INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
-
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-1346-nm crystal switches light's orbital angular momentum on demand
Paolo Valisa +11 · “All-optical switching of nonlinear structured light in crystal-engineered van der Waals materials”
2608.13548 -
cond-mat.supr-con arXiv submitted 2026-08-13Baking niobium shifts its screening current below the surface
Ryan M. L. McFadden +2 · “Insight into SRF cavity performance from simulations of Nb's surface oxide dissolution and diffusion”
2608.13540 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-13Mn5Si3's altermagnetic order is disfavored by first-principles theory
K. D. Belashchenko · “Landau theory and exchange instabilities in Mn$_5$Si$_3$: A case against altermagnetism”
2608.13483 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-13Silver and titanium boride coating is ten times harder than silver
Katarzyna Zieli\'nska +6 · “Comparison of mechanical properties of Ag/W1-xTixB2.5 and pure silver coatings deposited by PLD/HIPIMS method”
2608.13421 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-13A single theory predicts heat flowing backward in crystals
Enrico Di Lucente +2 · “Thermal transport in crystals: from the quantum Dyson equation to mesoscopic phonon hydrodynamics”
2608.13339 -
physics.app-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-13Heat spreads faster than Fourier predicts in any two-phase material
R\'obert Kov\'acs · “Origin of effective non-Fourier heat conduction phenomena in heterogeneous materials”
2608.13336 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Random strain and dark states reproduce SiV spectra
Tommy Chin +6 · “Impact of strain and dark states on spectroscopic measurements of silicon-vacancy centers in diamond”
2608.11168 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11A TiO2 shell can coat magnetic cores without killing either function
Wagner Henrique Gamas +4 · “Structural, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Superparamagnetic Fe3O4@TiO2 and Fe3O4@SiO2@TiO2 CoreShell Nanostructures”
2608.11165 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Alloy disorder turns one band crossing into a Weyl-semimetal window
A. Kr\'olicka +6 · “Tunable chiral anomaly in electron magnetotransport in the Weyl semimetallic Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te:Cr alloy”
2608.11148 -
physics.med-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-110.35, 1.5, 3 T: MRI phantom recipes measured and tabled
H Michael Gach +2 · “T1, T2, and complex permittivities of hydrogels, paramagnetic salt solutions, and oils at 0.35, 1.5, and 3 Tesla”
2608.11117 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Alq3 glass deposited at 340 K resists crystallization 10x longer
Kushal Bagchi +4 · “Stable Glasses of Organic Semiconductor Resist Crystallization”
2608.11102 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Co turns FeSb2 altermagnetic
Enrico Di Lucente +1 · “Competition between local magnetic disorder and altermagnetism in doped FeSb$_2$”
2608.11089 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-11A 17 K rise equals a tenfold slower deposition for glassy order
Camille Bishop +5 · “Using Deposition Rate and Substrate Temperature to Manipulate Liquid Crystal-like Order in a Vapor-deposited Hexagonal Columnar Glass”
2608.11081 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Mobility data can't explain polymer glasses' second overshoot
Grigori A Medvedev +3 · “Multi-step deformation experiment and development of a model for the mechanical behavior of polymeric glasses”
2608.11069 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Machine-learning screen finds 436 extreme work-function surfaces
Jun Meng +3 · “Accelerated Discovery of Materials with Extreme Work Functions through Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Fidelity Screening”
2608.11062 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-111,127 simulated spectra map NMC811's oxygen environments
Jian He +4 · “Oxygen K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Database for NMC811 Layered Cathode Materials”
2608.10910 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Flexural modes of skyrmion strings follow a sin-squared ladder
Eugene M. Chudnovsky +1 · “Oscillation modes of skyrmion strings in a ferromagnetic film”
2608.10902 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Magnons travel 2.7x farther along one axis of CrPS4
Krishnaraajan Sundararajan +4 · “Anisotropic magnon spin transport in CrPS$_4$”
2608.10802 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Li5N electride predicted stable and reflective up to 382 GPa
M. Abdul Hadi Shah +1 · “High-pressure electride superconductor Li5N for multifunctional applications: A theoretical insight into the physical properties”
2608.10768 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Strain magnetizes integer-spin altermagnets via quantum modes
Daisuke Yamamoto +1 · “Quantum Mechanism of Piezomagnetism in Higher-Spin Altermagnets”
2608.10735 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Atomistic model predicts aluminum spall strength within 6 percent
S Madhavan · “Multi-scale modeling of high strain rate deformation and spall fracture in poly-crystalline metals”
2608.10734 -
physics.chem-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Spin rotatory strength is the equilibrium CISS observable
Rub\'en Dar\io Guerrero · “Spin Rotatory Strength as the Equilibrium Observable for Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity”
2608.10697 -
quant-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Nanodiamonds survive 1800–2120 K before turning to graphite
M. De Feudis +8 · “Nanoscale graphitization and defect evolution in silicon-vacancy center-containing nanodiamonds under high-pressure high-temperature annealing”
2608.10632 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Carrier density, not structure, flips Cr-NbSe2 magnetism
Xiang S.W. Huang +12 · “Carrier-tunable RKKY magnetism in a crystalline magnet”
2608.10574 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10In CrBr2 and CrI2, a two-bond rivalry sets the magnetic helix
John A. Schneeloch +3 · “Helimagnetism from competing intra- and interchain interactions in CrBr$_2$ and CrI$_2$”
2608.10263 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Metal predicted to out-conduct aluminum
Sungyeb Jung +8 · “Balanced electron and phonon heat transport in metallic $\varepsilon$-TaN”
2608.10243 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Nearly atom-perfect NiO/Ga2O3 interface found on the (100) face
Michelle A. Smeaton +7 · “Revealing the Atomic Structure of NiO/Ga$_{2}$O$_{3}$ Interfaces”
2608.10226 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Layered 4H-SnS2 shows room-temperature ferroelectric switching
Abhishek Bajgain +4 · “Light Polarization Sensitive Transistor Action in the van der Waals ferroelectric 4H-SnS2”
2608.10174 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-08-10FFT thickness probe is repeatable but off by 0.62 μm
Zimu Zhou +3 · “Practical Evaluation of FFT-Based Thickness Extraction for Thick-Film Reflectometry”
2608.10146 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10TiWCO2 MXene predicted to show colossal nonlinear Hall effect
Rajdeep Biswas +1 · “MXene with Janus Structure at Transition metal site -A route to Emergent Properties”
2608.10122 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Atom-informed heat fields port into Abaqus and reveal hidden hot paths
W. Downs +3 · “Solver-Agnostic Implementation of Atom-Informed Thermal Conductivity Fields in Continuum Heat-Flow Simulations”
2608.10099 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Cell natural orbitals single out the orbitals that span twisted WSe2
Harshitra Mahalingam +3 · “Cell Natural Orbitals in Quantum Materials”
2608.10059 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-10One local orbital can never capture a Chern band
Nishchhal Verma +3 · “Cell Natural Orbitals in Interacting Topological Bands”
2608.09932 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-1090-million-atom powder pattern in 52 minutes
Navid Panchi +4 · “AES-Debye: an Accurate, Efficient, and Scalable Engine for Debye Scattering Calculations”
2608.09916 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Sapphire grows larger PtNi crystallites than langasite
M. Awais Fiaz +5 · “Substrate-dependent thermally driven morphological evolution of Pt$_{0.9}$Ni$_{0.1}$ thin films on sapphire and langasite”
2608.09909 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Aromatic nitriles shed their CN group before the ring breaks
Sam McGrath +8 · “Infrared Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Aromatic Nitriles in Para-Hydrogen Matrices”
2608.09889 -
cond-mat.str-el arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Double-well lattice coupling turns polaron mobility concave
Stefano Ragni +3 · “Anomalous temperature dependence of polaron mobility in a nonlinear double-well potential: unbiased X-propagator approach”
2608.09883 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10X-ray maps strain and rotation at single dislocations
C. Yildirim +7 · “Spatially resolved elastic strain and lattice rotation at threading dislocations in HgCdTe/CdZnTe epilayers by dark-field X-ray microscopy”
2608.09841 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Polar vortices push 10-nm strain into the magnetic SrRuO3 layer
S. A. Raza +9 · “Polar-vortex-driven interfacial strain coupling in PbTiO3/SrRuO3 Heterostructures”
2608.09815 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Simulation predicts battery interphase chemistry from electrolyte alone
Xinyu Li +5 · “Predictive Simulation of Interphases on Li Metal Surface”
2608.09791 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10One phase-field model couples segregation
Prakarsh Pandey +1 · “Numerical modeling of microstructure evolution in nanocrystalline alloys - grain boundary segregation, solute drag and mechanics”
2608.10048 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Metallicity survives asymmetric chemistry in 14 of 15 Janus MXenes
S. \"Ozcan +1 · “Preserved metallicity and tunable magnetism in Zr-based Janus MXenes”
2608.09645 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10One spin-bond algebra unifies all spin-split magnet classes
S. Allende +1 · “A spin-bond theory unifying non-relativistic spin splitting and emergent spin-orbit textures”
2608.09644 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Quantum dot shape sets excited trion fine structure
M.M. Glazov +1 · “Long-range exchange interaction controls the fine structure of excited trion states in semiconductor quantum dots”
2608.09554 -
physics.app-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Oxide transistors stack in three functional layers on 200 mm wafers
Chang Niu +11 · “200 mm Wafer-Scale Monolithic 3D Integration of Atomic Layer-Deposited Oxide Semiconductors”
2608.09508 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Ethylene at 800 °C turns Si(111) into a 9 nm 3C-SiC layer
Pranjali Jadhao +8 · “Time-resolved study of carbonization and growth of ultrathin 3C-SiC on Si(111) under ultra-high vacuum”
2608.09431 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Zero-field nonlinear Hall effect appears in altermagnet MnTe
Wei Zhou +8 · “Magnetotransport evolution and nonlinear Hall effect in altermagnetic MnTe”
2608.09371 -
physics.ins-det arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Cutting at 54.7° opens Halbach spheres with vanishing pull
Ingo Rehberg +2 · “Openable Force-Balanced Halbach Magnets: From Fibonacci Sphere Simulations to Icosahedral Realizations”
2608.09323 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Oxide TFT band-tail states shrink exponentially as channels lengthen
Chang Niu +7 · “Size-Dependent Band-Tail Localization in Oxide Semiconductors Revealed by Direct Density-of-States Mapping”
2608.09283 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Bond-aware features cut octet-binary stability error to 0.029 eV
Rohan Kumar (1) +9 · “Machine-learning octet $AB$-type binary compounds across chemical space with domain knowledge of the interatomic bond”
2608.09257