March 2026 Publications

April 1, 2026

Atmospheric escape rates from Mars? Simplified depletion chain in OpenMC? Chromosome-scale reference genome assemblies? A selection of recent publications featuring research using computers at the MGHPCC.

Abbott, Ryan et al (2026), Variance reduction in lattice QCD observables via normalizing flows, arXiv: 2603.02984 [hep-lat]

Ade, P.A.R. et al (2026), BICEP/Keck XXI: Constraints on Early-Universe Parity Violation from Multipole-Dependent Birefringence, arXiv: 2603.06812 [astro-ph.CO]

Brain, David A. et al (2026), Atmospheric Escape Rates from Mars - If it Orbited an Old M-Dwarf Star, arXiv: 2603.11561 [astro-ph.EP]

Faggioli, Guglielmo et al (2026), Modeling the merger-ringdown of an eccentric test-mass inspiral into a Kerr black hole using the effective-one-body framework, arXiv: 2603.19913 [gr-qc]

Ryan Flynn and Anders W. Sandvik (2026), SU(N) Quantum Spin Model with Weak and Strong First-Order N´eel to Valence-Bond Solid Transitions, arXiv: 2603.16106 [cond-mat.str-el]

Gibney, Evan M. et al (2026), The effect of surface sink saturation and emission altitude on hydrogen's atmospheric impact, Environ. Sci.: Atmos., doi: 10.1039/D5EA00139K

Gupta, Tanmay Gupta and Benoit Forget (2026), Modeling Decay Heat with aSimplified Depletion Chain in OpenMC, arXiv: 2603.17490 [physics.comp-ph]

Henzinger, Christina E. et al (2026), Controlled localization of anyons in a graphene quantum Hall interferometer, arXiv: 2603.11182 [cond-mat.mes-hall]

Tianyi Jin, Collin S. Lung, Ting Xu, Connor W. Coley, Alfredo Alexander-Katz (2026), Computational design of functional random heteropolymers through atomistic simulations, PLOS One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0343799

Tianyi Jin, Jacob I. Sass, Wenhao Gao, Aiden A. Hurst, Connor W. Coley, and Alfredo Alexander-Katz (2026), Polymerized Short Sequences as a Template for Protein Folding and Evolution, Nano Letters Article ASAP, doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c00527

Kim, Sangil et al (2026), Chromosome-scale reference genome assemblies for two Anoplophora longhorned beetle species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Genome Biology and Evolution, doi: 10.1093/gbe/evag064

Li, Qingchen et al (2026), Bound states of anyons: a geometric quantization approach, arXiv: 2603.24701 [cond-mat.str-el]

Moreno, Eric A. et al (2026), AI Agents Can Already Autonomously Perform Experimental High Energy Physics, arXiv: 2603.20179 [hep-ex]

Morris, Timothy P. et al (2026), Planning, Reminders and Micro-Incentives to Walk After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial, via medrXiv, doi: 10.64898/2026.02.26.26347181

Nishimura, Nami et al (2026), Advancing the Effective-One-Body Framework in the Test-Mass Limit, arXiv: 2603.05601 [gr-gc]

Reuther, A et al (2026), Interactive and Urgent HPC: State of the Research, arXiv: 2603.22542 [cs.DC]

Sharmer, V.K. et al (2026), Engineering Nonlinear Optical Responses via Inversion Symmetry Breaking in bilayer Bi2Se3, arXiv: 2603.24834 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Yu, A., Bi, H., Joshua, F. et al. (2026), Active site design enables industrial scale H2O2 electrosynthesis with metal-free catalysts, Nat Commun, doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-70983-2

Zagar, Saifuddin et al (2026), Effect of Grain Size and Local Chemical Order on Creep Resistance in MoNbTaW Refractory High-Entropy Alloy: A Molecular Dynamics Study, IOP Science, doi: 10.1088/1361-651X/ae54b6

Zhao, S.Y.F., Neves, P.M., Wakefield, J.P. et al. (2026), High-field triplet superconductivity in a transition metal dichalcogenide superlattice, Nat. Phys., doi: 10.1038/s41567-026-03185-8

J. Zhu, T. Li, H. Wang, Y. Shen, G. Hu and L. Tian (2026), Reflection-Mode Multi-Slice Fourier Ptychographic Tomography, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2026.3668501

Zhu, Q et al (2026), Uncertain natural emissions dampen the increase in tropospheric hydroxyl radical (OH) with idealized surface warming, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi: 10.1029/2025MS005248

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