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August 2026 Publications

September 1, 2026

Generative AI in games? Cleaning TESS images? Prediction of relative kinetic solvent effects? A selection of recent publications featuring research using computers at the MGHPCC.

Abdallah, Mohamed S. et al (2026), Machine-learned exchange-correlation functionals for molecules, solids, and reactive surfaces, arXiv: 2608.21525 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] 

Abouelkomsan, Ahmed et al (2026), Rhombohedral Graphene: A Tale of Many Crystals, arXiv: 2608.00167  [cond-mat.str-el] 

Ade, P. A. R. et al. (2026), Engineering of titanium transition edge sensor wafers for the BA4-90/150 receiver of BICEP Array, Proc. SPIE 14156, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XIII, 141561Y , doi: 10.1117/12.3104107

Alexandersen, Mike et al (2026), Cleaning TESS Images to Reveal Solar System Objects, The Planetary Science Journal, doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ae8a4d 

Arif, Arooj et al (2026), TestifAI: Tomography-Based Testing for Deep Learning Systems
IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ’26), doi: 10.1145/3744916.3787842 

Arulandu, Alvan et al (2026), Trading Imaginary Time for Randomness in Ground State Preparation, arXiv: 2608.00443  [quant-ph] 

Athanitis, Constantine et al (2026), Nitrogen 2p – metal d band hybridization governs nitrogen reduction reaction on transition metal nitrides, EES Catal., doi: 10.1039/d6ey00138f

Bazzaz, Mahsa and Seth Cooper (2026), Player Perceptions of Generative AI in Games: A Steam Review Analysis, arXiv: 2608.11539 [cs.HC]

Bouabid, Shahine et al (2026), Evidence that end-of-century emulation errors under overshoot remain largely within internal variability in an Earth system model, Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ae9c58 

Campbell, Robert A. et al (2026), Bimodal colloids highlight the structural mirror of rigidity percolation and yielding, arXiv: 2607.22901  [cond-mat.soft] 

Campbell, Robert A. et al II (2026), Size matters more than packing in bimodal colloidal gel compositions, arXiv:
2608.16874 [cond-mat.soft] 

Chan, Suet Ying et al (2026), Point Spread Function Engineering Using Implicit Neural Representationst, arXiv: 2608.20277 [physics. optics] 

Cheng, Yu and Tianle Liu (2026), Generative AI for subgrid turbulence in large-eddy simulations: A priori analysis, Physical Review Fluids, doi: 10.1103/vb6j-f876

de la Fuente, Gregorio and Jesse Thaler (2026), Simplex Demixing: Disentangling Multiple Light-Flavor Jets at Colliders, arXiv: 2607.24921 [hep-ph]  

Fell, Shaun David Brocus, and Abraham Loeb (2026), Radiative Signatures from Warp Drives Traveling Through the Earth’s Atmosphere, arXiv: 2608.10800 [gr-qc] 

Feng, S. et al (2026), Ru-enabled dehydration-reductive amination of α-, β-hydroxy acids into amino acids, Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-77053-7

Fichtlscherer, C. (2026), High-Precision Higher-Order Coefficients for the Chebyshev Rational Approximation Method (CRAM), Nuclear Science and Engineering, doi: 10.1080/00295639.2026.2688038 

Fotopoulos, V. et al (2026), Hydrogen transfer at MoS2/SiO2 heterostructures and across their interfaces, MRS Advances, doi: 10.1557/s43580-026-01720-6 

Hayes, Liam (2026),  Vision-Based Control for Target Following With Stability Guarantees, Boston University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  32672300

Iacus, S.M., Jain, D., Nasuto, A. et al (2026), The Human Flourishing Geographic Index: A County-Level Dataset for the United States, 2013–2023, Sci Data, doi: 10.1038/s41597-026-07803-1

Jain, Rahul et al (2026), Clearing the Underbrush: AI-Enhanced RF Interference Suppression, arXiv: 2608.24974 [cs.LG] 

Kavanagh, Sean R. et al (2026), Fast and Accurate Foundation Models for Equivariant Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials, arXiv: 2607.28461 [physics.comp-ph]

Kocjan, Zuzanna and Vadim A. Semenov (2026), The Rhythm of the Interstellar Medium: Tracing the Timescales of Gas Evolution and Star Formation across Galactic Environments, ApJ, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae8539

Kratev, Plamen G. (2026), Millisecond-Scale Neural Operator Surrogates for Double-Null
Free-Boundary Grad–Shafranov Equilibria, arXiv: 2608.05555 [physics.plasm-ph] 

Liu, Mengren Bill (2026), Predicting Surface Atomic Structures on Doped Perovskite Oxides Using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo: Model System of La0.6Sr0.4FeO3–δ, Chem. Mater., doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c00609 

Mayné i Comas, Oriol et al (2026), Refining heuristic predictors of fractional Chern insulators using machine learning, Physical Review B, doi: 10.1103/qyj5-cd7k 

Mon, Fiona et al (2026), Structure and dynamics of confined water in amyloid protein fibril nanochannels, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2613258123

Nearing, J.T. et al (2026), Gut microbiome–metabolome interactions during varied low-carbohydrate food consumption, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2533462123

Niraula, Prajwalet al (2026), Comprehensive Ab Initio Quantum Computations of CO2–H2 and CO2–He Collisional Properties
, ApJ, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae83a3

Novick, Isabel Andie (2026), Evolution, Population Dynamics, and Identification Methods of Globally Distributed Synanthropic Pests in Lepidopteran Family Tineidae, Boston University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2026. 32398657 

Østerstrøm, Freja F. et al (2026), Attributing the Stratospheric Impacts from the Water-rich Explosive Hunga Volcanic Eruption of 2022, ESS Open Archive, doi: 10.22541/essoar.15008009/v1 

Poza, M. Izquierdo et al (2026), Optical characterization of the BICEP array 150 and 220/270GHz CMB polarimeters in the 2026 season, Proc. SPIE 14156, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XIII, 141561X, doi: 10.1117/12.3104091

Pujet, S. et al (2026), Computational Design of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Mechanocatalysts, via chemrxiv, doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv.15006528/v1 

Silveira, Lucas Q. and Adrian E. Feiguin (2026), Time and Momentum Resolved Tunneling Spectroscopy of Floquet dynamics, arXiv: 2608.26270 [cond-mat.str-el] 

Souery, Whitney (2026), Airway Gene Expression Changes Associated With COPD: Clinical Heterogeneity and Environmental Risk Factors, Boston University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2026. 32450835 

Sprague, Milo et al (2026), Temperature-dependent evolution of the electronic structure in EuZn2⁢As2 across the Néel transition, Physical Review B, doi: 10.1103/np9y-351t

Steiger, S. et al. (2026), Status of BICEP array and integration of the 220/270GHz receiver, Proc. SPIE 14156, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XIII, 1415609, doi: 10.1117/12.3104106

Tommila, Christopher D. et al, (2026), Comparative Analysis of Predicted Spacecraft State Uncertainty, J of Spacecraft and Rockets, doi: 10.2514/1.A36762

Vuina, Dominik (2026), Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Quantum Systems, Boston University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2026. 32400468  [BU Shared Computing Cluster]

Wang, Eric and Arup K. Chakraborty (2026), Design of an immunogen containing multidimensionally conserved and immunogenic parts of the HIV proteome, PLOS Computational Biology, doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014632 

Yang, Sibin (2026), Spectral Properties of Low-Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems, Boston University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2026. 32399058 

Yang, Sibin et al (2026), Single-hole spectral functions in one-dimensional quantum magnets with different ground states, Physical Review B, doi: 10.1103/y3sq-8knz 

Zeng, H. et al (2026), Revisiting Open-Loop Execution in Robotics: Toward Reactive, Higher-Performing Policies, arXiv: 2608.15938 [ cs.RO]  

Zheng, Jonathan W.  (2026), Prediction of Relative Kinetic Solvent Effects for SN2 Reactions Using COSMO-RS, J. Phys. Chem. B, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6c04103

Zhu, Q. et al (2026), Weak tropical tropospheric OH response to idealized ENSO, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2026GL122619 

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