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Arun Bansil is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and has an extensive research record primarily in the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Materials Science. Their work spans a diverse range of subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research focuses on several main topics, such as:

  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Rare-earth and actinide compounds

Bansil has contributed numerous publications covering these areas, with frequent appearances in venues like arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Physical Review Materials, Condensed Matter, and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bansil include:

  • Quantum metric nonlinear Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnetic heterostructure, 2023, Science
  • Realization of an intrinsic ferromagnetic topological state in MnBi8Te13, 2020, Science Advances
  • Noncollinear ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal with anisotropic anomalous Hall effect, 2021, Physical Review B
  • Tomographic reconstruction of oxygen orbitals in lithium-rich battery materials, 2021, Nature
  • Antisite defect qubits in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaborations have been a substantial part of Bansil's work, with frequent co-authors including Bahadur Singh, Hsin Lin, B. Barbiellini, R. S. Markiewicz, and Barun Ghosh. These partnerships reflect sustained academic engagement and multidisciplinary study.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a large-gap topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone on the surface

    Y. Xia;D. Qian;D. Qian;D. Hsieh;L. Wray

  • Discovery of a Weyl Fermion Semimetal and Topological Fermi Arcs

    Su-Yang Xu;Ilya Belopolski;Nasser Alidoust;Madhab Neupane

  • A tunable topological insulator in the spin helical Dirac transport regime

    D. Hsieh;Y. Xia;D. Qian;L. Wray

  • A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class

    Shin-Ming Huang;Su-Yang Xu;Ilya Belopolski;Chi-Cheng Lee

  • Topological crystalline insulators in the SnTe material class

    Timothy H. Hsieh;Hsin Lin;Junwei Liu;Junwei Liu;Wenhui Duan

  • Observation of a three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal phase in high-mobility Cd3As2.

    Madhab Neupane;Su Yang Xu;Raman Sankar;Nasser Alidoust

  • Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2

    Yi Zhang;Tay Rong Chang;Bo Zhou;Yong Tao Cui

  • Theoretical Discovery/Prediction: Weyl Semimetal states in the TaAs material (TaAs, NbAs, NbP, TaP) class

    Shin-Ming Huang;Su-Yang Xu;Ilya Belopolski;Chi-Cheng Lee

  • Colloquium : Topological band theory

    A. Bansil;Hsin Lin;Tanmoy Das

  • Observation of time-reversal-protected single-Dirac-cone topological-insulator states in Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3

    D. Hsieh;Y. Xia;D. Qian;L. Wray

  • Topological nodal-line fermions in spin-orbit metal PbTaSe2.

    Guang Bian;Tay Rong Chang;Tay Rong Chang;Raman Sankar;Su Yang Xu

  • Half-Heusler ternary compounds as new multifunctional experimental platforms for topological quantum phenomena

    Hsin Lin;L. Andrew Wray;Yuqi Xia;Suyang Xu

  • Observation of a topological crystalline insulator phase and topological phase transition in Pb 1−x Sn x Te

    Su Yang Xu;Chang Liu;N. Alidoust;M. Neupane

  • A topological insulator surface under strong Coulomb, magnetic and disorder perturbations

    L. Andrew Wray;L. Andrew Wray;Su Yang Xu;Yuqi Xia;David Hsieh

  • A new platform for topological quantum phenomena : Topological Insulator states in thermoelectric Heusler-related ternary compounds

    H. Lin;L.A. Wray;Y. Xia;S. Jia

  • Observation of topological order in a superconducting doped topological insulator

    L. Andrew Wray;L. Andrew Wray;Su Yang Xu;Yuqi Xia;Yew San Hor

  • How robust the topological properties of Bi2Se3 surface are : A topological insulator surface under strong Coulomb, magnetic and disorder perturbations

    L. Andrew Wray;Su-Yang Xu;Yuqi Xia;David Hsieh

  • Gated silicene as a tunable source of nearly 100% spin-polarized electrons

    Wei Feng Tsai;Cheng Yi Huang;Tay Rong Chang;Hsin Lin

  • Hedgehog spin texture and Berry's phase tuning in a magnetic topological insulator

    Su Yang Xu;Madhab Neupane;Chang Liu;Duming Zhang

  • Superconductivity and topological Fermi surface transitions in electron-doped cuprates near optimal doping

    Tanmoy Das;R.S. Markiewicz;A. Bansil

Frequent Co-Authors

Hsin Lin
Hsin Lin Academia Sinica
M. Zahid Hasan
M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University
Ilya Belopolski
Ilya Belopolski Princeton University
Fangcheng Chou
Fangcheng Chou National Taiwan University
Shuang Jia
Shuang Jia Peking University
Alexei V. Fedorov
Alexei V. Fedorov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zahid Hussain
Zahid Hussain Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robert Joseph Cava
Robert Joseph Cava Princeton University
Wanli Yang
Wanli Yang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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