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20132026
most citedAnomalous thermal conductivity and magnetic torque response in the honeycomb magnet -RuCl

205 citations · 463 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Toward Tunable Magnetic Dirac Semimetals: Mn Doping of CdAs

Anthony D. Rice, Ian Leahy, Herve Ness +8

Magnetic impurities provide a route toward increasing functionality in electronic materials, often enabling new device concepts and architectures. In the case of topological semime…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Chirality-induced magnetoresistance in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors

Md Azimul Haque, Pius Markus Theiler, Ian A. Leahy +14

The combination of semiconducting properties and synthetically tunable chirality in chiral metal halide semiconductors (CMHS) offer a compelling platform for room temperature contr…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Field-induced magnetic phase transition driven by a ground state level-crossing in CsErSe

Hope Whitelock, Allen O. Scheie, Marissa McMaster +12

We report a comprehensive study of the low-temperature magnetic properties of the insulating rare-earth triangular magnet CsErSe. We uncover a field-induced level crossing at t…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Robust and Symmetric Magnetic Field Dependency of Superconducting Diode Effect in Asymmetric Dirac Semimetal SQUIDs

H. C. Travaglini, J. J. Cuozzo, K. R. Sapkota +4

The recent demonstration of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has generated renewed interests in superconducting electronics in which devices such as compact superconducting d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Doping Topological Dirac Semimetal with magnetic impurities: electronic structure of Mn-doped CdAs

H. Ness, I. Leahy, A. Rice +3

The prospect of transforming a Dirac topological semimetal (TSM) into a Weyl TSM phase, following doping by magnetic impurities, is central to TSM applications. The magnetic field…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Structural stability, elemental ordering, and transport properties of layered ScTaN2

Baptiste Julien, Ian A. Leahy, Rebecca W. Smaha +4

Some ternary TM nitrides are predicted to adopt layered structures that make them interesting for thermoelectric conversion and quantum materials applications. Synthesis of TM tern…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Refining the Two-Band Model for Highly Compensated Semimetals Using Thermoelectric Coefficients

Ian Leahy, Andrew Treglia, Gang Cao +2

In studying compensated semimetals, the two-band model has proven extremely useful in capturing electrical conductivity under magnetic field, as a function of density and mobility…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Interplay of Quasi-Quantum Hall Effect and Coulomb Disorder in Semimetals

Ian A. Leahy, Anthony D. Rice, Jocienne N. Nelson +6

Low carrier densities in topological semimetals (TSMs) enable the exploration of novel magnetotransport in the quantum limit (QL). Recent findings consistent with 3D quasi-quantum…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 3 cited

Heat conduction in magnetic insulators via hybridization of acoustic phonons and spin-flip excitations

Christopher A. Pocs, Ian A. Leahy, Jie Xing +4

We present a comprehensive study on the longitudinal magneto-thermal transport in a paramagnetic effective spin-1/2 magnetic insulator CsYbSe, by introducing a minimal model re…

physics.app-ph2023

Spin injection across a III-V/chiral perovskite interface enabling spin accumulation at room temperature

Matthew P. Hautzinger, Xin Pan, Steven C. Hayden +14

Spin accumulation in semiconductor structures at room temperature and without magnetic fields is key to enable a broader range of opto-electronic functionality. Current efforts are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 10 cited

Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Thin Film LaWN

Rebecca W. Smaha, John S. Mangum, Ian A. Leahy +9

Nitride perovskites are an emerging class of materials that have been predicted to display a range of interesting physics and functional properties, but they are under-explored due…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Thin film TaAs: developing a platform for Weyl semimetal devices

Jocienne N. Nelson, Anthony D. Rice, Rafal Kurleto +12

MX monopnictide compounds (M=Nb,Ta, X = As,P) are prototypical three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that have been shown in bulk single crystal form to have potential for a wid…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 10 cited

Field-Induced Magnetic States in the Metallic Rare-Earth Layered Triangular Antiferromagnet TbAuAlGe

Ian A. Leahy, Keke Feng, Roei Dey +2

Magnetic frustration in metallic rare earth lanthanides () with -electrons is crucial for producing interesting magnetic phases with high magnetic anisotropy where intertwi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 17 cited

Direct link between disorder, mobility and magnetoresistance in topological semimetals

Jocienne N. Nelson, Anthony D. Rice, Chase Brooks +7

The extent to which disorder influences the properties of topological semimetals remains an open question and is relevant to both the understanding of topological states and the us…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 16 cited

Magnetic Ordering in GdAuAlGe and TbAuAlGe: layered compounds with triangular lanthanide nets

Keke Feng, Ian Andreas Leahy, Olatunde Oladehin +3

We report the synthesis of the entire AuAlGe ( = Y, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm) series and focus on the magnetic properties of GdAuAlGe and TbAu…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 40 cited

Giant thermal magnetoconductivity in CrCl and a general model for spin-phonon scattering

Christopher A. Pocs, Ian A. Leahy, Hao Zheng +6

Insulating quantum magnets lie at the forefront both of fundamental research into quantum matter and of technological exploitation in the increasingly applied field of spintronics.…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 94 cited

Non-saturating large magnetoresistance in semimetals

Ian A. Leahy, Yu-Ping Lin, Peter E. Siegfried +4

The rapidly expanding class of quantum materials known as {\emph{topological semimetals}} (TSM) display unique transport properties, including a striking dependence of resistivity…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 205 cited

Anomalous thermal conductivity and magnetic torque response in the honeycomb magnet -RuCl

Ian A. Leahy, Christopher A. Pocs, Peter E. Siegfried +5

We report on the unusual behavior of the in-plane thermal conductivity () and torque () response in the Kitaev-Heisenberg material -RuCl. shows a striking enhancem…

cond-mat.str-el2013★ 64 cited

Long-Range Magnetic Order in the 5d^2 Double Perovskite Ba2CaOsO6: Comparison with Spin-Disordered Ba2YReO6

C. M. Thompson, J. P. Carlo, R. Flacau +11

The B-site ordered double perovskite Ba2CaOsO6 was studied by d.c. magnetic susceptibility, powder neutron diffraction and muon spin relaxation methods. The lattice parameter is a…