmagnetic hBN bilayers electric control of magnetism
Bumseop Kim +2 · “Defect-Controlled Multiferroicity via Stacking Control in Nonmagnetic van der Waals Bilayers”
2608.07666 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Volumetric strain, not shear, sets vacancy formation cost
Tanvir Sohail +1 · “Permutation invariant neural network prediction of vacancy formation under deformation and varying chemical environment in FCC high entropy alloys”
2608.07445 -
physics.flu-dyn arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Implosion model predicts 70 MPa water-hammer peaks for titanium
Bolaji Oladipo +3 · “Fluid-Structure Interaction and Underwater Hydrostatic Implosion of Thin-Walled Metallic Cylinders in Semi-Confined Conditions”
2608.07647 -
cs.AI arXiv submitted 2026-08-07120 simulation cycles completed with zero live LLM calls
Yijie Wang +3 · “Agent-MD: Selective LLM Intervention with Event-Driven Escalation for Stateful GCMC--MD Campaigns”
2608.07637 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Segmental motion speeds up during strain-hardening of PMMA
Enran Xing +3 · “Segmental Dynamics in the Strain-hardening Regime for Poly(methyl methacrylate) Glasses with and without Melt-stretching”
2608.07330 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-07LaCl electride rewires its electron lattice
Songyuan Geng +16 · “Entwined lattice of atoms and anionic electrons in layered electride LaCl”
2608.07322 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-0750:50 vapor-deposited glass matches single-component stability
Shinian Cheng +4 · “Surface Equilibration Mechanism Controls the Stability of a Model Co-deposited Glass Mixture of Organic Semiconductors”
2608.07320 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Stress-aged polymer glass is stronger but moves faster
Masoud Razavi +2 · “Overaging with stress in polymer glasses? Faster segmental dynamics despite larger yield stress!”
2608.07310 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Sliding magnets generate pure spin current
Yilin Han +5 · “Fractional Spin Ferroelectric and Sliding Spin Current in Magnetic Sliding Ferroelectrics”
2608.07305 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Polymer homojunction lifts thermoelectric ZT to 1.36
Zhen Xu +9 · “Homojunction-induced thermopower enhancement in polymer films”
2608.07266 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Rydberg simulator finds slow-relaxation regime classical methods miss
Tiago Mendes-Santos +35 · “Exploring the Relaxation Landscape of a 2D Quantum Magnet on a 256-Qubit Processor”
2608.07178