List of publications - Quantum Materials Beamline¶

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2026¶

1. SJ Gomez Alvarado, JR Chamorro, D Rout, J Hielscher, Sarah Schwarz, Caeli Benyacko, MB Stone, V Ovidiu Garlea, AR Jackson, G Pokharel, R Gomez, BR Ortiz, Suchismita Sarker, L Kautzsch, LC Gallington, R Seshadri, Stephen D WilsonInterleaved bond frustration in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet. Nature Materials 25, 65–72 (2026)

2. Spieker, R.J., Spaić, M., Khayr, I., He, X., Zhai, D., Anderson, Z.W., Bielinski, N., Ye, F., Liu, Y., Chi, S. and Sarker, S.. Pervasive symmetry-lowering nanoscale structural fluctuations in the cuprate La 2− x Sr x Cu O 4. Physical Review B, 113(1), p.014101. (2026)

3. Suceava, A., Hazra, S., Ross, A., Philippi, I.R., Sotir, D., Brower, B., Ding, L., Zhu, Y., Zhang, Z., Sarkar, H. and Sarker, S, Colossal Cryogenic Electro‐Optic Response Through Metastability in Strained BaTiO3 Thin Films. Advanced Materials, 38(3), p.e07564. (2026)

2025¶

1. 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).

2. 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).

3. 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)

4. 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).

5. 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).

6. 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)

7. 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).

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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).

12. 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)

13. 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

14. Matthew S Cook, Brenden R Ortiz, Pyeongjae Park, Karolina Gornicka, Suchismita Sarker, Jiaqiang Yan, Michael A McGuire, Unconventional magnetotransport and antiferromagnetic order in Eu2InTe5, Phys. Rev. Materials 9, 124410, 2025

15. 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., Colossal Cryogenic Electro‐Optic Response Through Metastability in Strained BaTiO3 Thin Films. Advanced Materials, p.e0756, 2025

2024¶

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

2023¶

1. Cheng Chen, Weichen Tang, Xiang Chen, Zhibo Kang, Shuhan Ding, Kirsty Scott, Siqi Wang et al. "Anomalous excitonic phase diagram in band-gap-tuned Ta2Ni (Se, S) 5." Nature Communications 14, no. 1: 7512 (2023)

2. Pokharel, Ganesh, Brenden R. Ortiz, Linus Kautzsch, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, Krishnanand Mallayya, Guang Wu, Eun-Ah Kim, Jacob PC Ruff, Suchismita Sarker, and Stephen D. Wilson. "Frustrated charge order and cooperative distortions in ScV 6 Sn 6." Physical Review Materials 7, no. 10: 104201 (2023)

3. Ortiz, Brenden R., Ganesh Pokharel, Malia Gundayao, Hong Li, Farnaz Kaboudvand, Linus Kautzsch, Suchismita Sarker et al. "Erratum: YbV 3 Sb 4 and EuV 3 Sb 4 vanadium-based kagome metals with Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ zigzag chains [Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 064201 (2023)]." Physical Review Materials 7, no. 9 099901 (2023)

4. Kautzsch, Linus, Yuzki M. Oey, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Brenden R. Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel, Ram Seshadri et al. "Incommensurate charge-stripe correlations in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5− x Sn x." npj Quantum Materials 8, no. 1 37 (2023)

5. Xiang Chen, Wei Tian, Yu He, Hongrui Zhang, Tyler L. Werner, Saul Lapidus, Jacob PC Ruff, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Robert J. Birgeneau. "Thermal cycling induced alteration of the stacking order and spin-flip in the room temperature van der Waals magnet Fe 5 GeTe 2." Physical Review Materials 7, no. 4 044411 (2023)

6. 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 AV 3 Sb 5 (A= K, Rb, and Cs) through charge density wave order." Physical Review Materials 7, no. 2 024806 (2023)

7. Stephen Wilson, Linus Kautzsch, Yuzki Oey, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Brenden Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel et al. "Incommensurate charge-stripe correlations in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5-xSnx." (2023)

8. Ramette, Caleb, Lucas Pressley, Maxim Avdeev, Minseong Lee, Satya Kushwaha, Matthew Krogstad, Suchismita Sarker et al. "Floating zone crystal growth, structure, and properties of a cubic Li 5.5 La 3 Nb 1.5 Zr 0.5 O 12 garnet-type lithium-ion conductor." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 11, no. 40 21754-21766 (2023)

9. Shao, Ziming, Noah Schnitzer, Jacob Ruf, Oleg Yu Gorobtsov, Cheng Dai, Berit H. Goodge, Tiannan Yang et al. "Real-space imaging of periodic nanotextures in thin films via phasing of diffraction data." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 28 e2303312120 (2023)

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 TbV 6 Sn 6." Physical Review Materials 6, no. 10 104202(2022)

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)

3. Linus Kautzsch, Yuzki M Oey, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Brenden R Ortiz, Ram Seshadri, Jacob Ruff, Ziqiang Wang, Ilija Zeljkovic, and Stephen D Wilson. “Incommensurate charge-stripe correlations in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5−xSnx” arXiv:2207.10608 (2022)

4. 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)

5. Ganesh Pokharel, Brenden Ortiz, Paul Sarte, Linus Kautzsch, Guang Wu, Jacob Ruff, and Stephen D Wilson. “Highly anisotropic magnetism in the vanadium-based kagome metal TbV6Sn6.” arXiv:2205.15559 (2022)

6. 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)

7. 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).

8. 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).

9. 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)

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)

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).

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 545-549 (2020)

4. 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 1-6 (2021):

5. 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 041112 (2020)

6. 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, 1-5 (2021)

7. Ghale, Purnima. "Energy of non-relativistic many-particle quantum states from non-commuting Coulomb field and momentum operators. (2021)

8. 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 042042 (2020)

9. Thedford, R. Paxton, Peter A. Beaucage, Ethan M. Susca, Corson A. Chao, Katja C. Nowack, Robert B. Van Dover, Sol M. Gruner, and Ulrich Wiesner. "Superconducting Quantum Metamaterials from High Pressure Melt Infiltration of Metals into Block Copolymer Double Gyroid Derived Ceramic Templates." Advanced Functional Materials 31, no. 23 2100469 (2021)

10. 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 224420 (2021)

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 124407 (2020)

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 T11002 (2020)

3. Su-Yang Xu,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 545-549 (2020)

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 UPt 2 Si 2." Physical Review B 102, no. 4 041112 (2020)

5. Zhenzhong Shi, S. J. Kuhn, F. Flicker, Toni Helm, J. Lee, William Steinhardt, Sachith Dissanayake et al. "Incommensurate two-dimensional checkerboard charge density wave in the low-dimensional superconductor Ta 4 Pd 3 Te 16." Physical Review Research 2, no. 4 042042 (2020)

Ph.D Thesis - Quantum Materials Beamline¶

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2025¶

1. Yifan Su, Ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials probed by time-and-momentum-resolved techniques, MIT, 2025

2024¶

1. Subin Kim, Structural and Magnetic Properties of α-RuCl3 Single Crystal, 2024

2. Farnaz Kaboudvand, Electronic instability in the kagome materials, 2024

3. Benhamin Zager, Uncovering Novel Phase in Complex Magnetic Materials Using Resonant X-ray Scattering, Department of Physics, Brown University, 2024

2023¶

1. CT Parzyck, Synthesis, Characterization, and Scattering Measurements of the Perovskite and Infinite Layer Nickelates, 2023

2. S Sharma, Study of unconventional superconductors and breathing pyrochlore magnets, 2023

2022¶

1. Amani Jayakody, Cubic Perovskite Materials with Quantum Properties: Effect of Strain Quantum Phase Transition, and Electronic/Magnetic Phase Separation, 2022

2. Yuzki Mizutani Oey,Structural Effects and Compositional Tuning in Magnetocalorics and Kagome Superconductors,2022