WIP - QM2 Publications

Qm2_publication
  1. S. Hazra, T. Schwaigert, A. Ross, H. Lu, U. Saha, V. Trinquet, B. Akkopru‐Akgun, B. Z Gregory, A. Mangu, S. Sarker, T. Kuznetsova, S. Sarker, X. Li, M. R Barone, X. Xu, J. W Freeland, R. Engel‐Herbert, A. M Lindenberg, A. Singer, S. Trolier‐McKinstry, D. A Muller, G‐M Rignanese, S. Salmani‐Rezaie, V. A Stoica, A. Gruverman, L‐Qing Chen, D. G. Schlom, V. Gopalan, "Colossal Strain Tuning of Ferroelectric Transitions in KNbO3 Thin Films." Advanced Materials 36, 52, 2408664 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202408664
  2. S. Li, D. Chen, B. Li, H. Yan, B. J Lawrie, B. Choi, D. Rhee, Y. Li, H. Zhao, L. Chen, A. Pattammattel, S. Sarker, D. Jariwala, P. Guo, "Spontaneous Formation of Single-Crystalline Spherulites in a Chiral 2D Hybrid Perovskite." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c15471
  3. J. J. Huang, Y. Yang, D. Weinstock, C. R Bundschu, Q. Li, S. Sarker, J. PC Ruff, T.A. Arias, H. D Abruña, A. Singer, "Multimodal in situ X-ray mechanistic studies of a bimetallic oxide electrocatalyst in alkaline media." Nature Catalysis 1-10 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-025-01289-7
  4. Zhong-Zhen Luo, Hengdi Zhao, Weizhao Cai, Shima Shahabfar, Juncen Li, Songting Cai, Jameson Berg et al. "Charge Density Wave and Superconductivity in BaSbTe2S Heterolayer Crystal with 2D Te Square Nets." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c16505
  5. Dongliang Gong, Junyi Yang, Shu Zhang, Shashi Pandey, Dapeng Cui, Jacob PC Ruff, Lukas Horak et al. "Large asymmetric anomalous Nernst effect in the antiferromagnet SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3." Nature Communications 16, no. 1: 2888 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58020-0
  6. S Kim, E Horsley, CS Nelson, JPC Ruff, YJ Kim, Structural transition and magnetic anisotropy in α-RuCl3, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 37, no. 21, 215601 (2025).  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L140101
  7. A. de la Torre A, Q. Wang, Y. Masoumi, B. Campbell, J.V. Riffle, D. Balasundaram, P.M. Vora, J.P. Ruff, G.A. Fiete, S. M. Hollen SM, K.W. Plumb, Dynamic phase transition in 1T-TaS2 via a thermal quench. Nature Physics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02938-1
  8. Gupta NK, Gong R, Wu Y, Kang M, Parzyck CT, Gregory BZ, Costa N, Sutarto R, Sarker S, Singer A, Schlom DG. Anisotropic spin stripe domains in bilayer La3Ni2O7. Nature Communications, 16;16(1):6560 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61653-w
  9. Kocoj, Conrad A., Xinran Xie, Hongyu Jiang, Shunran Li, Suchismita Sarker, Ankun Yang, and Peijun Guo. "Ultrafast Plasmon Dynamics of Low-Loss Sodium Metasurfaces." ACS nano (2025).  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5c04946.
  10. B. R. Ortiz, H. Zhang, K. Górnicka, M. S. Cook, S. Sarker, S. Okamoto, and J. Yan, Isolated spin ladders in Ln2Ti9Sb11 (Ln:La–Nd) metals, Physical Review Materials, 9, 086203 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/4jgr-8f3f
  11. G. Pokharel, C. Zhang, E. Redekop, B. R. Ortiz, A. N. Salinas, S. Schwarz, S. J Gomez Alvarado, S. Sarker, A. F Young, S. D Wilson, 2025. Evolution of charge correlations in the hole-doped kagome superconductor CsV 3− x Ti x Sb 5. Physical Review Materials, 9(9), p.094805. https://doi.org/10.1103/gv69-1lyj
  12. Lv BQ, Su Y, Zong A, Liu Q, Wu D, Yuan NF, Nie Z, Li J, Sarker S, Meng S, Ruff JP. Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves. Nature Materials. 2025 Oct 1:1-7.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02360-1
  13. Suceava, A., Hazra, S., Ross, A., Philippi, I.R., Sotir, D., Brower, B., Ding, L., Zhu, Y., Zhang, Z., Sarkar, H. and Sarker, S., 2025. Colossal Cryogenic Electro‐Optic Response Through Metastability in Strained BaTiO3 Thin Films. Advanced Materials, p.e07564. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202507564

2024

  1. S. Li, X. Xu, C.A. Kocoj, C. Zhou, Y. Li, D. Chen, J.A. Bennett, S. Liu, L. Quan, S. Sarker, and Liu, M.” Large exchange-driven intrinsic circular dichroism of a chiral 2D hybrid perovskite”. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2573 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46851-2
  2. Wu, Han, Lei Chen, Paul Malinowski, Bo Gyu Jang, Qinwen Deng, Kirsty Scott, Jianwei Huang et al. "Reversible non-volatile electronic switching in a near-room-temperature van der Waals ferromagnet." Nature Communications 15, no. 1 2739 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46862-z
  3. Subin Kim, Ezekiel Horsley, Jacob PC Ruff, Beatriz D Moreno, Young-June Kim, "Structural transition and magnetic anisotropy in α-RuCl 3." Physical Review B 109, no. 14 L140101 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L140101
  4. S B Lee, J. S Van Buskirk, F. Katmer, S. Sarker, D. C Fredrickson, L. M Schoop, “Polymorphism within the Quasi-One-Dimensional Au2MP2 (M= Tl, Pb, Pb/Bi, and Bi) Series”, Chemistry of Materials, 36(17), 8217-8228 (2024) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00784
  5. Haozhe Wang, Alberto de la Torre, Joseph T Race, Qiaochu Wang, Jacob PC Ruff, Patrick M Woodward, Kemp W Plumb, David Walker, Weiwei Xie,Pseudosymmetry in Tetragonal Perovskite SrIrO3 Synthesized under High Pressure." ACS Applied Electronic Materials 6, no. 9 (2024): 6820-6825 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaelm.4c01214
  6. J. Plumb, A. C. Salinas, K. Mallayya, E. Kisiel, F. B Carneiro, R. Gomez, G. Pokharel, Eun-Ah Kim, S. Sarker, Z. Islam, S. Daly, S. D. Wilson, "Phase-separated charge order and twinning across length scales in CsV3Sb5." Physical Review Materials 8,9 093601 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.093601
  7. S. Gomez, G. Pokharel, B. R. Ortiz, J. AM Paddison, S. Sarker, J. P. C. Ruff, and S. D. Wilson. "Frustrated Ising charge correlations in the kagome metal ScV6Sn6." Physical Review B, 110(14), L140304 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.L140304
  8. N. Derimow, J T Benzing, H. Joress, A. McDannald, P. Lu, F. W DelRio, N. Moser, M. J Connolly, A. Saville, O. L Kafka, C. Beamer, R. Fishel, S. Sarker, C. Hadley, N. Hrabe, “Microstructure and mechanical properties of laser powder bed fusion Ti-6Al-4V after HIP treatments with varied temperatures and cooling rates.” Materials & Design, 113388 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113388
  9. R. Singha, F, Yuan, S.B. Lee, G.V. Villalpando, G. Cheng, B. Singh, S. Sarker, N. Yao, K.S. Burch, and L.M. Schoop, “Anisotropic and High‐Mobility Electronic Transport in a Quasi 2D Antiferromagnet NdSb2”. Advanced Functional Materials, 34(10), p.2308733 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202308733
  10. Chandrashekhar P.Savant, Anita Verma, Thai-Son Nguyen, Len van Deurzen, Yu-Hsin Chen, Zhiren He, Salva S. Rezaie, S. Sarker, J.Ruff, "Self-activated epitaxial growth of ScN films from molecular nitrogen at low temperatures." APL Materials 12, 11 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0222995
  11. B. R. Ortiz, W. R Meier, G. Pokharel, J. Chamorro, F. Yang, S. Mozaffari, A. Thaler, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, H. Zhang, D. S. Parker, G. D. Samolyuk, J. AM Paddison, J. Yan, F. Ye, S. Sarker, S. D. Wilson, H. Miao, D. Mandrus, M. A. McGuire, "Stability Frontiers in the AM 6 X 6 Kagome Metals: The Ln Nb6Sn6 (Ln: Ce–Lu, Y) Family and Density-Wave Transition in LuNb6Sn6." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024) https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c16347

2023

  1. Linus Kautzsch, Yuzki M Oey, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Brenden R Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel, Ram Seshadri, Jacob Ruff, Terawit Kongruengkit, John W Harter, Ziqiang Wang, Ilija Zeljkovic, Stephen D Wilson. “Incommensurate charge-stripe correlations in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5−xSnx”. npj Quantum Materials 8 (1), 37 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-023-00570-x
  2. Ganesh Pokharel, Brenden R Ortiz, Linus Kautzsch, SJ Alvarado, Krishnanand Mallayya, Guang Wu, Eun-Ah Kim, Jacob PC Ruff, Suchismita Sarker, Stephen D Wilson. “Frustrated charge order and cooperative distortions in ScV6Sn6.” arXiv:2307.11843 (2023) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.11843
  3. Jason J Huang, Yao Yang, Daniel Weinstock, Colin R Bundschu, Jacob PC Ruff, Tomás A Arias, Héctor D Abruña, Andrej Singer. “Multimodal Operando X-ray Mechanistic Studies of a Bimetallic Oxide Electrocatalyst in Alkaline Media”. arXiv:2307.05912 (2023) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.05912
  4. Ziming Shao, Noah Schnitzer, Jacob Ruf, Oleg Yu Gorobtsov, Cheng Dai, Berit H Goodge, Tiannan Yang, Hari Nair, Vlad A Stoica, John W Freeland, Jacob P Ruff, Long-Qing Chen, Darrell G Schlom, Kyle M Shen, Lena F Kourkoutis, Andrej Singer. “Real-space imaging of periodic nanotextures in thin films via phasing of diffraction data”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (28), e2303312120 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2303312120
  5. Han Wu, Lei Chen, Paul Malinowski, Jianwei Huang, Qinwen Deng, Kirsty Scott, Bo Gyu Jang, Jacob PC Ruff, Yu He, Xiang Chen, Chaowei Hu, Ziqin Yue, Ji Seop Oh, Xiaokun Teng, Yucheng Guo, Mason Klemm, Chuqiao Shi, Yue Shi, Chandan Setty, Tyler Werner, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, T Yilmaz, Elio Vescovo, Sung-Kwan Mo, Alexei Fedorov, Jonathan Denlinger, Yaofeng Xie, Bin Gao, Junichiro Kono, Pengcheng Dai, Yimo Han, Xiaodong Xu, Robert J Birgeneau, Jian-Xin Zhu, Eduardo H Neto, Liang Wu, Jiun-Haw Chu, Qimiao Si, Ming Yi. “Reversible Non-Volatile Electronic Switching in a Near Room Temperature van der Waals Ferromagnet”. arXiv (2023) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.03154
  6. Brenden R Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel, Malia Gundayao, Hong Li, Farnaz Kaboudvand, Linus Kautzsch, Suchismita Sarker, Jacob PC Ruff, Tom Hogan, Steven J Gomez Alvarado, Paul M Sarte, Guang Wu, Tara Braden, Ram Seshadri, Eric S Toberer, Ilija Zeljkovic, Stephen D Wilson. “YbV3Sb4 and EuV3Sb4 vanadium-based kagome metals with Yb2+ and Eu2+ zigzag chains”. Physical Review Materials 7 (6), 064201 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.064201
  7. Xiang Chen, Wei Tian, Yu He, Hongrui Zhang, Tyler L Werner, Saul Lapidus, Jacob PC Ruff, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Robert J Birgeneau. “Thermal cycling induced alteration of the stacking order and spin-flip in the room temperature van der Waals magnet Fe5GeTe2”. Physical Review Materials 7 (4), 044411 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.044411
  8. Linus Kautzsch, Brenden R Ortiz, Krishnanand Mallayya, Jayden Plumb, Ganesh Pokharel, Jacob PC Ruff, Zahirul Islam, Eun-Ah Kim, Ram Seshadri, Stephen D Wilson. “Structural evolution of the kagome superconductors AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, and Cs) through charge density wave order”. Physical Review Materials 7 (2), 024806 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.024806

2022

  1. Ganesh Pokharel, Brenden Ortiz, Juan Chamorro, Paul Sarte, Linus Kautzsch, Guang Wu, Jacob Ruff, Stephen D Wilson. “Highly anisotropic magnetism in the vanadium-based kagome metal TbV6Sn6”. Physical Review Materials 6 (10), 104202 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.104202
  2. Tsung-Han Yang, S Kawamoto, Tomoya Higo, SuYin Grass Wang, MB Stone, Joerg Neuefeind, Jacob PC Ruff, AM Milinda Abeykoon, Yu-Sheng Chen, S Nakatsuji, and KW Plumb. "Bond ordering and molecular spin-orbital fluctuations in the cluster Mott insulator GaTa4Se8." Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033123 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033123
  3. Jordan Venderley, Krishnanand Mallayya, Michael Matty, Matthew Krogstad, Jacob Ruff, Geoff Pleiss, Varsha Kishore, David Mandrus, Daniel Phelan, Lekhanath Poudel, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Kilian Weinberger, Puspa Upreti, Michael Norman, Stephan Rosenkranz, Raymond Osborn, and Eun-Ah Kim. “Harnessing interpretable and unsupervised machine learning to address big data from modern X-ray diffraction.” PNAS 119, 24, e2109665119 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109665119
  4. Cheng Chen, Xiang Chen, Weichen Tang, Zhenglu Li, Siqi Wang, Shuhan Ding, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Jacob PC Ruff, Steven G Louie, Robert Birgeneau, Yulin Chen, Yao Wang, and Yu He. “Lattice fluctuation induced pseudogap in quasi-one-dimensional Ta2NiSe5.” arXiv:2203.06817 (2022) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.06817
  5. Jason J Huang, Daniel Weinstock, Hayley Hirsh, Ryan Bouck, Minghao Zhang, Oleg Yu Gorobtsov, Malia Okamura, Ross Harder, Wonsuk Cha, Jacob PC Ruff, Y Shirley Meng, and Andrej Singer. “Disorder Dynamics in Battery Nanoparticles During Phase Transitions Revealed by Operando Single‐Particle Diffraction.” Adv. Energy Mater. 12, 2103521 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202103521
  6. Lv, B. Q., Alfred Zong, D. Wu, A. V. Rozhkov, Boris V. Fine, Su-Di Chen, Makoto Hashimoto et al. "Unconventional hysteretic transition in a charge density wave." Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 3, 036401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.036401
  7. S. Sharma, M. Pocrnic, B. N. Richtik, C. R. Wiebe, J. Beare, J. Gautreau, J. P. Clancy, J. P. C. Ruff, M. Pula, Q. Chen, S. Yoon, Y. Cai, and G. M. Luke. “Synthesis and physical and magnetic properties of CuAlCr4S8: A Cr-based breathing pyrochlore.” Phys. Rev. B 106, 024407 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.024407

2021

  1. Daniel Weinstock, Hayley S Hirsh, Oleg Yu Gorobtsov, Minghao Zhang, Jason Huang, Ryan Bouck, Jacob PC Ruff, Y Shirley Meng, and Andrej Singer. “Structure-selective operando x-ray spectroscopy.” ACS Energy Letters 7, 1, 261–266 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02371
  2. Brenden R Ortiz, Samuel ML Teicher, Linus Kautzsch, Paul M Sarte, Noah Ratcliff, John Harter, Jacob PC Ruff, Ram Seshadri, and Stephen D Wilson. "Fermi surface mapping and the nature of charge density wave order in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5." Phys. Rev. X 11, 041030 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041030
  3. Antonio, Daniel J., Joel T. Weiss, Katherine S. Shanks, Jacob PC Ruff, Marcelo Jaime, Andres Saul, Thomas Swinburne et al. "Piezomagnetic switching and complex phase equilibria in uranium dioxide." Communications Materials 2, no. 1 (2021): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00121-6
  4. Jiang, Yu-Xiao, Jia-Xin Yin, M. Michael Denner, Nana Shumiya, Brenden R. Ortiz, Gang Xu, Zurab Guguchia et al. "Unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV3Sb5." Nature Materials (2021): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01034-y
  5. Ghale, Purnima. "Energy of non-relativistic many-particle quantum states from non-commuting Coulomb field and momentum operators." https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01656 (2021).
  6. Chen, Xiang, Yu He, Shan Wu, Yu Song, Dongsheng Yuan, Edith Bourret-Courchesne, Jacob PC Ruff, Zahirul Islam, Alex Frano, and Robert J. Birgeneau. "Structural and magnetic transitions in the planar antiferromagnet Ba4Ir3O10." Physical Review B 103, no. 22 (2021): 224420. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.224420

2020

  1. Reig-i-Plessis, D., T. A. Johnson, K. Lu, Q. Chen, J. P. C. Ruff, M. H. Upton, T. J. Williams et al. "Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of nearly ideal Jeff= 1/2 iridium halides." Physical Review Materials 4, no. 12 (2020): 124407. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.124407
  2. Gadkari, D., K. S. Shanks, H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate, J. Thom-Levy, and S. M. Gruner. "Characterization of an architecture for front-end pixel binning in an integrating pixel array detector." Journal of Instrumentation 15, no. 11 (2020): T11002. http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/11/T11002
  3. Xu, Su-Yang, Qiong Ma, Yang Gao, Anshul Kogar, Alfred Zong, Andrés M. Mier Valdivia, Thao H. Dinh et al. "Spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order in a transition-metal dichalcogenide." Nature 578, no. 7796 (2020): 545-549. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2011-8
  4. Lee, Jooseop, Karel Prokeš, Sohee Park, Igor Zaliznyak, Sachith Dissanayake, Masaaki Matsuda, Matthias Frontzek et al. "Charge density wave with anomalous temperature dependence in UPt2Si2." Physical Review B 102, no. 4 (2020): 041112. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.041112
  5. Shi, Zhenzhong, S. J. Kuhn, F. Flicker, T. Helm, J. Lee, William Steinhardt, Sachith Dissanayake et al. "Incommensurate two-dimensional checkerboard charge density wave in the low-dimensional superconductor Ta4Pd3Te16." Physical Review Research 2, no. 4 (2020): 042042. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.042042

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