INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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cs.LG arXiv submitted 2026-08-05CheMLFlow matches published chemistry-ML results on six benchmarks
Brendan Smith +5 · “CheMLFlow: An Open-Source Platform for Cheminformatics and Materials Informatics Applications”
2608.04942 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Strain lifts TMR from 176% to 540% in all-2D tunnel junctions
Sakshi Goel +3 · “Effects of Interfacial States and Strain on Tunnel Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Magnetic Tunnel Junctions”
2608.04888 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Anion ordering alone can force a crystal to be chiral
Benjamin J. Morgan · “Structural Chirality from Short-Range Order in Heteroanionic Materials”
2608.04841 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Ghost orbitals make slave-boson method match DMFT for phonons
Samuele Giuli +3 · “Ghost-RISB for Correlated Electron-Phonon Systems: Application to the Hubbard-Holstein Model”
2608.04816 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Zero-bias GaN/Ga2O3 diode detects UV without a battery
Edgars Butanovs +12 · “Growth and characterization of GaN/Ga2O3 Nanowire Heterostructures for Ultraviolet Optoelectronics”
2608.04813 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05C09x-PBEc functional nails ferroelectric properties at GGA cost
Owain T. Beynon +1 · “An Exchange-Correlation Functional for Fast and Accurate Modeling of Ferroelectric Perovskites”
2608.04806 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Dislocation emission shields cracks but does not toughen them
Khanh Chau Le +1 · “A phase field model of coupled crack and dislocations: emission, blunting, and the necessity of dissipative toughening”
2608.04781 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Three phonon theories reveal one effective magnetic field
Natalia Shabala +3 · “Unifying microscopic theories for the phono-magnetic effect”
2608.04754 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Ordered sulfur vacancies carry 100,000 times more current in MoS2
Alessandro Pecchia +4 · “Atomic Scale Ordering of Sulfur Vacancies Enhances Charge Transport in Monolayer MoS$_2$”
2608.04742 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Design rules for >32% lead-free double-perovskite solar cells
H. Laltlanmawii +9 · “Performance Analysis of Double Perovskite-Based Solar Cells Using SCAPS-1D Simulation: A brief review”
2608.04736 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05First measurement: MXene–gold shear stress is 399 MPa
Pierluigi Bilotto +5 · “Nanomechanics of MXene flakes at gold interfaces”
2608.04725 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Raman peaks betray how fast lithium moves in LLZO
Takeru Miyagawa +6 · “Raman Signatures of Lithium Ion Dynamics in LLZO Garnet Electrolytes: Atomistic Insights from MD-Raman Calculations”
2608.04690 -
cs.LG arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Active learning halves the search space
Alexandros Ntagiantas +4 · “Active Learning Guided Design Space Refinement for Scalable Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization in Materials Discovery”
2608.04651 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05MgO turns plastic in nanoseconds under shock
A. Chakraborti +82 · “Nanosecond timescale plasticity in shock-compressed polycrystalline MgO: evidence for transition in mechanism above 100 GPa”
2608.04649 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Magnons set the static magnetoelectric response
Torsten Geirsson +3 · “The Frequency-Dependent Spin Contribution to the Magnetoelectric Tensor of Cr$_2$O$_3$: A First-Principles Study”
2608.04638 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Magnetic vortices in single nanoparticles imaged in full detail
Satoko Toyama +6 · “Nano-scale visualization of magnetic vortices in metal nanoparticles”
2608.04490 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Offcut GaAs doubles optical anisotropy in epitaxial GeSe
Kira J. Martin +8 · “Monolithic integration of optically anisotropic GeSe-based films on GaAs by templated solid-phase epitaxy”
2608.04418 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Simulated clay without friction flows like a liquid
Wang-Qi Xu +2 · “Unveiling the Role of Friction in Coarse-Grained Clay: A Hybrid Framework Integrating Long-Range Interactions and Granular Contact Mechanics”
2608.04359 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04GW fixes electron-phonon coupling
Nick Pant +4 · “First-principles predictions of carrier mobility with record accuracy using GW perturbation theory”
2608.04219 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Automated pipeline matches manual ceramic microstructure analysis
Nikhil Dhanankam +3 · “Computational Microstructure Analysis of Sintered Ceramics”
2608.04216 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Pressure quadruples the spin Seebeck response in an altermagnet
Nafise Rezaei +3 · “Pressure-Tunable Electronic and Magnonic Transport in Altermagnet La$_2$O$_3$Mn$_2$Se$_2$”
2608.04184 -
physics.ins-det arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Sub-10-fs dynamics at 20 K from a tabletop XUV beamline
Sheng-Chih Lin +7 · “A table-top few-femtosecond broadband extreme-ultraviolet absorption spectrometer with cryogenic cooling”
2608.03955 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04A 1% chromium shift flips CrTa3S6 from helix to ferromagnet
Ayaka Toshima +5 · “Emergence of Chiral Helimagnetic Order in Chromium-intercalated Tantalum Disulfide CrTa$_3$S$_6$ Powders with Controlled Intercalation”
2608.03953 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Sound speeds yield all six elastic constants of TaAs
Fabi\'an Jofr\'e-Parra +2 · “Phonon-based determination of elastic coefficients in the Weyl semimetal TaAs”
2608.03903 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Diamond's known defects explain cBN's optical centers
Konstantin Iakoubovskii +3 · “Optical centers in cubic boron nitride and diamond: remarkable similarities”
2608.03901 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Ice-rule tendency survives when most tetrahedra lack a spin
Raju Baral +4 · “Local magnetic order in vacancy-disrupted spin ice Ho2TiO5”
2608.03850 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-04One irradiance map predicts femtosecond SiC wafer slicing quality
Dong Hee Kang +6 · “Self-Focusing Control for Depth-Precise Wafer Slicing of 4H-SiC in Femtosecond Laser Processing”
2608.03814 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Dodecahedral order produces a topological charge of 12
Zeying Zhang +4 · “Generalized Space Groups from Internal Configuration Spaces”
2608.03808 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04ML model predicts eight alloy properties with zero Born violations
Blaise Awola Ayirizia +2 · “Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Refractory Alloy Design”
2608.03805 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Gallium oxide amorphizes at 7 dpa
Joanna Matulewicz +13 · “From phase transformation to amorphization: damage accumulation in Yb-implanted $\beta-Ga_2O_3$”
2608.03798 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Five of six machine-learning recipes yield pure EMT zeolite
Emmanuel A. Olanrewaju +6 · “Guided Synthesis of EMT Zeolites by Machine Learning”
2608.03760 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Trace solvent gives solid lithium battery a 4.5 V window
Jiadong Shen +10 · “Machine Learning-Guided Screening of Advantageous Solvents for Solid Polymer Electrolytes in Lithium Metal Batteries”
2608.03688 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Silicon alloy predicted to hit ZT 1.2 at 300 K
Patrizio Graziosi +9 · “Epitaxial SiGeSn alloys for CMOS-compatible thermoelectric devices”
2608.03638 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Sulfur vacancies turn monolayer MoS2 into an electret
Eugenio Lunedei +10 · “Toward two dimensional MoS2 electrets”
2608.03602 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Four metals make a B20 magnet that orders at 146 K
V. A. Sidorov +10 · “The New High-entropy Compound RhMnFeCoGe4 with Cubic Non-centrosymmetric B20 Structure”
2608.03523 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-0410-mT in-plane fields rotate magnetic stripes
Victor Ukleev +19 · “Vector-field control and emergent basal-plane anisotropy of magnetic textures in noncentrosymmetric (Fe$_{0.63}$Ni$_{0.3}$Pd$_{0.07}$)$_3$P”
2608.03513 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Chirality axis of a magnetic crystal rotates 30° on cooling
Victor Ukleev +19 · “Vector-field control and emergent basal-plane anisotropy of magnetic textures in noncentrosymmetric (Fe$_{0.63}$Ni$_{0.3}$Pd$_{0.07}$)$_3$P”
2608.03513 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Canted spins switch photocurrents on and off in CrSBr
Dezhao Wu +3 · “Spin-Chirality-Driven Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in van der Waals Magnet CrSBr”
2608.03492 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Heat flows 22x faster within GeS2 layers than across them
Neeraj Kulhari +2 · “Anisotropic Phonon Heat Flow and Thermoelectric Response in Tetragonal GeS$_2$ and GeSe$_2$”
2608.03478 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Nd hyperkagome magnet's ground state is effective spin 1/2
R. Kolay +6 · “Magnetic and crystal electric field excitations in a spin-orbit coupled frustrated hyperkagome magnet Nd$_3$Li$_3$W$_2$O$_{12}$”
2608.03365 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Alloying tunes monolayer gap by 0.35 eV
Eirini Katsipoulaki +14 · “Alloy engineering of excitonic properties in TMD monolayers”
2608.03347 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Live stage feedback steadies electron microscopes to picometre scale
Christophe Gatel +3 · “Picometre-scale real-time drift correction in TEM and STEM by dynamic control of the specimen stage for atomic-resolution imaging”
2608.03344 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Moment identity makes trained neural-network potentials 3.6x faster
Yuki Nagai · “AccelNet: Exact backward-compatible acceleration of polynomial angular descriptors through Cartesian moment factorization”
2608.03280 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Charge fluctuations follow area at high T
Shan-Chang Tang · “Fluctuations of topological charges in two-dimensional classical Heisenberg model through high-temperature and low-temperature expansions”
2608.03195 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-042D spin relaxation in GaAs implies a 9.2 eV ų Dresselhaus coefficient
Yuzo Ohno +2 · “Apparent Dresselhaus coefficient in (001) GaAs quantum wells: Correlation-time renormalization in D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation”
2608.03128 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Pressure alone gives NbSe2 a zero-field superconducting diode
Shihao Zhu +19 · “Pressure induced magnetic-field-free superconducting diode effect in NbSe2 flake”
2608.03072 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Mg3Sb2 superconducts at 3.3 K under 12.6 GPa
Cuiying Pei +16 · “Pressure-induced Superconductivity in Thermoelectric Semiconductor Mg3Sb2”
2608.03058 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Charge mismatch grows two exotic nanocrystal lattices
Binay P. Nayak +7 · “Electrostatic Superlattices beyond 1:1 Stoichiometry”
2608.02981 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Noble-metal light absorption reproduced from first principles
Xiao Zhang +1 · “Optical properties of Ag, Au, and Cu from first principles”
2608.02968 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Aspect-ratio trapping grows GeSn on silicon with 8% tin
Hryhorii Stanchu +12 · “Investigation of GeSn aspect ratio trapping growth up to 8% Sn”
2608.02710