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most citedCoherent Helicity-Dependent Spin-Phonon Oscillations in the Ferromagnetic van der Waals Crystal CrI3

49 citations · 82 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Lattice dynamics of disordered phases of silicon and spatially resolved computations of thermal conductivity

A. Gautam, C. Ugwumadu, L. A. M. Rosset +3

The lattice dynamics of disordered systems (amorphous solids, polymers and glasses) are often distinct from crystalline analogues. Examples include the "two-level systems" and the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Solver-Agnostic Implementation of Atom-Informed Thermal Conductivity Fields in Continuum Heat-Flow Simulations

W. Downs, C. Ugwumadu, M. Ali +1

A recent work introduced the Simulator Collection for Atomic-to-Continuum Scales (SCACS) toolkit, a framework for improving finite element predictions of heat flow by mapping atom-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Real-Space Mapping of Electronic Conductivity in Complex Materials

C. Ugwumadu, D. A. Drabold, R. M. Tutchton

We introduce KuboMap, a real-space representation of electronic conductivity derived from the Kubo-Greenwood formula. KuboMap defines a nonnegative conductivity density whose spati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Seamlessly joining length scales: From atomistic thermal graphs to anisotropic continuum conductivity

C. Ugwumadu, D. A. Drabold, R. M. Tutchton

Thermal transport in complex solids is governed by local structure, defects, and anisotropy, yet most continuum models still rely on oversimplified, homogenized conductivities. Her…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Temperature dependence of electronic conductivity from ab initio thermal simulation

Ridwan Hussein, Chinonso Ugwumadu, Kishor Nepal +3

We present a temperature-dependent extension of the approximate electronic conductivity formula of Hindley and Mott that leverages time-averaged fluctuations of the electronic dens…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Effect of Electron Correlation on the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

Daniel Staros, Christopher Lane, Roxanne Tutchton +1

We numerically investigate the effect of electron correlation on the integer quantum Hall effect in a square lattice. Increasing the correlation strength via the effective onsite r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Gaunt and Breit Two-electron contributions to Mean-field Transformations and Fine Structure Splitting

Luca Murg, Christopher Lane, Roxanne M. Tutchton

Materials utilized by novel energy systems are often studied using weakly correlated mean-field theories. However, if these systems incorporate heavy elements, relativistic effects…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Atomistic modeling of uranium monocarbide with a machine learning interatomic potential

Lorena Alzate-Vargas, Kashi N. Subedi, Roxanne M. Tutchton +3

Uranium monocarbide (UC) is an advanced ceramic fuel candidate due to its superior uranium density and thermal conductivity compared to traditional fuels. To accurately model UC at…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Effects of Galactic Irradiation on Thermal and Electronic Transport in Tungsten

C. Ugwumadu, D. A. Drabold, R. Tutchton

The impact of irradiation on the thermal and electronic properties of materials is a persistent puzzle, particularly defect formation at the atomic and nanoscales. This work examin…

cond-mat.str-el2024

First-Principles Study of the Fermi Surface Topology of CeCuSi

Roxanne M. Tutchton, Jean-Pierre Julien, Qimiao Si +1

Since the discovery of heavy-fermion superconductivity in CeCuSi, the material has attracted great interest particularly with regard to the nature of the superconductin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Toward machine learning interatomic potentials for modeling uranium mononitride

Lorena Alzate-Vargas, Kashi N. Subedi, Nicholas Lubbers +4

Uranium mononitride (UN) is a promising accident-tolerant fuel because of its high fissile density and high thermal conductivity. In this study, we developed the first machine lear…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 8 cited

Parameter free treatment of a layered correlated van der Waals magnet: CrPS

A. R. Alcantara, C. Lane, J. T. Haraldsen +1

The electronic and magnetic structure of CrPS, a 2D magnetic semiconductor is examined by employing the SCAN meta-GGA density functional. We find the resulting magnetic momen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Direct Observation of Coherent Longitudinal and Shear Acoustic Phonons in TaAs Using Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction

Min-Cheol Lee, N. Sirica, S. W. Teitelbaum +18

Using femtosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction, we investigated optically excited coherent acoustic phonons in the Weyl semimetal TaAs. The low symmetry of the (112) surface pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 49 cited

Coherent Helicity-Dependent Spin-Phonon Oscillations in the Ferromagnetic van der Waals Crystal CrI3

P. Padmanabhan, F. L. Buessen, R. Tutchton +9

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) systems hosting intrinsic long-range magnetic order represents a seminal addition to the rich physical landscape of van der Waals (vdW) materi…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 5 cited

Hybridization effect on the X-ray absorption spectra for actinide materials: Application to PuB

Wei-ting Chiu, Roxanne M. Tutchton, Giacomo Resta +5

Studying the local moment and 5-electron occupations sheds insight into the electronic behavior in actinide materials. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been a powerful to…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 20 cited

Electronic Correlation Induced Expansion of Compensated Electron and Hole Fermi Pockets in delta-Plutonium

Roxanne Tutchton, Wei-ting Chiu, R. C. Albers +2

Plutonium is a critically important material as the behavior of its 5f-electrons stands midway between the metallic-like itinerant character of the light actinides and localized at…