Publications of NIC projects 2026

Alexandrou, Constantia ; Bacchio, Simone ; Cichy, Krzysztof ; Constantinou, Martha ; Sen, Aniket ; Spanoudes, Gregoris ; Steffens, Fernanda ; Tarello, Jacopo
Collins-Soper kernel and reduced soft function in lattice QCD
Physical Review D 113, (2026), 10.1103/5wft-9rtd

Ba, Jing ; Tong, Maozheng ; Pang, Mengqiang ; Qadrouh, Ayman N ; Alajmi, Mamdoh ; Carcione, José M ; Balcewicz, Martin
Estimation of elastic wave properties of tight sandstones using a reformulated digital rock physics method and ultrasonic experiments
Geophysical Journal International 245, (2026), 10.1093/gji/ggag096

Boccaletti, A. ; Borsanyi, Sz. ; Cotellucci, A. ; Davier, M. ; Fodor, Z. ; Frech, F. ; Gérardin, A. ; Giusti, D. ; Kotov, A. Yu. ; Lellouch, L. ; Lippert, Th. ; Lupo, A. ; Malaescu, B. ; Mutzel, S. ; Portelli, A. ; Risch, A. ; Sjö, M. ; Stokes, F. ; Szabo, K. K. ; Toth, B. C. ; Wang, G. ; Zhang, Z.
Hybrid calculation of hadronic vacuum polarization in muon g − 2 to 0.48%
Nature 653, 373-377 (2026), 10.1038/s41586-026-10449-z

Buaria, Dhawal ; Pumir, Alain
Turbulence intermittency and velocity gradients
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1034, (2026), 10.1017/jfm.2026.11494

Carstens, Finn-Ole ; Bernert, Constantin ; Bussmann, Michael ; Debus, Alexander ; Hirsch-Passicos, Arthur ; Ordyna, Paweł ; Steiniger, Klaus ; Widera, René ; Schramm, Ulrich ; Pausch, Richard
Synthetic optical imaging in PIConGPU
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 68, 062502 (2026), 10.1088/1361-6587/ae6bb8

Chattopadhyay, Rajorshi ; Jahn, Sandro
Vibrational and Structural Properties of Aqueous H_2SO_4 and Na_2SO_4 Systems from Ambient to Supercritical Conditions: A Comparative Study between GGA(-D3) and r2SCAN Functionals
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 130, 5309-5318 (2026), 10.1021/acs.jpca.6c03132

Chen, Jiao ; Wang, Xuezhu ; Wang, Qiang ; Li, Xinyue ; Müller, Vasco ; Danilov, Sergey ; Wang, Xidong ; Jung, Thomas
Warmer Atlantic Water intrusion energizes the Arctic Eurasian Basin
Communications Earth & Environment 7, (2026), 10.1038/s43247-026-03507-x

Chen, Shuying ; Goergen, Klaus ; Hendricks Franssen, Harrie-Jan ; Franzmann, David ; Winkler, Christoph ; Ishmam, Shitab ; Poll, Stefan ; Linssen, Jochen ; Vereecken, Harry ; Heinrichs, Heidi
High-resolution atmospheric modelling reveals lower costs for renewable energy systems in Southern Africa
Energy 342, 139565 (2026), 10.1016/j.energy.2025.139565

Chi, Cheng ; Dernbecher, Andrea ; Subramanian, Kesav Prasath Ramasamy ; Rico, Juan Jesús ; Dieguez-Alonso, Alba ; Adhikari, Suraj ; Deng, Sili ; Thévenin, Dominique
Chemical reaction neural networks for semi-detailed kinetic schemes including the influence of inorganics and secondary reactions during cellulose pyrolysis
Energy Conversion and Management 348, 120655 (2026), 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120655

Chi, Cheng ; Han, Wang ; Thévenin, Dominique
Local extinction characteristics of turbulent premixed H_2 air flame under sub-atmospheric pressure conditions: A DNS study
Combustion and Flame 283, 114580 (2026), 10.1016/j.combustflame.2025.114580

Chi, Cheng ; Cuenot, Benedicte ; Thévenin, Dominique
Turbulent flame–wall interaction: dynamics of flame thickness and combustion regime
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1029, (2026), 10.1017/jfm.2026.11189

Docter, Steffen ; David, Benoit ; Gohlke, Holger
Deep learning and generative artificial intelligence methods in enzyme and cell engineering
Current Opinion in Biotechnology 97, 103393 (2026), 10.1016/j.copbio.2025.103393

Duan, K. ; Vu, T.H. ; Kadyk, T. ; Xie, Q. ; Harting, J. ; Eikerling, M.
Parasitic hydrogen bubble evolution in vanadium redox flow batteries: A lattice Boltzmann study
Energy Conversion and Management 348, 120754 (2026), 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120754

Franck, Max ; Dabrowski, Jaroslaw ; Schubert, Markus Andreas ; Sfuncia, Gianfranco ; Nicotra, Giuseppe ; Wenger, Christian ; Lukosius, Mindaugas
Direct Synthesisof Ultrathin Hexagonal Boron NitrideFilms on Si(001)
Nano Letters 26, 7701-7707 (2026), 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c01435

Gao, Yajian ; Rietbrock, Andreas ; Tilmann, Frederik ; Dushi, Edmond
High-Resolution Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Secondary Microseisms via Multi-Array Analysis
Geophysical Journal International 244, (2026), 10.1093/gji/ggag006

Gorzkiewicz, Michal ; Noseir, Soha ; Vengurlekar, Mandar ; Ghosh, Mitrajit ; Katahira, Ichiro ; Abromavičiūtė, Džiuljeta ; Gerling-Driessen, Ulla ; Bonda, Lorand ; Rähse, Nick ; Lapsien, Marco ; Bockholt, Sabrina ; Bergmann, Ann Kathrin ; Kostadinovska, Konstantina ; Fraii, Hafssa ; Lang, Karl S ; Oestereich, Lisa ; Gohlke, Holger ; Hartmann, Laura ; Lang, Philipp A
Sulfated glycosaminoglycans inhibit LCMV entry and modulate antiviral immunity and pathology
EMBO Molecular Medicine 18, 1235-1264 (2026), 10.1038/s44321-026-00387-8

Gu, Chenyi ; Heinz, Matthias ; Kiss, Oriel ; Papenbrock, Thomas
Toward scalable quantum computations of atomic nuclei
Physical Review C 113, (2026), 10.1103/gqdy-dvps

Häfner, Gregor ; Busch, Matthias ; Dabah, Adel ; Xie, Jiayu ; Blagojevic, Niklas ; Das, Shibananda ; Happ, Sonja ; Pickartz, Simon ; Großmann, Larissa ; Radjabian, Maryam ; Abetz, Volker ; Cyron, Christian J. ; Herten, Andreas ; Aydin, Roland C. ; Müller, Marcus
Concurrently coupling particle and continuum simulations to study block copolymer membrane fabrication
The Journal of Chemical Physics 164, (2026), 10.1063/5.0334617

Häfner, Gregor ; Müller, Marcus
GPU-accelerated continuum dynamics of block copolymer blends and solutions
The Journal of Chemical Physics 164, (2026), 10.1063/5.0305862

Harting, Jens ; Beunen, Johannes Martinus Peter
Performance optimization of bijels as a novel type of catalyst support structure
Zenodo , (2026), 10.5281/zenodo.18861001

Heinz, Matthias
Computational schemes for the Magnus expansion of the in-medium similarity renormalization group
Physical Review C 113, (2026), 10.1103/n348-lvll

Hijikata, Y ; Zenihiro, J ; Terashima, S ; Matsuda, Y ; Sakaguchi, H ; Arthuis, P ; Miyagi, T ; Ota, S ; Baba, H ; Chebotaryov, S ; Dozono, M ; Furuno, T ; Harada, T ; Iwamoto, C ; Kawabata, T ; Kobayashi, M ; Krasznahorkay, A J ; Leblond, S ; Lokotko, T ; Maeda, Y ; Masuoka, S ; Matsushita, M ; Michimasa, S ; Milman, E ; Murakami, T ; Nasu, H ; Okamoto, J ; Sakaguchi, S ; Takaki, M ; Taniue, K ; Tokieda, H ; Tsumura, M ; Wieland, O ; Yamaguchi, Y ; Yang, Z H ; Yokoyama, R ; Uesaka, T
First Extraction of the Matter Radius of 132Sn via Proton Elastic Scattering at 200 MeV/Nucleon
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2026, (2026), 10.1093/ptep/ptaf182

Hildenbrand, Fabian ; Elhatisari, Serdar ; Meißner, Ulf-G. ; Meyer, Helen ; Ren, Zhengxue ; Herten, Andreas ; Bode, Mathis
Lattice Calculation of the Sn Isotopes near the Proton Dripline
Physical Review Letters 136, (2026), 10.1103/n7nt-s64t

Kaandorp, Mikael L. A. ; Zhao, Haojin ; Poppe Terán, Christian ; Hartick, Carl ; Rigor, Paul ; Hendricks Franssen, Harrie‐Jan
History Matching of Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration Over Europe Using Iterative Ensemble Smoothers
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 18, (2026), 10.1029/2026MS005795

Kaandorp, Mikael L. A. ; Zhao, Haojin ; Poppe Terán, Christian ; Hartick, Carl ; Rigor, Paul ; Hendricks Franssen, Harrie‐Jan
History Matching of Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration Over Europe Using Iterative Ensemble Smoothers
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 18, (2026), 10.1029/2026ms005795

König, Lukas ; Kuhn, Manuel ; Kappel, David ; Subramoney, Anand
Training Event-Based Neural Networks with Exact Gradients via Differentiable ODE Solving in JAX
2026 Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) , 1-8 (2026), 10.1109/NICE69539.2026.11567462

Kretzler, D. ; Puri, R. ; Stelzner, B. ; Zirwes, T. ; Vignat, G. ; Hagen, F.P. ; Stein, O.T. ; Ihme, M. ; Trimis, D.
Non-premixed ammonia combustion in porous media to promote thermal cracking of NH3: A low-emission burner concept
Applications in Energy and Combustion Science 27, 100526 (2026), 10.1016/j.jaecs.2026.100526

Kuske, J. ; Miyagi, T. ; Arcones, A. ; Schwenk, A.
𝑟-Process Nucleosynthesis with Ab Initio Nuclear Masses around the 𝑁=82 Shell Closure
Physical Review Letters 137, (2026), 10.1103/k4lv-436c

Lapsien, Marco ; Bonus, Michele ; Greb, Julian ; Gohlke, Holger
LignAmb25: A comprehensive AMBER force field addressing lignin’s structural and chemical diversity
Biophysical Journal 125, 4391-4406 (2026), 10.1016/j.bpj.2026.04.004

Li, Zhen ; Miyagi, Takayuki ; Schwenk, Achim
Ab Initio Calculations of 𝛽-Decay Half-Lives for 𝑁=50 Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Physical Review Letters 136, (2026), 10.1103/xjv9-t6sn

Liu, Caili ; Müller, Vasco ; Shu, Qi ; Zhang, Shaoqing
Pronounced ocean thermal variability triggered by synoptic forcing in the Eastern Eurasian Arctic
Communications Earth & Environment 7, (2026), 10.1038/s43247-026-03443-w

Liu, Ying ; Blagojevic, Niklas ; Xuan, Qingdong ; Liu, Jiahe ; Liao, Yuan ; Fu, Yang ; Fang, Yanbo ; Cheng, Pengfei ; Xu, Xueling ; Wang, Tao ; Yi, Naiqin ; Li, Wei ; Müller, Marcus ; Dai, Jian-Guo ; Yang, Ronggui ; Lei, Dangyuan
One-step-processed bilayer ethyl cellulose for full-colour sub-ambient daytime radiative cooling
Nature Energy 11, 985-995 (2026), 10.1038/s41560-026-02039-0

Mariani, Annajoyce ; Maag, Kira ; Gottschalk, Hanno
VideoGAN-Based Trajectory Proposal for Automated Vehicles
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence , 1149-1156 (2026), 10.5220/0014229000004052

Marino, F. ; Bonaiti, F. ; Demol, P. ; Bacca, S. ; Duguet, T. ; Hagen, G. ; Jansen, G. R. ; Papenbrock, T. ; Tichai, A.
From closed shells to open shells: Coupled-cluster calculations of atomic nuclei
Physical Review C 113, (2026), 10.1103/p297-y8vq

Mathiak, Oliver ; Reichwein, Lars ; Pukhov, Alexander
Electron–positron pair generation using a single kJ-class laser pulse in a foam–reflector setup
Matter and Radiation at Extremes 11, (2026), 10.1063/5.0317574

Milousis, Alexandros ; Scholz, Susanne M. C. ; Fuchs, Hendrik ; Tsimpidi, Alexandra P. ; Karydis, Vlassis A.
Global perspectives on nitrate aerosol dynamics: a comprehensive sensitivity analysis
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 26, 571-605 (2026), 10.5194/acp-26-571-2026

Miyagi, T. ; Heinz, M. ; Schwenk, A.
Ab initio computations of the fourth-order charge density moments of 48Ca and 208Pb
Physics Letters B 872, 140032 (2026), 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.140032

Moura de Alencar, Otavio Higino ; Wu, James ; Müller, Marcus ; Mukherji, Debashish
Thermal conductivity of commodity polymers under high pressures
The Journal of Chemical Physics 164, (2026), 10.1063/5.0311544

Mukherji, Debashish ; Müller, Marcus
Linking Electrostatic-Induced Chain Stiffening to Heat Flow in Amorphous Polymers
ACS Macro Letters 15, 685-689 (2026), 10.1021/acsmacrolett.6c00120

Mukherji, Debashish ; de Oliveira, Tiago Espinosa ; Chowdhury, Nusrat ; Cahill, David G. ; Müller, Marcus
Heat Flow in Solvent–Free, Dense Amorphous and Semi–Crystalline Cellulose Derivatives
Macromolecules 59, 575-586 (2026), 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c02281

Mukherji, Debashish ; Müller, Marcus ; Müser, Martin H.
Computing finite-temperature elastic constants with noise cancellation
Physical Review Materials 10, (2026), 10.1103/sd49-wqd6

Paul, Dwaipayan ; Trukhan, Elena ; Protik, Nakib H.
Ab initio study of Coulomb drag driven electron-hole bifluidity in doped graphene
Physical Review B 114, (2026), 10.1103/q4mx-9tmn

Peeters, Stefan ; García, Edder J. ; Stief, Franziska ; Reichenbach, Thomas ; Falk, Kerstin ; Moras, Gianpietro ; Moseler, Michael
When wall slip wins over shear flow: A temperature-dependent Eyring slip law and a thermal multiscale model for diamond-like carbon lubricated by a polyalphaolefin oil
Tribology International 214, 111305 (2026), 10.1016/j.triboint.2025.111305

Plies, T. ; Heinz, M. ; Schwenk, A.
Uncertainties with low-resolution nuclear forces
Physical Review C 114, (2026), 10.1103/cqtc-d146

Puri, Rishabh ; Zirwes, Thorsten ; Stein, Oliver T.
Numerical analysis of ammonia dehydrogenation in porous media combustion
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 42, 106095 (2026), 10.1016/j.proci.2026.106095

Rantala, Antti ; Naab, Thorsten ; Lahén, Natalia ; Reuter, Klaus ; Rampp, Markus ; Chruślińska, Martyna ; Reinoso, Bastián
FROST-CLUSTERS – III. Metallicity-dependent intermediate-mass black hole formation by runaway collisions in dense star clusters
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 549, (2026), 10.1093/mnras/stag986

Reichwein, Lars ; Yu, Tong-Pu ; Pukhov, Alexander ; Büscher, Markus
Laguerre–Gaussian pulses for spin-polarized ion beam acceleration
High Power Laser Science and Engineering 14, (2026), 10.1017/hpl.2025.10098

S. Lautenbach, J. Luebke, M. E. Innocenti, K. Kormann, and R. Grauer
Optimal Landau-type closure parameters for two-fluid simulations of plasma turbulence at kinetic scales
Journal of Plasma Physics 92, E8 (2026), 10.1017/S0022377825101190

Scannapieco, Evan ; Brüggen, Marcus ; Grete, Philipp ; Pan, Liubin
An Improved Fit to the Density Fluctuations in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
The Astrophysical Journal 998, 270 (2026), 10.3847/1538-4357/ae394d

Schnierstein, N. ; Neggers, R. A. J.
Lead Impacts on the Moist Static Energy Budget of the Low‐Level Arctic Atmosphere in Large‐Eddy Simulations Based on MOSAiC Data
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 18, (2026), 10.1029/2025MS005560

Song, Young-Ho ; Kim, Myungkuk ; Kim, Youngman ; Cho, Kihyeon ; Elhatisari, Serdar ; Lee, Dean ; Ma, Yuan-Zhuo ; Meißner, Ulf-G
Ab initio calculations of the carbon and oxygen isotopes: Energies, correlations, and superfluid pairing
Physics Letters B 872, 140086 (2026), 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.140086

Souza, Renan da Silva ; Xu, Youjiang ; Hofstetter, Walter
Paramagnetic phases of strongly correlated ultracold fermions coupled to an optical cavity
Physical Review A 113, (2026), 10.1103/1b7p-z928

Spencer, Russell K. W. ; Müller, Marcus
Dynamin optimizes protein-membrane interactions for fission
npj Soft Matter 2, (2026), 10.1038/s44431-026-00018-9

Vergara, M. C. ; Askar, A. ; Flammini Dotti, F. ; Schleicher, D. R. G. ; Escala, A. ; Spurzem, R. ; Giersz, M. ; Hurley, J. ; Arca Sedda, M. ; Neumayer, N.
Efficient black hole seed formation in low-metallicity and dense stellar clusters with implications for JWST sources
Astronomy & Astrophysics 707, A71 (2026), 10.1051/0004-6361/202556878

Vernik, Urban ; Hebeler, Kai ; Schwenk, Achim
Exploring quark-mass-dependent three-nucleon forces in medium-mass nuclei
Physical Review C 113, (2026), 10.1103/gcpw-cy14

Wang, Qin ; Quercia, Alessio ; Bruns, Benjamin ; Morrison, Abigail ; Scharr, Hanno ; Krajsek, Kai
Self-Supervised Learning Based on Transformed Image Reconstruction for Equivariance-Coherent Feature Representation
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40, 26425-26434 (2026), 10.1609/aaai.v40i31.39849

Winogradow, Ekin ; Scheffler, Johannes ; Leucke, Moritz ; Heine, Thomas ; Golze, Dorothea
Vibrant: A Post-Processing Tool for Computational Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules, Liquids and Materials
Journal of Open Source Software 11, 10136 (2026), 10.21105/joss.10136

Wu, Linqian ; Elhatisari, Serdar ; Meißner, Ulf-G. ; Shen, Shihang ; Geng, Li-Sheng ; Kim, Youngman
Searching for the Tetraneutron Resonance on the Lattice
Physical Review Letters 136, (2026), 10.1103/89w9-p443

Xie, Qingguang ; Harting, Jens
Simulations of inertial liquid-lens coalescence with the pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method
Capillarity 18, 41-49 (2026), 10.46690/capi.2026.02.01