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most citedMagnetic, thermal, and electronic-transport properties of EuMg2Bi2 single crystals

48 citations · 376 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 6 cited

AlMnCu: A magnetically ordered member of the Heusler alloy family despite having a valence electron count of 24

Soumya Bhowmik, Santanu Pakhira, Renu Choudhary +6

The magnetic property of the Heusler alloys can be predicted by the famous Slater-Pauling (S-P) rule, which states the total magnetic moment () of such materials can be expres…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Spiral Spin Liquid State in the Corrugated Honeycomb Lattice of CaMnP

Farhan Islam, Nikita D. Andriushin, Thaís V. Trevisan +9

CaMnP exemplifies the realization of a frustrated -- Heisenberg model of a corrugated honeycomb magnetic lattice. Previous studies show that below the Néel t…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 13 cited

Low-Energy Electronic Structure in the Unconventional Charge-Ordered State of ScVSn

Asish K. Kundu, Xiong Huang, Eric Seewald +15

Kagome vanadates {\it A}VSb display unusual low-temperature electronic properties including charge density waves (CDW), whose microscopic origin remains unsettled. Recently…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Antiferromagnetic domains in a single crystal of the A-type spin-7/2 trigonal topological insulator EuSnAs

Santanu Pakhira, D. C. Johnston

EuSnAs is a trigonal A-type antiferromagnetic topological insulator with the moments aligned in the plane and with a Néel temperature K. Here we rep…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetic Dimers in Topological Insulators

Farhan Islam, Deborah Schlagel, Yongbin Lee +6

The addition of magnetic impurities in topological insulators can drive ferromagnetic order that leads to novel quantum anomalous Hall transport well below the Curie temperature. T…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Europium -axis ferromagnetism in Eu(CoNi)As: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study

Tianxiong Han, Santanu Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha +6

We report neutron diffraction results for the body-centered-tetragonal series Eu(CoNi)As, , , , and , , that detail cha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Origin of magnetic ordering in half-Heusler RuMnGa

Sudip Chakraborty, Shuvankar Gupta, Santanu Pakhira +6

The half-Heusler alloy RuMnGa having valence electron count (VEC) 18 has recently been theoretically proposed to exhibit compensated ferrimagnetic (CFiM) character instead of the e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Large saturation moment and high ferromagnetic transition temperature in a structurally disordered inverse Heusler alloy Fe2RuGe

Sudip Chakraborty, Shuvankar Gupta, Vidha Bhasin +10

We report the successful synthesis of a new 4 based polycrystalline inverse Heusler alloy FeRuGe by an arc melting process and have studied in detail its structural, magneti…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 2 cited

Gapless spinons and a field-induced soliton gap in the hyper-honeycomb Cu oxalate framework compound [(CH)NH]Cu(CO)

C. Dissanayake, A. C. Jacko, K. Kumarasinghe +14

We report a detailed study of the specific heat and magnetic susceptibility of single crystals of a spin liquid candidate: the hyper-honeycomb Cu oxalate framework compound [(C…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 25 cited

Experimental observation of spin glass state in highly disordered quaternary Heusler alloy FeRuMnGa

Shuvankar Gupta, Sudip Chakraborty, Santanu Pakhira +8

The realization of spin-glass (S-G) state in Heusler alloys is very rare despite the presence of inherent structural and elemental disorder in those compounds. Although a few half…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 12 cited

4d-element induced improvement of structural disorder and development of weakly re-entrant spin-glass behaviour in NiRuMnSn

Shuvankar Gupta, Sudip Chakraborty, Vidha Bhasin +12

The pursuit of efficient spin-polarization in quaternary Heusler alloys with the general formula (where X, , and Y are transition metals and Z is a p-block element), ha…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Temperature-dependent Eu spin reorientations in the tetragonal A-type antiferromagnet EuGa induced by small ab-plane magnetic fields

Santanu Pakhira, David C. Johnston

The body-centered-tetragonal antiferromagnet EuGa exhibits A-type antiferromagnetic order below its Néel temperature K in magnetic field where the mo…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 22 cited

High spin-polarization in a disordered novel quaternary Heusler alloy FeMnVGa

Shuvankar Gupta, Sudip Chakraborty, Vidha Bhasin +10

In this work, we report the successful synthesis of a Fe-based novel half-metallic quaternary Heusler alloy FeMnVGa and its structural, magnetic and transport properties probed thr…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 20 cited

Anisotropic magnetism and electronic structure of trigonal EuAlGe single crystals

Santanu Pakhira, Asish K. Kundu, Farhan Islam +10

The magnetic and electronic properties of the layered Zintl-phase compound EuAlGe crystallizing in the trigonal CaAlSi-type structure are reported. Our neutron-diff…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 17 cited

Magnetic frustration driven by conduction carrier blocking in NdCoSi

Mily Kundu, Santanu Pakhira, Renu Choudhary +6

The intermetallic compound NdCoSi having a triangular lattice could be synthesized in single-phase only with defect crystal structure. Investigation through d…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 31 cited

Coexisting structural disorder and robust spin-polarization in half-metallic FeMnVAl

Shuvankar Gupta, Sudip Chakraborty, Santanu Pakhira +6

Half-metallic ferromagnets (HMF) are on one of the most promising materials in the field of spintronics due to their unique band structure consisting of one spin sub-band having me…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 7 cited

Low-field magnetic anomalies in single crystals of the A-type square-lattice antiferromagnet EuGa

Santanu Pakhira, D. C. Johnston

The body-centered-tetragonal antiferromagnet EuGa was recently identified as a Weyl nodal-line semimetal that exhibits the topological Hall effect below its reported antiferrom…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 10 cited

Electronic and magnetic properties of the topological semimetal SmMgBi

Asish K. Kundu, Santanu Pakhira, Tufan Roy +7

Dirac semimetals show nontrivial physical properties and can host exotic quantum states like Weyl semimetals and topological insulators under suitable external conditions. Here, by…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 11 cited

Magnetic-field-induced ab-plane rotation of the Eu magnetic moments in trigonal EuMg2Bi2 and EuMg2Sb2 single crystals below their Neel temperatures

Santanu Pakhira, Yongbin Lee, Liqin Ke +1

The thermodynamic and electronic-transport properties of trigonal EuMg2Bi2 in ab-plane magnetic fields Hx and the A-type antiferromagnetic structure have recently been reported. At…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Topological electronic structure of YbMgBi and CaMgBi

Asish K. Kundu, Tufan Roy, Santanu Pakhira +6

Zintl compounds have been extensively studied for their outstanding thermoelectric properties, but their electronic structure remains largely unexplored. Here, we present a detaile…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 8 cited

Frustrated Magnetic Cycloidal Structure and Emergent Potts Nematicity in CaMnP

Farhan Islam, Thaís V. Trevisan, Thomas Heitmann +6

We report neutron-diffraction results on single-crystal CaMnP containing corrugated Mn honeycomb layers and determine its ground-state magnetic structure. The diffraction p…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 27 cited

A-type antiferromagnetic order in semiconducting EuMgSb single crystals

Santanu Pakhira, Farhan Islam, Evan O'Leary +6

Eu-based Zintl-phase materials EuAPn (A = Mg, In, Cd, Zn; Pn = Bi, Sb, As, P) have generated significant recent interest owing to the complex interplay of magnetism and ban…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 3 cited

Itinerant G-type antiferromagnet SrCr2As2 studied by magnetization, heat capacity, electrical resistivity, and NMR measurements

Q. -P. Ding, Santanu Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha +6

The physical properties of itinerant antiferromagnetic (AFM) SrCrAs with body-centered tetragonal ThCrSi structure were investigated in single crystalline and polyc…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 1 cited

Slow spin dynamics in the hyper-honeycomb Lattice [(C2H5)3NH]2Cu2(C2O4)3 revealed by 1H NMR studies

Q. -P. Ding, C. Dissanayake, Santanu Pakhira +5

We report the results of magnetic susceptibility and H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on a three-dimensional hyper-honeycomb lattice compound [(CH)$_…