Publications

Under Review: 

1. Giant Kohn anomaly and chiral phonons in the charge density wave phase in NbSe2; Sinan “Susy” Sevim, Sougata Mardanya, Robert Markiewicz, Tugrul Hakioglu, Jouko Nieminen, Ville J. H¨ark¨onen, Cem Sanga, Cagliyan Kurdak, Arun Bansil, and Sugata Chowdhury; Submitted.

2. Layer-dependent topology and antiferromagnetic Chern insulating phase in UOTe;  Sougata Mardanya, Barun Ghosh, Mengke Liu, Christopher Broyles, Jennifer E.Hoffman, Sheng Ran, Arun Bansil, Su-Yang Xu, and Sugata Chowdhury; Submitted.

Published Articles:

3. Anisotropic Raman scattering and lattice orientation identification of 2M-WS2, Sabin Gautam, Sougata Mardanya, Joseph McBride, John Ackerman, Brian M Leonard, Sugata Chowdhury, and Jifa Tian, Nano Letts, 25, 3, 1076–1083, (2025)..

4. UOTe: Kondo-interacting topological antiferromagnet in a van der Waals lattice; Christopher Broyles, Sougata Mardanya, Mengke Liu, Junyeong Ahn, Thao Dinh, Gadeer Alqasseri, Jalen Garner, Zackary Rehfuss, Ken Guo, Jiahui Zhu, David Martinez, Du Li, Yiqing Hao, Huibo Cao, Matt Boswell, Weiwei Xie, Jeremy G. Philbric, Tai Kong, Li Yang, Philip Kim, Su-Yang Xu, Ashvin Vishwanath, Jennifer E. Hoffman, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Sugata Chowdhury, and Sheng Ran; Advanced Materials,  2414966, (2024).

5. Tunable superconductivity coexisting with the anomalous Hall effect in a transition 1 metal dichalcogenide; Md Shafayat Hossain1, Qi Zhang, David Graf, Mikel Iraola, Tobias Müller, Sougata Mardanya, Yi-Hsin Tu, Zhuangchai Lai, Martina O. Soldini, Yao Yao, Siyuan Li, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Brian Casas, Zi-Jia Cheng, Maksim Litskevich, Byunghoon Kim, Tyler A. Cochran, Xian P. Yang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sugata Chowdhury, Arun Bansil, Hua Zhang, Tay-Rong Chang, Mark Fischer, Titus Neupert, Luis Balicas, M. Zahid Hasan; Aceted Nature Communication; arXiv:2501.05980.

6. Skyrmions: A review on materials perspective for future electronic devices; Vineet Kumar Sharma,  Alana Okullo, Jalen Garner, Cheng Peng, Rajan Plumley, Adrian Feiguin, A. Bansil, Josh Turner, and Sugata Chowdhury, arXiv:2402.01503, (2024).

7. 3D Heisenberg universality in the Van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3, Rajan Plumley, Sougata Mardanya, Cheng Peng, Johannes Nokelainen, Tadesse Assefa, Lingjia, Shen, Nicholas Burdet, Zach Porter, Alexander Petsch, Aidan Israelski, Hongwei Chen, Jun Sik Lee, Sophie Morley, Sujoy Roy, Gilberto Fabbris, Elizabeth Blackburn, Adrian Feiguin, Arun Bansil, Wei-Sheng Lee, Aaron Lindenberg,  Sugata Chowdhury, Mike Dunne, and Joshua J. Turner, arXiv:2310.07948, npj Quantum Materials, 9 (1), 95, (2024).

8. On the Role of Defects in the Electronic Structure of MnBi2-xSbxTe4; D. Nevola, Kevin F. Garrity, N. Zaki, J.-Q. Yan, H. Miao, Sugata Chowdhury, and P. D. Johnson. arXiv:2206.14325; Under review Phys. Rev. B

9. Kitaev physics in the two-dimensional magnet NiPSe3, Cheng Peng, Sougata Mardanya, Alexander Petsch, Vineet Kumar Sharma, Shuyi Li, Chunjing Jia, Arun Bansil, Sugata Chowdhury, and Joshua J. Turner; arXiv:2403.09831;  Phys Rev Research 6 (3), 033206, (2024).

10. Topological Hall effect induced by chiral fluctuations in a kagome lattice;  Kyle W. Fruhling, Alenna Streeter, Sougata Mardanya, Xiaoping Wang, Priya Baral, Oksana Zaharko, Igor I. Mazin, Sugata Chowdhury, William D. Ratcliff, Fazel Tafti, arXiv:2401.17449, Phys Rev Mat, 8, 094411, (2024).

11. The Case for a Defect Genome Initiative, Qimin Yan, Swastik Kar, Sugata Chowdhury, and Arun Bansil, Advanced Materials, Adv. Mater., 2303098, (2023).

12. Unconventional superconducting pairing in a B20 Kramers Weyl semimetal; Sougata Mardanya, Mehdi Kargarian, Rahul Verma, Tay-Rong Chang, Sugata Chowdhury, Hsin Lin, Arun Bansil, Amit Agarwal, Bahadur Singh; arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05880, 2023. Phys. Rev. Mats. 8, L091801, (2024).

13. On Ultrafast X-ray Methods for Magnetism, Rajan Plumley, Sathya Chitturi, Cheng Peng, Tadesse Assefa, Nicholas Burdet, Lingjia Shen, Alex Reid, Georgi Dakovski, Matthew Seaberg, Frank O'Dowd, Sergio Montoya, Hongwei Chen, Alana Okullo, Sougata Mardanya, Stephen Kevan, Peter Fischer, Eric Fullerton, Sunil Sinha, William Colocho, Alberto Lutman, Franz-Joseph Decker, Sujoy Roy, Jun Fujioka, Yoshinori Tokura, Michael P. Minitti, Jeremy Johnson, Matthias Hoffmann, Michaela Amoo, Adrian Feiguin, Chuck Yoon, Jana Thayer, Yousseff Nashed, Chunjing Jia, Arun Bansil, Sugata Chowdhury, Aaron Lindenberg, Mike Dunne, Elizabeth Blackburn, Joshua Turner, Invited Paper arXiv:2305.07787 (2023), Advanced of Physics X, 9 (1), 2423935, (2024).

14. Capturing dynamical correlations using implicit neural representations, Sathya Chitturi, Zhurun Ji, Alexander Petsch, Cheng Peng, Zhantao Chen, Rajan Plumley, Mike Dunne, Sougata Mardanya, Sugata Chowdhury, Hongwei Chen, Arun Bansil, Adrian Feiguin, Alexander Kolesnikov, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Stephen Hayden, Daniel Ratner, Chunjing Jia, Youssef Nashed, Joshua Turner, Nature Comm. 14, 5852, (2023).

15. Machine learning enabled experimental design and parameter estimation for ultrafast spin dynamics, Zhantao Chen, Cheng Peng, Alexander N. Petsch, Sathya R. Chitturi, Alana Okullo, Sugata Chowdhury, Chun Hong Yoon, Joshua J. Turner, Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 4 045056., (2023).

16. Anisotropy of the magnetic and transport properties in EuZn2SAs2; Zhi-Cheng Wang, Emily Been, Jonathan Gaudet, Gadeer Matook A. Alqasseri, Kyle Fruhling, Xiaohan Yao, Uwe Stuhr, Qinqing Zhu, Zhi Ren, Yi Cui, Chunjing Jia, Brian Moritz, Sugata Chowdhury, Thomas Devereaux, and Fazel Tafti, Phys. Rev. B 105, 165122, (2022).

17. On the Role of Defects in the Electronic StructuAnisotropy of the magnetic and transport properties in EuZn2SAs2; Zhi-Cheng Wang, Emily Been, Jonathan Gaudet, Gadeer Matook A. Alqasseri, Kyle Fruhling, Xiaohan Yao, Uwe Stuhr, Qinqing Zhu, Zhi Ren, Yi Cui, Chunjing Jia, Brian Moritz, Sugata Chowdhury, Thomas Devereaux, and Fazel Tafti, Phys. Rev. B 105, 165122, (2022).

18. Testing the data framework for an AI algorithm in preparation for high data rate X-ray facilities, Hongwei Chen, Sathya R. Chitturi, Rajan Plumley, Lingjia Shen, Nathan C. Drucker, Nicolas Burdet, Cheng Peng, Sougata Mardanya, Daniel Ratner, Aashwin Mishra, Chun Hong Yoon, Sanghoon Song, Matthieu Chollet, Gilberto Fabbris, Mike Dunne, Silke Nelson, Mingda Li, Aaron Lindenberg, Chunjing Jia, Youssef Nashed, Arun Bansil, Sugata Chowdhury, Adrian E. Feiguin, Joshua J. Turner, Jana B. Thayer, 2022 4th Annual Workshop on Extreme-scale Experiment-in-the-Loop Computing (XLOOP), Dallas, TX, USA, 2022, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1109/XLOOP56614.2022.00006.

19. Computational Methods for Charge Density Waves in 2D Materials; Sugata Chowdhury, Albert F. Rigosi, Patrick M. Vora, Heather M. Hill, Angela R. Hight Walker, and Francesca Tavazza, Invited Review Paper, Nanomaterials 12, 504, (2022).

20. Tunning the Exotic Quantum Phase of MnA2X4 (A=Bi, Sb; X = Se, Te) by using Chemical substitution and External Magnetic Field, Sugata Chowdhury, Kevin Garrity, Francesca Tavazza, arXiv:2202.07061.

21. Tunable spin polarization and electronic structure of bottom-up synthesized MoSi2N4 materials, Rajibul Islam, Barun Ghosh, Carmine Autieri, Sugata Chowdhury, Arun Bansil, Amit Agarwal, Bahadur Singh; Physical Review B 104 (20), L201112 (2022).

22. Visualization of Experimental Raman Mode Behavior in Atomically Thin 2H-TaSe2 via Density Functional Theory; Sugata Chowdhury, Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Andrew Briggs, Helmuth Berger, David B. Newell, Angela R. Hight Walker, and Francesca Tavazza, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4 (2), 1810-1816, 2021.

23. Bonding characteristics of the interfacial buffer layer in epitaxial graphene via density functional theory; Alana Okullo, Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Angela R. Hight Walker, Francesca Tavazza, and Sugata Chowdhury, arXiv:2112.03711.

24. Effect of van der Waals Interactions on Quantum Phase Transitions and Phonon Properties of 2H-TaSe2; Sugata Chowdhury, Heather M. Hill, Albert F. Rigosi, Andrew Briggs, Helmuth Berger, David B. Newell, Angela R. Hight Walker, and Francesca Tavazza. Advanced Theory and Simulations, 2100329 (2022).

25. Topological surface states of MnBi2Te4 at finite temperatures and at domain walls. Kevin Garrity, Sugata Chowdhury, Francesca Tavazza. arXiv:2003.03439v1. Phys Rev Mat, 5 (2), 024207 (2021).

26. Quantum Materials for Energy Efficient Computing, Sugata Chowdhury, Houlong Zhuang, Shawn Coleman, Srikanth Patala, and Jacob Blair; JOM 2020

27. First Principles Study of Spin Transport in LaSrMn-CNT-LaSrMn Magnetic Tunnel Junctions. Khurshed shah, Muhammad Parvaiz, Sugata Chowdhury, Olasunbo Farinre, and Prabhakar Misra. Computational Condensed Matter, e00486, 2020.

28. Electronic transport in penta-graphene nanoribbon devices using carbon nanotube electrodes: A computational study. M. Shunaid Parvaiz, Khurshed A. Shah, G. N. Dar, Sugata Chowdhury, Olasunbo Farinre, Prabhakar Misra. Nnano: Phys. Chem. Math. 11 (2), 176, 2020.

29. Anomalous behavior of the Charge Density Wave phonons in 2H-TaS2; Jaydeep Joshi, Heather M. Hill, Sugata Chowdhury, Christos Malliakas, Francesca M. Tavazza, Utpal Chatterjee, Angela Hight Walker and Patrick M. Vora. Physical Review B. 99, 245144, 2019.

30. Phonon origin and lattice evolution in charge density wave states; Heather Hill, Sugata Chowdhury, J. Simpson, Francesca Tavazza, Angela Hight Walker. Physical Review B. 99, 174110, (2019).

31. Editor Choice and Journal Cover Page: Magnetic Skyrmions in Atomic Thin CrI3 Monolayer; Aroop K. Behera, Sugata Chowdhury, Suprem R. Das. Applied Physics Letters 114 (23), 232402, (2019). (Cover page and editor choice).

32. Strain Controlled Magnetic and Optical Properties of Monolayer 2H-TaSe2, Sugata Chowdhury, J. Simpson, T. L. Einstein, Angela R. Hight Walker. arXiv:1812.09829, Physical Review Materials 3, 084004, (2019).

33. TiO2 rutile’s bulk structural and electronic properties: A DFT study on the importance of Exchange correlations and Pseudopotential; Sugata Chowdhury et al. arxiv 1811.03783, (2019).

34. Prediction of Weyl semimetal, AFM topological insulator, nodal line semimetal, and Chern insulator phases in Bi2MnSe4; Sugata Chowdhury, Kevin Garrity, Francesca Tavazza. arxiv 1811.01863; npj Computational Materials, 5, 33, (2019).

35. Towards Efficient Optoelectronic Material Design using Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning; Kamal Choudhary, Q Zhang, ACE Reid, Sugata Chowdhury, et al. Nature Scientific Data 5, 180082, (2018).

36. Probing the dielectric response of the interfacial buffer layer in epitaxial graphene via optical spectroscopy. Heather Hill, Albert Rigosi, Sugata Chowdhury et al. Phys Rev B, 96, 195437, 2017.

37. Structural, Magnetic, and Electronic Properties of Self-assembled Bi2Se3/Bi2MnSe4 Multilayer Heterostructures. Joseph A Hagmann, Xiang Li, Sugata Chowdhury el. al. New Journal of Physics 19, 085002, 2017.

38. Theoretical investigation of the evolution of band structure and topological phase of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 under mechanical strain. Steve M. Young, Sugata Chowdhury, Eric J. Walter, Eugene. J. Mele, Charles L. Kane, and Andrew M. Rappe. Phys. Revs. B. 84, 085106, 2011.

39. Density functional theory study of the structure and energetics of negatively charged pyrroleoligomers. Yafei Dai, Sugata Chowdhury, Estela Blaisten-Barojas. Int. J. Quantum Chem. 111, 2295, 2011.

40. Mechanistic investigation of the hydrogenation of O2 by a transfer hydrogenation catalyst. Sugata Chowdhury, Fahmi Himo, Nino Russo, Emilia Sicilia, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 4178, 2010.

41. Theoretical Investigation of Reaction of Molecular Oxygen with a PdII- Hydride To Produce a PdII-Hydroperoxide: Acid Catalysis and Implications for Pd-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions. Sugata Chowdhury, Ivan Rivalta, Nino Russo, Emilia Sicilia, Journal Chemical Theory and Computation, 4, 1283 2008.

42. The recognition of a new pathway for the reaction of molecular oxygen with a Pd(II)-hydride to produce a Pd(II)-hydroperoxide. to produce a Pd(II)-hydroperoxide. Sugata Chowdhury, Ivan Rivalta, Nino Russo, Emilia Sicilia, Chem. Phys. Lett, 456, 41, 2008.

43. On the insertion mechanism of molecular oxygen into a Pd(II)-H bond. Something to add. Sugata Chowdhury, Ivan Rivalta, Nino Russo, Emilia Sicilia, Chem. Phys. Lett, 443, 183, 2007.

Book Chapter:

1. Recent Advances in Weyl Semimetal ( MnBi2Se4) and Axion Insulator ( MnBi2Te4); Sugata Chowdhury, Kevin Garrity, Francesca Lavazza; Spectroscopy and Characterization of Nanomaterials and Novel Materials: Experiments, Modeling, Simulations, and Applications edited by Prof. Prabhakar Misra, 2022.