INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Symmetry break yields tenfold better out-of-plane varactors at 10 GHz
Florian Bergmann +26 · “Breaking symmetry to create a parallel-plate varactor dielectric with unparalleled microwave performance”
2606.20371 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Nilsson model separates Burstein-Moss shift from renormalization in ZnO
S. Mishra +9 · “Effective masses, Burstein-Moss shift, and bandgap renormalization in degenerate Al-doped ZnO from broadband ellipsometry and Hall measurements”
2606.20349 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Phosphorus-doped triangulene yields tunable flat bands
Wenya Zhai +10 · “Tunable Flat Bands and magnetism in Triangulene-based Superatomic Graphene”
2606.20321 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Longer ligands cut exciton transport in perovskite NC films
Simon Solari +8 · “Exciton Transport in Disordered Perovskite Nanocrystal Solids”
2606.20275 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18RuO2 weak surface magnetism read out by WSe2 valley states
Muhammad Hassan Shaikh +11 · “Anomalous magneto-optical response at $\mathrm{RuO_2 / WSe_2}$ van der Waals interface”
2606.20262 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Tessellation BCs create single clear localization bands in concrete models
Jan Raisinger +1 · “On representation of macroscopic crack in periodic fine-scale discrete mechanical models”
2606.20253 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Antiferromagnet surfaces host large spin splitting
William A. Schaarman +1 · “Large spin splitting at ferromagnetic surfaces of bulk antiferromagnets”
2606.20178 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Antiferromagnet surfaces split electron bands by up to 1 eV
William A. Schaarman +1 · “Large spin splitting at ferromagnetic surfaces of bulk antiferromagnets”
2606.20178 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Electric fields toggle CrSBr bilayer between AFM and FM states
Xiubin Li +10 · “Electric-field-driven magnetic switching and tightly bound interlayer excitons in bilayer CrSBr”
2606.20159 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18LAPW reaches Hartree-Fock limit to few μHa for solids
J\=anis U\v{z}ulis +1 · “Hartree-Fock Limit for Energies in Solids”
2606.20116 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18InSb/CdTe produces THz second harmonics under in-plane magnetic field
Pai Peng +12 · “Terahertz frequency upconversion by coherently driving charge dynamics in the InSb/CdTe heterostructure”
2606.20080 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Tube shear bound caps polymer nonlinear index at 3
Dario Nichetti +1 · “Constraint-Limited Tube Orientation of Entangled Polymers in Oscillatory Shear Deformation”
2606.20049 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Method predicts excitons accurately in mismatched 2D stacks
Jakob Kj{\ae}rulff Svaneborg +3 · “Quantitative prediction of excitons in lattice-mismatched van der Waals heterostructures”
2606.20039 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Sliding controls reversible spin splitting in 2D altermagnets
Bhautik R Dhori +2 · “Interplay of Altermagnetism and Coupled Quasi-Altermagnetic states in Sliding Two-dimensional Square Lattice”
2606.19977 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Vanadium alloying creates tunable valley polarization in MoTe2
Md. Mostaqul Islam +3 · “Strain- and Electric-Field-Tunable Valley Polarization in Mo0.75V0.25Te2(Mo3VTe8) for Valleytronic Application”
2606.19954 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Neural potential predicts mineral surface energies to 0.01 eV accuracy
Fengzijun Pan +6 · “MinSurf: resolving the atomic-scale stability landscape of mineral surfaces”
2606.19798 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Arsenene multilayers switch stacking with thickness and close the gap
Jeonghwan Ahn +2 · “Thickness-Dependent Interlayer Coupling and Semiconductor-to-Semimetal Crossover in Arsenene Multilayers”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Monolayers of CsCr3Sb5 bring flat bands and vHSs near Fermi level
Z. H. Guan +10 · “Enhanced electronic correlations and altermagnetic ground state of two-dimensional CsCr3Sb5 monolayers”
2606.19740 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-18Open-source tool runs sixteen HEA descriptors and eight rules together
Do\u{g}uhan Sar{\i}t\"urk +2 · “HEACalculator: An Open-Source Python Tool for Thermodynamic Property Calculation and Solid Solution Prediction in High-Entropy Alloys”
2606.19661 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Neutral carbon defects explain AlN absorption between 2-4 eV
Helen C. Robinson +7 · “Charge-state control of carbon-related optical absorption in AlN”
2606.19615 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Simulation shows four phases in AlCoCuFeNi film on silicon
Oleksandr I. Kushnerov +2 · “Deposition and Growth of the AlCoCuFeNi High-Entropy Alloy Thin Film: Molecular Dynamics Simulation”
2606.19582 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Zigzag fluorographene gives 98% optical spin polarization
Ang\'elica Marina L\'opez-Mart\'inez +4 · “Optical spin injection in graphane and fluorographene”
2606.19571 -
math.NA arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Moreau-Yosida method inverts periodic Kohn-Sham potentials
Vebj{\o}rn H. Bakkestuen +4 · “Moreau-Yosida-based Kohn-Sham Inversion for Periodic Systems”
2606.19471 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Spin groups allow spin splitting up to order 9 in non-collinear magnets
Luis Elcoro +3 · “Spin point group symmetry and classification of non-relativistic spin splitting in non-collinear magnetic structures: Identification of high-order spin splitting types (l=5,7, and 9)”
2606.19254 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Misorientation rises 75% in conditioned copper electrodes
Yinon Ashkenazy +4 · “Direct large-area observation of subsurface plastic activity in conditioned copper electrodes”
2606.19192 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Closed-loop agents cut adsorption searches to 4-5 MLFF steps
Zongmin Zhang +8 · “AdsMind: A Physics-Grounded Multi-Agent System for Self-Correcting Discovery of Adsorption Configurations on Heterogeneous Catalyst Surfaces”
2606.19152 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17CVD produces MnSe flakes showing antiferromagnetism at 53 K
Jennifer E. DeMell +5 · “Controllable Growth and Characterization of {\alpha}- and {\beta}-phase MnSe by Chemical Vapor Deposition”
2606.19142 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Equivariant GNNs lift optical spectra prediction accuracy
Kasper Helverskov Petersen +5 · “Equivariant Graph Neural Networks Improve Optical Spectra Prediction for Materials Screening”
2606.19133 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Two cheap methods match full calculations for MoS2 thermoelectrics
Ransell D'Souza +1 · “Generalized deformation potential and machine-learning approaches for electron-phonon coupling and thermoelectric transport in semiconductors”
2606.19130 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Two-band model captures upper critical field in NbSeS
K. Yadav +3 · “Evidence for Multiband Superconductivity in 2H-NbSeS”
2606.19107 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Sodium catalyst forms superconducting CaC6 in graphite at room temperature
Akira Iyo +4 · “Room-Temperature Calcium Intercalation into Graphite Catalyzed by Sodium”
2606.19024 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Thin films turn g-wave altermagnets into d-wave spin splitters
Sopheak Sorn +5 · “Projected altermagnetism by symmetry reduction at surfaces and in thin films”
2606.18964 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17SOC renormalizes optical activity in Pb5Ge3O11 via electronic terms
Asier Zabalo +2 · “Spin-orbit coupling renormalization of the natural optical activity of Pb5Ge3O11 from first-principles”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Curved copper grows metallic and semiconducting phosphorus nanoarrays side by side
M. Bassotti +12 · “Self-Aligned Metallic-Semiconducting Phosphorus Nanoarrays Driven by Facet Engineering”
2606.18907 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Lead-free double perovskites reach ZT of 2.4
Jubair Hossan Abir +5 · “First-Principles Study of Novel Lead-Free Double Perovskite \b{eta}2SnGeX6 (\b{eta} = K, Rb; X = Cl, Br, I) for thermomechanical, optoelectronic and outstanding thermoelectric applications”
2606.18903 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Electrolytic gate switches diamond SiV centers below 200 mV
Charlie Pattinson +5 · “Solution gate control of shallow silicon vacancy charge states in diamond”
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cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Neutron scattering detects vortex spin states in iron oxide clusters
Venus Rai +13 · “Polarized neutron scattering as a probe for vortex-type spin correlations in iron oxide multicore assemblies”
2606.18791 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17XPS lines in silicon oxide from continuous binding energy spread
Mikael Santonen +4 · “Role of Local Structural Variation in X-ray Photoelectron Spectrum of Silicon Oxide Interfaces”
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cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-06-17RIXS dichroism confirms d-wave altermagnetism in La2O3Mn2Se2
Guangkai Zhang +18 · “$d$-wave altermagnetism revealed by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering”
2606.18731 -
physics.chem-ph arXiv submitted 2026-06-17LLM invents approximations that accelerate CCSD calculations
Masaya Hagai +4 · “LLM-Guided Test-Time Discovery of Quantum-Chemical Approximation Algorithms”
2606.20729 -
cs.LG arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Sparsity fine-tuning matches full updates with 3% parameters
Youngwoo Cho +8 · “Robust and Interpretable Adaptation of Equivariant Materials Foundation Models via Sparsity-promoting Fine-tuning”
2606.18691 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-17Shear strain converts altermagnets into ferrimagnets with Hall conductivity
Xiuxian Yang +8 · “Strain induced magnetic phase transition and anomalous transport phenomena in RuO$_2$ and MnF$_2$”
2606.18603 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-16CVD grows Ni-doped FGT nanosheets with bulk nickel
Matthew Metcalf +6 · “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Ni-doped Iron Germanium Telluride Nanosheets”
2606.18546 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-06-16Dislocation topology sets magnon hybridization rules
Carlos Saji +2 · “Magnon-dislon hybridization in magnetic insulators”
2606.18513 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-16Clay forms moiré glass with twists at 1-2
Juhyeok Lee +7 · “Hydration-controlled twist forms a moir\'e glass in charge-frustrated layered silicates”
2606.18477 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-16Isolated clathrate grains reveal hopping conduction at low T
Sam Saiter +7 · “Magnetotransport Measurements on Isolated Polycrystalline Grains of Type-II Silicon Clathrate”
2606.18449 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-16akaitools turns AkaiKKR text into Python dataclasses
Do\u{g}uhan Sar{\i}t\"urk +1 · “akaitools: A Python package for parsing and analyzing AkaiKKR electronic structure calculations”
2606.18399 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-16Short-range order raises ScAlN switching barrier
Shunda Chen +3 · “Anisotropic Short-Range Order Modulates Ferroelectric Switching in Wurtzite ScAlN Alloys”
2606.18213 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-06-16Strain and doping enable room-temperature magnetism in CrTe2
Anupama S +1 · “High-temperature ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism in monolayer \ce{CrTe2}: Roles of strong spin-lattice coupling and charge doping”
2606.18148 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-06-16Bilayer ZrTe5 hosts double quantum spin Hall phase
Chao Chen Ye +3 · “Double quantum spin Hall phase in bilayer ZrTe$_5$”
2606.18130