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20172026
most citedColossal Nernst power factor in topological semimetal NbSb

64 citations · 186 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Proximity-induced charge transfer, strain and magnetic exchange in graphene/CrSBr heterostructure

Asish K. Kundu, Anil Rajapitamahuni, Niraj Aryal +8

Stacking van der Waals materials provides a powerful route to engineer emergent electronic and magnetic behaviors through proximity-driven interactions. The graphene/CrSBr heterost…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Data-efficient surrogate modeling of spectral functions using Gaussian processes: An application to the --- model

Sanket Jantre, Nathan M. Urban, Weiguo Yin +1

Spectral functions encode key many-body information but are costly to compute with high fidelity. Machine-learning surrogates have emerged as a powerful alternative, yet many appro…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Competing magnetic phases in CrTe are spatially segregated

V. K. Bhartiya, Anirban Goswami, Nicholas Ng +10

CrTe is a self-intercalated vdW system that is of current interest for its room-temperature FM phases and tunable topological properties. Early NPD measurements on the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Peierls Transition and Magnetism in a Dirac Semimetal: CaMnBi

Aashish Sapkota, Niraj Aryal, Xiao Hu +9

Dirac semimetals of the form Mn ( alkaline-earth or divalent rare earth; Bi, Sb) host conducting square-net Dirac-electron layers of atoms interleaved with a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Large non-saturating Nernst thermopower and magnetoresistance in compensated semimetal ScSb

Antu Laha, Sarah Paone, Niraj Aryal +1

Today, high-performance thermoelectric and thermomagnetic materials operating in the low-temperature regime, particularly below the boiling point of liquid nitrogen remain scarce.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Single crystalline orthorhombic GdAlGe as a rare earth magnetic Dirac nodal-line metal

Antu Laha, Juntao Yao, Asish K. Kundu +11

Crystal engineering is a method for discovering new quantum materials and phases, which may be achieved by external pressure or strain. Chemical pressure is unique in that it gener…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 3 cited

EuAuSb: An odd-parity helical variation on altermagnetism

J. Sears, Juntao Yao, Zhixiang Hu +7

EuAuSb is a triangular-lattice Dirac semimetal in which a topological Hall effect has been observed to develop in association with a magnetically-ordered phase. Our single-crystal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Nernst power factor and figure of merit in compensated semimetal ScSb

Antu Laha, Sarah Paone, Asish K. Kundu +4

Recently, topological semimetals have emerged as strong candidates for solid state thermomagnetic refrigerators due to their enhanced Nernst effect. This enhancement arises from th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Machine learning approach for vibronically renormalized electronic band structures

Niraj Aryal, Sheng Zhang, Weiguo Yin +1

We present a machine learning (ML) method for efficient computation of vibrational thermal expectation values of physical properties from first principles. Our approach is based on…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Origin of light-induced metastability in ZrTe

D. Nevola, N. Aryal, G. D. Gu +3

We study the non-equilibrium electronic structure of a model Dirac semimetal ZrTe by using time-and-angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory-base…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

On the origin of metal-insulator transitions in the parent compounds of ruthenium-pnictide superconductors

Niraj Aryal, Emil S. Bozin, Weiguo Yin

We study the interplay of the structural phase transition, flat electronic band dispersion, and metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) in the parent compounds of the Ru-pnictide super…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Electronic structure, magnetic and transport properties of antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal GdAlSi

Antu Laha, Asish K. Kundu, Niraj Aryal +12

We report the topological electronic structure, magnetic, and magnetotransport properties of a noncentrosymmetric compound GdAlSi. Magnetic susceptibility shows an antiferromagneti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 64 cited

Colossal Nernst power factor in topological semimetal NbSb

Peng Li, Pengfei Qiu, Qing Xu +7

Today solid-state cooling technologies below liquid nitrogen boiling temperature (77 K), crucial to quantum information technology and probing quantum state of matter, are greatly…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 1 cited

Thermal transport properties of IrSbSe

Yu Liu, Milinda Abeykoon, Niraj Aryal +4

We report a thermal transport study of IrSbSe, which crystallizes in a noncentrosymmetric cubic structure with the space group and shows a narrow-gap semiconducting behavio…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 8 cited

Role of Local Ru Hexamers in Superconductivity of Ruthenium Phosphide

Robert J. Koch, Niraj Aryal, Oleh Ivashko +7

Superconductivity in binary ruthenium pnictides occurs proximal to and upon suppression of a mysterious non-magnetic ground state, preceded by a pseudogap phase associated with Fer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 10 cited

Topological Antiferromagnetic Semimetal for Spintronics: A Case Study of a Layered Square Net System EuZnSb

Niraj Aryal, Qiang Li, A. M. Tsvelik +1

We use the first principles and effective Hamiltonian methods to study the electronic structure and magnetic properties of a recently synthesized layered antiferromagnetic square n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

Anomalous Hall effect at the Lifshitz transition in ZrTe5

Pedro M. Lozano, Gabriel Cardoso, Niraj Aryal +5

Zirconium pentatelluride ZrTe5 is a topological semimetal. The presence of a temperature induced Lifshitz transition, in which the Fermi level goes from the conduction band to the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Robust and tunable Weyl phases by coherent infrared phonons in ZrTe

Niraj Aryal, Xilian Jin, Qiang Li +3

Ultrafast optical control of the structural and electronic properties of various quantum materials has recently sparked great interest. In particular, photoinduced quantum phase tr…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 18 cited

Three-dimensional Ising Ferrimagnetism of Cr-Fe-Cr trimers in FeCr2Te4

Yu Liu, R. J. Koch, Zhixiang Hu +7

We carried out a comprehensive study of magnetic critical behavior in single crystals of ternary chalcogenide FeCrTe that undergoes a ferrimagnetic transition below $…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 31 cited

Topological phase transition and phonon-space Dirac topology surfaces in ZrTe

Niraj Aryal, Xilian Jin, Q. Li +2

We use first-principles methods to reveal that in ZrTe, a layered van der Waals material like graphite, atomic displacements corresponding to five of the six zone-center A…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 15 cited

Electronic Structure and Magnetism in the Layered Triangular Lattice Compound CeAuAlGe

S. Zhang, N. Aryal, K. Huang +7

Results are reported for the -electron intermetallic CeAuAlGe, where the atomic arrangement of the cerium ions creates the conditions for geometric frustration. Despite…