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Santanu Pakhira, Yongbin Li, Asish K. Kundu, Farhan Islam, Zhenhua Ning, Volodymyr Smetana, Anja-Verena

Mudring, Thomas Heitmann, Elio Vescovo, Liqin Ke, David Vaknin, and David C. Johnston

Flat-Band Tuning and Emergent Itinerant

Magnetism in Sr(Co_1−xPd_x)₂As₂

PNAS

Accepted

2025

SCI

9.1

Santanu Pakhira, Liran Wang, N. S. Sangeetha, A. Sapkota, R. T. Thomas, A Kreyssig, F. Hardy, A. E. Böhmer, C. Meingast, and D. C. Johnston

Magnetoelastic-coupling-assisted first-order antiferromagnetic transitions in the corrugated honeycomb-lattice compounds (Ca,Sr)Mn₂P₂

Physical Review B

112, 104443

2025

SCI

3.7

Soumya Bhowmik, Santanu Pakhira, Renu Choudhary, Ravi Kumar, Rajashri Urkude, Biplab Ghosh, D Bhattacharyya, Maxim Avdeev, and Chandan Mazumdar

Al₂MnCu: A magnetically ordered member of the heusler alloy family despite having a valence electron count of 24

Physical Review B

111, 174417

2025

SCI

3.7

Sudip Chakraborty, Shuvankar Gupta, Santanu   Pakhira, and   Chandan   Mazumdar

Detection of magnetic skyrmion-like   feature   in   the   magnetocaloric   properties of Gd₂Ir_0.97Si_2.97

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

1014, 178698

2025

SCI

6.3

Suvayan Saha, Sanjib Banik, Apurba Dutta, Tapas Paramanik, Santanu Pakhira, Suman Dey, Sudipta Bandyopadhyay, Chandan Mazumdar, and I Das

Role of Co/Mn interaction in developing griffiths phase with reducing particle size in La₂CoMnO₆

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

17, 20060

2025

SCI

8.5

Aryan Keshri, Sourav Chowdhury, Naveen Goyal, Wasim Akram, Santanu Pakhira, Peter Nagel, Stefan Schuppler, Sadanand Powar, Mohit Tanwani, Pushpendra Gupta, S. Das

Orbital and Spin Reconstruction by Interface Symmetry Engineering in Oxide Superlattices

Small

21, 2500089

2025

SCI

12.1

Nour Maraytta, Peter Nagel, F. Ghorbani, Amir Ghiami, Santanu Pakhira, Mai Ye, Björn Wehinger, Federico Abbruciati, Gaston Garbarino, Matthieu Le Tacon, et al

Unveiling excitonic insulator signatures in ta nise through structural and orbital probes

Scientific Reports (Nature publishing)

15, 35019

2025

SCI

4.3

Farhan Islam, D. Schlagel, Yongbin Lee, Santanu Pakhira, Daniel M Pajerowski, David C. Johnston, Liqin Ke, David Vaknin, and Robert J McQueeney

Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetic Dimers in Topological Insulators

Physical Review B

(Editors’ Suggestion)

110, 014408

2024

SCI

3.7

T. Han, Santanu Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha, S. X. M. Riberolles, T. W. Heitmann, Y. Wu, D. C. Johnston, R. J. McQueeney, and B. G. Ueland

Europium c-axis ferromagnetism in Eu(Co1−xNix)2−yAs2: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study

Physical Review B

109, 174428

2024

SCI

3.7

A. K. Kundu, X. Huang, E. Seewald, E. Ritz, Santanu Pakhira, S. Zhang, D. Sun, S. Turkel, S. Shabani, T. Yilmaz, E. Vescovo, Cory R. Dean, D. C. Johnston, T. Valla, T. Birol, D. N. Basov, Rafael M. Fernandes and Abhay

N. Pasupathy

Low-Energy Electronic Structure in the Unconventional Charge-Ordered State of ScV₆Sn₆

Nature Communications

15, 5008

2024

SCI

17.2

S. Chakraborty, S. Gupta, Santanu Pakhira, S. Dan, A. Biswas, Y.

Mudryk, and Chandan Mazumdar

Large adiabatic temperature change and magnetic frustration in triangular lattice antiferromagnet Dy₂IrSi₃

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

981, 173652

2024

SCI

6.371

Santanu Pakhira, A. K Kundu, F. Islam, M.A. Tanatar, T. Roy, T.

Heitmann, T. Yilmaz, E. Vescovo, M. Tsujikawa, M. Shirai, R. Prozorov,

D. Vaknin, and David C. Johnston

Anisotropic magnetism and electronic structure of trigonal EuAl₂Ge₂ single crystals

Physical Review B

107, 134439

2023

SCI

3.7

 Santanu Pakhira and D. C. Johnston

Low-field magnetic anomalies in single crystals of the A-type square-lattice antiferromagnet EuGa₄

Physical Review B

107, 024421

2023

SCI

3.7

M. Kundu, Santanu Pakhira, R. Choudhary, S. Gupta, S. Chakraborty,

N. Lakshminarasimhan, R Ranganathan, Duane D Johnson, and Chandan Mazumdar

Magnetic frustration driven by conduction carrier blocking in Nd₂Co_0.85Si_2.88

Physical Review B

107, 094421

2023

SCI

3.7

S. Gupta, S. Chakraborty, Santanu Pakhira, A. Biswas, Y. Mudryk,

A. Kumar, B. Mukherjee, G. S Okram, Amitabh Das, Vitalij K Pecharsky,

and Chandan Mazumdar

Experimental observation of spin glass state in the highly disordered quaternary Heusler alloy FeRuMnGa

Physical Review B

107, 184408

2023

SCI

3.7

F. Islam, T. V Trevisan, T Heitmann, Santanu Pakhira, S. X. M.

Riberolles, N. S. Sangeetha, David C Johnston, Peter P Orth, and David Vaknin

Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent potts nematicity in CaMn₂P₂

Physical Review B

107, 054425

2023

SCI

3.7

S. Gupta, S. Chakraborty, V. Bhasin, Santanu Pakhira, S. Dan,

C. Barreteau, Jean-Claude Crivello, SN Jha, Maxim Avdeev, Jean Marc Greneche,

D. Bhattacharyya, E. Alleno, and Chandan Mazumdar

High spin-polarization in a disordered novel quaternary heusler alloy FeMnVGa

Physical Review B

108, 045137

2023

SCI

3.7

S. Gupta, S. Chakraborty, V. Bhasin, Santanu Pakhira, A. Biswas,

Y. Mudryk, A. Kumar, C. Barreteau, Jean-Claude Crivello, A. Das,

S. N. Jha, D. Bhattacharyya, Vitalij K Pecharsky, Eric Alleno, and Chandan Mazumdar,

4d-element induced improvement of structural disorder and development of weakly

re-entrant spin-glass behaviour in NiRuMnSn

Physical Review B

108, 054405

2023

SCI

3.7

S. Chakraborty, S. Gupta, Santanu Pakhira, A. Biswas, Y. Mudryk,

R. Choudhary, A. Kumar, A. Das, and Chandan Mazumdar

Origin of magnetic ordering in half-heusler RuMnGa

Physical Review B

108, 054430

2023

SCI

3.7

C Dissanayake, A. C. Jacko, K. Kumarasinghe, R. Munir, H. Siddiquee, W. J. Newsome,

F. J. Uribe-Romo, E. S. Choi, S. Yadav, X. Z. Hu, Y. Takano, Santanu Pakhira,

D. C. Johnston, Q. P. Ding, Y. Furukawa, B. J. Powell, and Y. Nakajima

Gapless spinons and a field-induced soliton gap in the hyper-honeycomb cu oxalate framework

Compound [(C₂H₅)₃NH]₂Cu₂(C₂O₄)₃

Physical Review B (Editors’ suggestion)

108, 134418

2023

SCI

3.7

S. Gupta, S. Chakraborty, V. Bhasin, Santanu Pakhira, S. Dan, C.

Barreteau, Jean-laude Crivello, S. Nath Jha, Maxim Avdeev, B Dibyendu, V Paul-Boncour, and Chandan Mazumdar

CoMnCrGa: A Novel Ferromagnetic Material with High Spin-Polarization for Room Temperature Spintronics

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

11,

15489

2023

SCI

6.4

S. Chakraborty, S. Gupta, V. Bhasin, Santanu Pakhira, C. Barreteau,

Jean-Claude Crivello, S. N. Jha, D. Bhattacharyya, M Avdeev, V. Paul-Boncour, Jean-Marc Greneche, Eric Alleno, and Chandan Mazumdar

Observation of

charge transfer induced large enhancement of magnetic moment in a structurally disordered

inverse heusler alloy Fe₂RuGe

Physical Review B

108, 245151

2023

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, Yongbin Lee, Liqin Ke, and David C. Johnston

Magnetic-field-induced

ab-plane rotation of the Eu magnetic moments in trigonal EuMg₂Bi₂ and EuMg₂Sb₂ single

crystals below their Neel temperatures

Physical Review B

106, 184423

2022

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, Farhan Islam, Evan O’Leary, M. A. Tanatar, T. Heitmann, R. Prozorov,

Adam Kaminski, David Vaknin, and D. C. Johnston

A-type antiferromagnetic order in semiconducting EuMg₂Sb₂ single crystals

Physical Review B

106, 024418

2022

SCI

3.7

A. K Kundu, Santanu Pakhira, Tufan Roy, T. Yilmaz, Masahito Tsujikawa, Masafumi

Shirai, E. Vescovo, D. C. Johnston, Abhay N. Pasupathy, and Tonica Valla

Electronic and magnetic properties of the topological semimetal SmMg₂Bi₂

Physical Review B

106, 245131

2022

SCI

3.7

S. Chakraborty, S. Gupta, Santanu Pakhira, R. Choudhary, A. Biswas,

Y. Mudryk, Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Duane D. Johnson, and Chandan Mazumdar

Ground state degeneracy and complex magnetism of geometrically frustrated Gd₂Ir_0.97Si_2.97

Physical Review B

106, 224427

2022

SCI

3.7

S. Gupta, S. Chakraborty, Santanu Pakhira, C. Barreteau, Jean-Claude Crivello, B. Bandyopadhyay, Jean Marc Greneche, Eric Alleno, and

Chandan Mazumdar

Coexisting structural disorder and robust spin-polarization in halfmetallic FeMnVAl

Physical Review B

106, 115148

2022

SCI

3.7

Mily Kundu, Santanu Pakhira, D. Paudyal, N. Lakshminarasimhan, R. Ranganathan,

and Chandan Mazumdar

Magnetocaloric response with significant mechanical efficiency

in frustrated intermetallic compound Pr₂Co_0.86Si_2.88

Intermetallics

151, 107730

2022

SCI

4.4

A. K. Kundu, T. Roy, Santanu Pakhira, Ze-Bin Wu, Masahito Tsujikawa, Masafumi

Shirai, D. C. Johnston, Abhay N. Pasupathy, and Tonica Valla

Topological electronic

structure of YbMg₂Bi₂ and CaMg₂Bi₂

npj Quantum Materials

7, 67

2022

SCI

7.4

Q.-P. Ding, Santanu Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha, E. H. Krenkel, E. I. Timmons, M. A. Tanatar,

R. Prozorov, D. C. Johnston, and Y. Furukawa

Itinerant G-type antiferromagnet SrCr₂As₂ studied by magnetization, heat capacity, electrical resistivity, and NMR measurements

Physical Review B

105, 134408

2022

SCI

3.7

Q.-P. Ding, C. Dissanayake, Santanu Pakhira, W. J. Newsome, F. Uribe-Romo, D. C.

Johnston, Y. Nakajima, and Y. Furukawa

Slow spin dynamics in the hyperhoneycomb lattice

[(C₂H₅)₃NH]₂Cu₂(C₂O₄)₃ revealed by ¹H NMR studies

Physical Review B (Lett.)

105, L100405

2022

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, M. A. Tanatar, Thomas Heitmann, David Vaknin, and D. C. Johnston

A-type antiferromagnetic order and magnetic phase diagram of the trigonal Eu spin-7/2

triangular-lattice compound EuSn₂As₂

Physical Review B

104, 174427

2021

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, Y. Lee, Liqin Ke, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, Thomas Heitmann, David

Vaknin, and D. C. Johnston

Suppression of antiferromagnetic order and strong ferromagnetic

spin fluctuations in Ca(Co_1-xNi_x)_2-yAs₂ single crystals

Physical Review B

104, 094420

2021

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, Thomas Heitmann, S. X. M. Riberolles, B. G. Ueland, R. J. McQueeney,

D. C. Johnston, and David Vaknin

Zero-field magnetic ground state of EuMg₂Bi₂

Physical Review B

103, 024408

2021

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, A. V. Morozkin, Maxim Avdeev, and Chandan Mazumdar

Magnetic

structure of triangular lattice compound Tb₂Ni_0.90Si_2.94

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic

Materials

536, 168083

2021

SCI

2.7

B. G. Ueland, Santanu Pakhira, Bing Li, A Sapkota, N. S. Sangeetha, T. G. Perring, Y. Lee,

Liqin Ke, D. C. Johnston, and R. J. McQueeney

Carrier tuning of stoner ferromagnetism

in ThCr₂Si₂-structure cobalt arsenides

Physical Review B (Lett.)

104, L220410

2021

SCI

3.7

N. S. Sangeetha, Santanu Pakhira, Q.-P. Ding, Lennard Krause, H.-C. Lee, V. Smetana,

A.-V. Mudring, B. B. Iversen, Y. Furukawa, and D. C. Johnston

First-order transitions

at the Néel temperatures of trigonal SrMn₂P₂ and CaMn₂P₂ single crystals containing

corrugated-honeycomb Mn sublattices

PNAS

118, e2108724118

2021

SCI

12

Mily Kundu, Santanu Pakhira, Renu Choudhary, Durga Paudyal, N. Lakshminarasimhan,

Maxim Avdeev, Stephen Cottrell, Devashibhai Adroja, R. Ranganathan, and Chandan

Mazumdar

Complex magnetic properties associated with competing local and itinerant

magnetism in Pr₂Co_0.86Si_2.88

Scientific Reports

11, 13245

2021

SCI

4.6

Santanu Pakhira, M. A. Tanatar, and D. C. Johnston

Magnetic, thermal, and electronic transport

properties of EuMg₂Bi₂ single crystals

Physical Review B

101, 214407

2020

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, and D. C. Johnston

Short-range ferromagnetic order due to Ir substitutions in single-crystalline Ba(Co_1−xIr_x)₂As₂ (0 ≤

x ≤ 0.25)

Journal of Physics:  Condensed Matter

33, 115802

2020

SCI

2.7

Santanu Pakhira, Mily Kundu, R. Ranganathan, and Chandan Mazumdar

Studies on magnetocaloric

effect of Tb₂Ni_0.90Si_2.94 compound

Journal of Physics:  Condensed Matter

33,

095804

2020

SCI

2.7

Santanu Pakhira, N. S. Sangeetha, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, and D. C. Johnston

Ferromagnetic

cluster-glass phase in Ca(Co_1-xIr_x)_2-yAs₂ crystals

Physical Review B

102, 024410

2020

SCI

3.7

Santanu Pakhira, R.N. Bhowmik, Maxim Avdeev, R. Ranganathan, and Chandan Mazumdar

Modification of magnetic ground state in Tb₂Ni_0.90Si_2.94 by thermal annealing

Intermetallics

124, 106874

2020

SCI

4.4

Santanu Pakhira, R. Ranganathan, and Chandan Mazumdar

Resistivity and magnetoresistance

properties of R₂NiSi₃ (R = Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm) compounds

Journal of Magnetism and

Magnetic Materials

512, 167055

2020

SCI

2.7

David Vaknin, Santanu Pakhira, D. Schlagel, Farhan Islam, Jianhua Zhang, D. M. Pajerowski,

Cai-Zhuang Wang, D. C. Johnston, and R. J. McQueeney

Localized singlets and

ferromagnetic fluctuations in the dilute magnetic topological insulator Sn_0.95Mn_0.05Te

Physical Review B

(Rapid Comm.)

101, 140406(R)

2020

SCI

3.7

N. S. Sangeetha, Santanu Pakhira, D. H. Ryan, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, and D. C. Johnston

Magnetic phase transitions in Eu(Co_1-xNi_x)_2-yAs₂ single crystals

Physical Review Materials

4, 084407

2020

SCI

3.4

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, Maxim Avdeev, R.N. Bhowmik, and R. Ranganathan

Spatially limited antiferromagnetic order in a cluster glass compound

Tb₂Ni_0.90Si_2.94

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

785, 72–79

2019

SCI

6.371

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan

Magnetocaloric properties of

cluster glass compound Pr₂Ni_0.95Si_2.95

Intermetallics

111, 106490

2019

SCI

4.4

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan

Magnetic and magnetocaloric

properties of (Gd_1-xY_x)₂NiSi₃ compounds (x = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75),

Journal

of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

484, 456–461

2019

SCI

2.7

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, Abhik Basu, R. Ranganathan, R.N. Bhowmik, and

Biswarup Satpati

Unusual bidirectional frequency dependence of dynamical susceptibility in hexagonal intermetallic Pr₂Ni_0.95Si_2.95

Scientific Reports

8, 14870

2018

SCI

4.6

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, Dibyasree Choudhury, R. Ranganathan, and S. Giri

Observation of short range order driven large refrigerant capacity in chemically disordered

single phase compound Dy₂Ni_0.87Si_2.95

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

20, 13580–

13587

2018

SCI

3.68

Santanu Pakhira, Asish K. Kundu, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan

Role of random magnetic anisotropy on the valence, magnetocaloric and resistivity properties in a hexagonal Sm₂Ni_0.87Si_2.87 compound

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

30, 215601

2018

SCI

2.7

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, and S. Giri

Chemical disorder

driven reentrant spin cluster glass state formation and associated magnetocaloric properties of

Nd₂Ni_0.94Si_2.94

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

20, 7082–7092

2018

SCI

3.68

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, and S. Giri

Magnetic phase inhomogeneity

in frustrated intermetallic compound Sm₂Ni_0.87Si_2.87

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

742, 391–401

2018

SCI

6.371

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan

Low-field induced large magnetocaloric

effect in Tm₂Ni_0.93Si_2.93: influence of short-range magnetic correlation

Journal

of Physics: Condensed Matter

29, 505801

2017

SCI

2.7

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, and Maxim Avdeev

Magnetic frustration induced large magnetocaloric effect in the absence of long range magnetic order

Scientific Reports

7, 7367

2017

SCI

4.6

Papri Dasgupta, Kalipada Das, Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, S. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, and A. Poddar

Role of the stability of charge ordering in exchange bias effect in

doped manganites

Scientific Reports

7, 3220

2017

SCI

4.6

Santanu Pakhira, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, S. Giri, and Maxim Avdeev

Large magnetic cooling power involving frustrated antiferromagnetic spin-glass state in

R₂NiSi₃ (R= Gd, Er)

Physical Review B

94, 104414

2016

SCI

3.7

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