We are  a materials synthesis group. We synthesize and study magnetic and magnetotransport properties of various quantum materials. Our current focus is on the study of materials with magnetic and electronic topological states.

 

Research Highlights/Press Coverage

2021: Ghimire awarded NSF CAREER  Award

2020: Mason, NIST, ANL and ORNL collaboration discovers a new topological magnetic state

2018: Scientists find unusual behavior in topological material

 

Recent Publications

Preprints:

Magnetism and Fermiology of Kagome Magnet YMn6Sn4Ge2

arXiv:2304.11502

 

Origin of spin reorientation and intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in the kagome ferrimagnet TbMn6Sn6.

arXiv:2203.17246

Published articles:

CoTe2: A quantum critical Dirac metal with strong spin fluctuations 

Advanced Materials 2300640 (2023) (open access)

 

LiMo8O10: Polar Crystal Structure with Infinite Edge-Sharing Molybdenum Octahedra

Inorganic Chemistry

 

 

Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Metastable Ag2GeS3 Revealed by a Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study.

Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34, 14, 6420–6430. 

 

Visualizing the out-of-plane electronic dispersions in an intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide

Physical Review B, 105, L121107 (2022)

Preprint: arXiv:2203.00675

 

Magnetization-driven Lifshitz phase transition and charge-spin coupling in the kagome metal YMn6Sn6.

Communications Physics 5, 58 (2022).

 

Iridate Li8IrO6: An Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 17201−17211

 

 

High-throughput search for magnetic topological materials using spin-orbit spillage, machine-learning and experiments

Physical Review B 103, 155131 (2021)

Preprint: arXiv:2102.00237

 

Isotropic Nature of the Metallic Kagome Ferromagnet Fe3Sn2 at High Temperatures

Crystals, 11, 307 (2021)

 

Chiral properties of the zero-field spiral state and field-induced magnetic phases of the itinerant kagome metal YMn6Sn6

Physical Review B, 103, 094413 (2021)

Preprint: arXiv:2012.13010

 

Competing magnetic phases and fluctuation-driven scalar spin chirality in the kagome metal YMn6Sn6

Science Advances 6, eabe2680 (2020)

Fermi surface topology and non-trivial Berry phase in the flat-band semimetal Pd3Pb

Physical Review B 101, 245113 (2020)

preprint: arXiv:2006.01871

Giant anomalous Hall effect in quasi two-dimensional layered antiferromagnet Co1/3NbS2

Physical Review Research 2, 023051 (2020)

Topology and correlations on the kagome lattice

Nature Materials 19, 130 (2020)

 

A New Three-Dimensional Subsulfide Ir2In8S with Dirac Semimetal Behavior

Journal of the American Chemical Society 141, 19130 (2019)