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20142026
most citedOrbital Hall effect as an alternative to valley Hall effect in gapped graphene

155 citations · 1.1k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

math.ST2026

Estimation of multiple precision matrices under shared support with heterogeneous edge strengths

Sayan Ranjan Bhowal, Debashis Paul, Gopal K Basak +1

Estimating multiple precision matrices in high-dimension presents significant challenges, particularly when distinct datasets share a common conditional dependency structure but ex…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Room-Temperature Electric-Field Control of Anomalous Hall Effect in Py/BTO/LSMO Heterostructures

Kusampal Yadav, Kousik Das, Aditya Raj +7

We demonstrate room temperature electric field control of the anomalous Hall effect in epitaxial Ni80Fe20 (Py) BaTiO3 (BTO) La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) thin film heterostructures grown o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Interface engineering of the anomalous Hall effect in Ni-based heterostructures

Mainak Ghosh, Kusampal Yadav, Kalyan sarkar +3

Using a combined experimental and first-principles theoretical approach, we demonstrate interface engineering of the anomalous Hall effect in Ni-based epitaxial thin-film heterostr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Orbital and Spin Nernst Effects in Monolayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Saikat Saha, Arnab Bose, Sayantika Bhowal

In recent years, orbitronic effects have attracted growing attention as complementary counterparts to the well-established spintronic phenomena. In this work, we demonstrate that m…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Interplay of Valley, Orbital, Spin, and Layer Degrees of Freedom in TaCS MXene

Kunal Dutta, Anupam Mondal, Sayantika Bhowal +2

We show that the MXene TaCS provides an excellent platform for hosting multiple coupled degrees of freedom, viz., valley, spin, orbital, and layer. The interplay among thes…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Why is the -Wave spin splitting in CuF bulk-like?

Muskan, Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay, Sayantika Bhowal

With the advent of nonrelativistic spin splitting in collinear compensated antiferromagnets, several candidate materials have also been proposed, among which the family of transiti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Non-relativistic spin splitting: Features and Functionalities

Sayantika Bhowal, Arnab Bose

Recently, spin splitting of non-relativistic origin in compensated antiferromagnets has drawn growing attention in condensed matter research. Although many materials, now known to…

math.ST2025

Statistical inference using debiased group graphical lasso for multiple sparse precision matrices

Sayan Ranjan Bhowal, Debashis Paul, Gopal K Basak +1

Debiasing group graphical lasso estimates enables statistical inference when multiple Gaussian graphical models share a common sparsity pattern. We analyze the estimation propertie…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A Universal Framework for Controlling Non-Relativistic Spin Splitting

Aniruddha Ray, Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay, Sayantika Bhowal

Non-relativistic spin splitting in antiferromagnets has recently attracted considerable attention. Here we present a universal framework for controlling such spin splitting by iden…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 6 cited

Designing Non-Relativistic Spin Splitting in Oxide Perovskites

Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay, Silvia Picozzi, Sayantika Bhowal

We investigate the role of atomic distortions in non-relativistic spin splitting in perovskite oxides with Pbnm symmetry. Using LaMnO3 as a representative material, we analyze its…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Giant topological Hall effect in epitaxial NiFe/LaSrMnO thin film heterostructures

Kusampal Yadav, Dilruba Hasina, Nasiruddin Mondal +2

The emergence of new physical properties at the interfaces between complex oxides has always been of both fundamental and practical importance. Here, we report the observation of a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Rational Control of Magnonic and Electronic Band Splittings

Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay, Anoop Raj, Philippe Ghosez +2

We provide a theoretical demonstration of controllable non-relativistic spin splitting in both electronic and magnonic bands via targeted structural distortions tied to specific ph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Emergent surface multiferroicity

Sayantika Bhowal, Andrea Urru, Sophie F. Weber +1

We show that the surface of a centrosymmetric, collinear, compensated antiferromagnet, which hosts bulk ferroically ordered magnetic octupoles, exhibits a linear magnetoelectric ef…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Electric toroidal dipole order and hidden spin polarization in ferroaxial materials

Sayantika Bhowal, Nicola A. Spaldin

We investigate the role of electric toroidal dipoles in the prototypical ferroaxial materials NiTiO and KZr(PO), which undergo ferroaxial structural phase transitio…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Non-relativistic ferromagnetotriakontadipolar order and spin splitting in hematite

X. H. Verbeek, D. Voderholzer, S. Schären +3

We show that hematite, -FeO, below its Morin transition, has a ferroic ordering of rank-5 magnetic triakontadipoles on the Fe ions. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 23 cited

GdAlSi: An antiferromagnetic topological Weyl semimetal with non-relativistic spin splitting

Jadupati Nag, Bishal Das, Sayantika Bhowal +9

Spintronics has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional electronics based technologies in the past few decades. While on one hand, the discovery of topological phases of mat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Universal responses in nonmagnetic polar metals

Fabian Jäger, Nicola A. Spaldin, Sayantika Bhowal

We demonstrate that two phenomena, the kinetic magneto-electric effect and the non-linear Hall effect, are universal to polar metals, as a consequence of their coexisting and contr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 30 cited

Surface Magnetization in Antiferromagnets: Classification, example materials, and relation to magnetoelectric responses

Sophie F. Weber, Andrea Urru, Sayantika Bhowal +2

We use symmetry analysis and density functional theory to characterize antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials which have a finite equilibrium magnetization density on particular surface…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 153 cited

Magnetic octupoles as the order parameter for unconventional antiferromagnetism

Sayantika Bhowal, Nicola A. Spaldin

We show that time-reversal symmetry broken, centrosymmetric antiferromagnets with nonrelativistic spin-splitting are conveniently described in terms of the ferroic ordering of magn…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Polar metals: Principles and Prospects

Sayantika Bhowal, Nicola A. Spaldin

We review the class of materials known as polar metals, in which polarity and metallicity coexist in the same phase. While the notion of polar metals was first invoked more than 50…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 18 cited

The interplay between structural, magnetic and electronic states in the pyrochlore iridate Eu2Ir2O7

Manjil Das, Sayantika Bhowal, Jhuma Sannigrahi +8

We address the concomitant metal-insulator transition (MIT) and antiferromagnetic ordering in the novel pyrochlore iridate Eu2Ir2O7 by combining x-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 42 cited

Magnetoelectric classification of skyrmions

Sayantika Bhowal, Nicola A. Spaldin

We develop a general theory to classify magnetic skyrmions and related spin textures in terms of their magnetoelectric multipoles. Since magnetic skyrmions are now established in i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 73 cited

Orbital Hall effect in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides: From the intra-atomic approximation to the Bloch states orbital magnetic moment approach

Tarik P. Cysne, Sayantika Bhowal, Giovanni Vignale +1

Using an effective Dirac model, we study the orbital Hall effect (OHE) in bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with 2H stacking (2H-TMD). We use first-order perturbation th…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 1 cited

SrLiIrO: a potential quantum spin liquid candidate in the one dimensional iridate family

Abhisek Bandyopadhyay, A. Chakraborty, S. Bhowal +8

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) offers a large variety of novel and extraordinary magnetic and electronic properties in otherwise `ordinary pool' of heavy ion oxides. Here we present a d…