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20172026
most citedOrder-Disorder Ferroelectric Transition of Strained SrTiO3

64 citations · 441 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of AgTaO3

Tobias Schwaigert, Joshua Maile, Olivia Peek +6

We report the first synthesis of single-crystal AgTaO3 thin films using molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). High-quality epitaxial AgTaO3 films were grown on both (001)- and (111)-orient…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Transport Evidence of Magnetic Polarization in the Altermagnetic Candidate MnTe

Younes Ghorbani, Nayana Devaraj, Joshua Maile +7

The ability to precisely control magnetic properties is central to the development of future spin-based electronics. In this work, we report the successful growth of epitaxial α-Mn…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Anisotropic Superconductivity with Enhanced Critical Field in Strained RuO2

Younes Ghorbani, Samuel Poage, Xuehsi Gao +9

The superconductivity in RuO2 emerges under strain. RuO2 is also an altermagnet candidate. The nature of superconductivity and its relation with neighboring orders, however, are no…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Above Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Epitaxially Strained KTaO3

Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Sankalpa Hazra +9

Epitaxial strain is a powerful means to engineer emergent phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate that KTaO3, a cubic perovskite in bulk form, can be epi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Resonant diffraction and photoemission inconsistent with altermagnetism in epitaxial RuO films

Benjamin Z. Gregory, Neha Wadehra, Shuyuan Zhang +15

Excitement about the magnetic and electronic properties of RuO is growing, fueled by reports of antiferromagnetism, strain-induced superconductivity, and its recent classificat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Large phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3

Mohamed Nawwar, Samuel Poage, Tobias Schwaigert +6

This study reports the observation of phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3 thin films, mediated by electron-phonon Umklapp scattering. Epitaxial films with d…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Electrostatic control of quantum phases in KTaO3-based planar constrictions

Jordan T. McCourt, Ethan G. Arnault, Merve Baksi +5

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed at complex oxide interfaces offer a unique platform to engineer quantum nanostructures. However, scalable fabrication of locally addre…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Superconductivity in tin telluride films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Antonio Gonzalez, Samuel J. Poage, Bernardo Langa +7

The intersection of superconductivity and ferroelectricity hosts a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we report on the observation of superconductivity in high-quality t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 8 cited

Spin-to-charge conversion at KTaO3(111) interfaces

Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Rui Sun, Andrew H. Comstock +3

Rashba spin-orbit coupling locks the spin with momentum of charge carriers at the broken inversion interfaces, which could generate a large spin galvanic response. Here, we demonst…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Violation of Pauli Limit at KTaO3(110) Interfaces

Samuel J. Poage, Xueshi Gao, Merve Baksi +7

The superconducting order parameter at the KTaO3 interfaces and its dependence on interface orientation remains a subject of debate. The superconductivity at these interfaces exhib…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 26 cited

Enhanced Critical Field of Superconductivity at an Oxide Interface

Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Samuel J. Poage, Salva Salmani-Rezaie +6

The nature of superconductivity and its interplay with strong spin-orbit coupling at the KTaO3(111) interfaces remains a subject of debate. To address this problem, we grew epitaxi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 26 cited

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of KTaO

Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Razaie, Matthew R. Barone +6

Strain-engineering is a powerful means to tune the polar, structural, and electronic instabilities of incipient ferroelectrics. KTaO3 is near a polar instability and shows anisotro…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 17 cited

Coexistence of superconductivity and weak anti-localization at KTaO3 (111) interfaces

Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Jesse Kanter, Mehdi Hatefipour +3

The intersection of two-dimensional superconductivity and topologically nontrivial states hosts a wide range of quantum phenomena, including Majorana fermions. Coexistence of topol…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 15 cited

Oxygen vacancy-induced anomalous Hall effect in a nominally non-magnetic oxide

Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Jesse Kanter, Mehdi Hatefipour +4

The anomalous Hall effect, a hallmark of broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling, is frequently observed in magnetically polarized systems. Its realization in non-mag…

physics.app-ph2021

Topological Quantum Matter to Topological Phase Conversion: Fundamentals, Materials, Physical Systems for Phase Conversions, and Device Applications

Md Mobarak Hossain Polash, Shahram Yalameha, Haihan Zhou +3

The spin-orbit coupling field, an atomic magnetic field inside a Kramer's system, or discrete symmetries can create a topological torus in the Brillouin Zone and provide protected…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 10 cited

Magneto-Elastic Coupling to Coherent Acoustic Phonon Modes in Ferrimagnetic Insulator GdTiO

D. J. Lovinger, E. Zoghlin, P. Kissin +8

In this work we investigate single crystal GdTiO, a promising candidate material for Floquet engineering and magnetic control, using ultrafast optical pump-probe reflectivity…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 64 cited

Order-Disorder Ferroelectric Transition of Strained SrTiO3

Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Kaveh Ahadi, William M. Strickland +1

SrTiO3 is an incipient ferroelectric that is believed to exhibit a prototype displacive, soft mode ferroelectric transition when subjected to mechanical stress or alloying. We use…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 7 cited

Correlating magnetic structure and magnetotransport in semimetal thin films of EuSmTiO

Zach Porter, Ryan F. Need, Kaveh Ahadi +6

We report on the evolution of the average and depth-dependent magnetic order in thin film samples of biaxially stressed and electron-doped EuTiO for samples across a doping ran…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 52 cited

Possible signatures of mixed-parity superconductivity in doped polar SrTiO3 films

Timo Schumann, Luca Galletti, Hanbyeol Jeong +4

Superconductors that possess both broken spatial inversion symmetry and spin-orbit interactions exhibit a mix of spin singlet and triplet pairing. Here, we report on measurements o…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 60 cited

Ferroelectric enhancement of superconductivity in compressively strained SrTiO films

Ryan Russell, Noah Ratcliff, Kaveh Ahadi +3

SrTiO is an incipient ferroelectric on the verge of a polar instability, which is avoided at low temperatures by quantum fluctuations. Within this unusual quantum paraelectric…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 19 cited

Electron nematic fluid in a strained Sr3Ru2O7 film

Patrick B. Marshall, Kaveh Ahadi, Honggyu Kim +1

Sr3Ru2O7 belongs to the family of layered strontium ruthenates and exhibits a range of unusual emergent properties, such as electron nematic behavior and metamagnetism. Here, we sh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Spontaneous Hall effects in the electron system at the SmTiO3/EuTiO3 interface

Kaveh Ahadi, Honggyu Kim, Susanne Stemmer

Magnetotransport and magnetism of epitaxial SmTiO3/EuTiO3 heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy are investigated. It is shown that the polar discontinuity at the interfa…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 60 cited

Evidence of a topological Hall effect in EuSmTiO

Kaveh Ahadi, Luca Galletti, Susanne Stemmer

We report on the observation of a possible topological Hall effect in thin films of the itinerant ferromagnet Eu1-xSmxTiO3. EuTiO3 and Eu0.955Sm0.045TiO3 films were grown by molecu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 9 cited

Response of the lattice across the filling-controlled Mott metal-insulator transition of a rare earth titanate

Honggyu Kim, Patrick B. Marshall, Kaveh Ahadi +3

The lattice response of a prototype Mott insulator, SmTiO3, to hole doping is investigated with atomic-scale spatial resolution. SmTiO3 films are doped with Sr on the Sm site with…