INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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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 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Magnon energy swings 24% between crystal axes in a Kitaev magnet
Naipeng Zhang +13 · “Revealing Intrinsic Anisotropy of Collective Magnetic Excitations in Twinned Crystals of a Kitaev-Heisenberg Quantum Magnet”
2608.02531 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Gradient coefficient gains an exact r_s ln r_s term
Mario Benites +2 · “Gradient expansion approximation of the inhomogeneous electron-gas revisited: Higher-order corrections”
2608.02524 -
physics.app-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Al2O3 passivation cuts CZT dark current fivefold
Sudarshan Singh +5 · “Reduced Dark Current in Cd0.9Zn0.1Te Detector Arrays by Aluminium Oxide Passivation”
2608.02516 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Star-of-David clusters shift first
Daeheon Kim +6 · “Real-time dynamics of the two-step charge-density-wave transition in bulk 1T-TaS$_2$”
2608.02456 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Nodal lines drive MnTe's large anomalous Hall effect
Mathews Benny +19 · “Magnetically tunable symmetry-enforced nodal lines producing huge anomalous Hall conductivity in altermagnetic $\alpha$-MnTe”
2608.02416 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Predict which grains can hit a chosen two-beam condition
Johan Ewald Westraadt · “GRADAR: orientation-map-driven detection and ranking of grains for targeted two-beam electron channeling contrast imaging”
2608.02400 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Two pressure-driven domes make BaMg2Bi2 superconducting to 7.22 K
Qi Wang +5 · “Emergence of Double-Dome Superconductivity in the Pressurized Dirac Semimetal BaMg2Bi2”
2608.02394 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Lithium doping keeps W-B superconductivity near ambient pressure
Bangshuai Zhu +8 · “Superconducting ternary compounds Li-X-B (X=Mo, W) within the mild pressure range: First-principles predictions”
2608.02362 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Cryo-FIB reveals c-axis resistivity of Tl2201 is up to 3x higher
Ayanesh Maiti +12 · “Cryogenic focused-ion-beam microstructuring enabling quantitative $c$-axis transport measurements in Tl$_2$Ba$_2$CuO$_{6+\delta}$”
2608.02344 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Amorphization and superconductivity arrive together at 10 GPa
Lingxiao Zhao +8 · “Pressure-induced concurrent amorphization and superconductivity in topological material NbNiTe5”
2608.02342 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Microwatt laser switches magnetic order in 2D CrSBr
Lukas Husel +9 · “Optical switching of magnetic order in few-layer CrSBr”
2608.02337 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03NiTe2 crystals show zero interstitial nickel
T. Tirasutt +2 · “Synthesis and structural validation of close-to-stoichiometric NiTe$_2$ single crystals”
2608.02334 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Ion-sliced GaP films land on glass
Tobias Bucher +9 · “Gallium phosphide on insulator for nanophotonics and quantum technologies”
2608.02328 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Liquids stiffen under nanoconfinement at gigahertz frequencies
Ievgeniia Chaban +1 · “Equilibrium gigahertz acoustics reveals long-range confinement in liquids”
2608.02301 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Metals get a geometric Drude weight—and a divergence that cancels
Nishchhal Verma +1 · “Long and short time linear response of metals: a geometric approach”
2608.02298 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Ion-sliced GaP films hit 0.9 dB/cm loss at telecom wavelengths
Hossein Esfandiar +13 · “Direct Wafer Bonding of Crystal-Ion-Sliced GaP Thin Films for Photonic Applications”
2608.02251 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Hydrogen turns nickelates insulating by polarons
Hang Ma +2 · “Polaron-mediated metal-insulator transition and proton conduction in hydrogenated nickelate perovskites”
2608.02243 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Above 60 GPa, aluminum prefers solid Mg over the melt
Shambhu Bhandari Sharma +2 · “Ab initio High-Pressure Phase Diagrams of Al-Mg Alloys in the Low Solute Concentration Limit”
2608.02225 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Correct faulty plastic laws on the fly to obey the Second Law
Maximiliano Larrain Silva +1 · “Solving the Dissipation Inequality not as a constitutive restriction”
2608.02215 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Minimal correction makes faulty plasticity laws obey the Second Law
Maximiliano Larrain Silva +1 · “Solving the Dissipation Inequality not as a constitutive restriction”
2608.02215 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Gate voltage makes moiré polaritons saturate ten times faster
Zhijie Li +18 · “Charge Tunable Optical Nonlinearity of Moir\'e Exciton-Polaritons”
2608.02165 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Staggered SOC turns d-wave altermagnets into C=-2 Chern metals
Meysam Bagheri Tagani Carmine Autieri +1 · “Band topology and symmetry-driven magneto-optical response in two-dimensional d-wave altermagnets with staggered spin-orbit coupling”
2608.02155 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-03PLE resolves Rydberg ladder of interlayer excitons
Chirag Chandrakant Palekar +10 · “Resolving High-Energy States of Interlayer Excitons in MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ Heterostructures”
2608.02040 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Magnons in CrI3 cancel spin with orbital motion
Martin Pavelka +17 · “Exciton-induced magnons carrying orbital angular momentum in CrI3”
2608.02010 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Raman peak at 122 cm−1 fingerprints bismuthene under graphene
Lukas Gehrig +17 · “Resonantly-enhanced Raman response in graphene-capped bismuthene on SiC”
2608.01961 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03AI predicts sputter power for target alloy coatings
Paul Foulquier +6 · “Machine Learning Assisted Design of Complex and High Entropy Alloys by Hybrid HiPIMS/Pulsed-DC PVD Process for Low Carbon Energy Applications in Extreme Environments”
2608.01903 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Sandwich trick stabilizes 1208 of 1620 two-dimensional metals
Mohammad Bagheri +1 · “Machine-Learning-Accelerated Metallene Stabilization from High-Throughput Sandwich Modeling”
2608.01779 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Physics-aware network rebuilds strain maps from a tenth of the probes
Roberto dos Reis +4 · “Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Sparse Strain-Field Reconstruction in 4D-STEM”
2608.01601 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Updated vdW radii cut alkali crystal errors from ~20% to ~3%
Aaron M. Schankler +7 · “Performance of Tkatchenko-Scheffler Dispersion Method with Updated van der Waals Radii: Importance for Alkali-Containing Systems”
2608.01501 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Stripping away surface adsorbates slashes NV spin coherence 3-5x
Zhiyang Yuan +7 · “Surface adsorbates suppress low-frequency noise for shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers”
2608.01478 -
cs.AI arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Polymers hit five target properties in one generation pass
Charlie Pyle +5 · “PolymerGPT: Multi-property Optimization with a Decoder-Based GPT Model for Generative Polymer Design”
2608.01431 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Pressure shuffles uranium electrons to tune UAs2 superconductivity
Zhenchao Wu +2 · “Pressure-induced self-doping and Fermi surface reconstruction in UAs2”
2608.01244 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Two Dirac cones squeeze plasmons in Kek-α material
Jean Marseille +5 · “Suppressed plasmon excitations, enhanced damping and static screening in Kek-Y strained $\alpha-\mathcal{T}_3$ model”
2608.01213 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-02EBSD reads atomic-layer spacings in mu-phase alloys
Lukas Berners +11 · “EBSD and Subtle Crystallographic Differences - A Study of Resolving Interlayer Spacings in Nb-Ni and Nb-Co mu-phases”
2608.01210 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-02THz band turns circularly dichroic in magnetic order of Mn2Mo3O8
F. Schilberth +16 · “Magnetic circular dichroism of THz modes and selection rules of Raman-active optical phonons in the polar altermagnet candidate \ce{Mn2Mo3O8}”
2608.01062 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Fully relativistic DFT reaches 3,383 atoms per unit cell
Wentao Zhang +2 · “A Large-scale Parallel Implementation of Quasi-Four-Component Relativistic Density Functional Theory with Numeric Atom-centered Orbitals”
2608.00773 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Non-collinear spins make Rashba wires spin filters
Luciano Jacopo D'Onofrio +3 · “Spin selectivity induced by non-collinear spins in Rashba wires”
2608.00599 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-0192 simulations replace 696 for stream-finishing wear maps
Anand Kumar +3 · “Uncertainty-guided active learning for surrogate prediction of stream-finishing wear fields”
2608.00593 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Bismuthene's electron spins are locked to momentum
Niclas Tilgner +8 · “Spin- and Angle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study of the Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Bismuthene and its Precursor Phase”
2608.00526 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-01One differentiable loss fits thermodynamic models to phase data
Wenhao Zhang +4 · “Machine Learning Compatible CALPHAD-type Optimization from Phase Equilibria by Auto-differentiation”
2608.00516 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Spin fluctuations drive d-wave pairing in nickelates
Guang-Yu Guo +3 · “{\it Ab initio} prediction of $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates”
2608.00512 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Weak THz light melts a moiré insulator into a metal
L. Elesin +16 · “Correlated Insulator Moir\'e Bolometer”
2608.00488 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Cooling makes TbFeO3 expand
Shubham Farswan +6 · “Negative thermal expansion, lattice dynamics, and complex magnetism in TbFeO$_3$”
2608.00469 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Transient-liquid joining keeps NiTi superelastic at 94% efficiency
Zhaoxi Cao +5 · “Transient Liquid Phase Bonding of NiTi Using Cu- and Nb-base Interlayers”
2608.00319 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-07-31BTO metasurface hits 0.8 GHz free-space modulation
Zhongpeng Sun +15 · “Hybrid BaTiO3/TiO2 Metasurface for Efficient Gigahertz-Speed Free-Space Electro-Optic Modulation”
2608.00286 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Hybrid functionals win resonant Raman benchmark
Aleksandr Poliukhin +3 · “Resonant Raman spectroscopies beyond density-functional theory”
2608.00269 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Averaging disordered XAS spectra collapses to one matrix inversion
Maurizio Benfatto · “Configuration averaging of X-ray absorption spectra of disordered systems within the augmented-space full multiple-scattering formalism”
2608.00179 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Further-neighbor bonds rule this triangular spin magnet
J. Khatua +9 · “Magnetic properties of a quasi-two-dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnet Y2CuGe4O12”
2607.29676