Ganesh Pokharel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physics
School of Field Investigations and Experimental Sciences Dr. Perry College of Mathematics, Computing, and Sciences

678-839-6025
gpokhare@westga.e9jhCecVX90vKFKjD8KHFMdu

Technology Learning Center - Room 2120
Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday: 2:30 - 4:30 PM
Tuesday & Thursday: 3:45 - 5:00 pm
Friday: 11 am - 1 pm
If none of the above time slots work, please email me to schedule a meeting.

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Ganesh Pokharel, Ph.D.
Biography

Dr. Ganesh Pokharel joined the University of West Georgia as an Assistant Professor of Physics in Fall 2024. He received his BSc and MSc from Tribhuvan University in Nepal, MS from the University of Memphis, PhD from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK), and Post doctoral research experience from the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research focuses on the exploration of quantum materials with transformative applications. Employing techniques of various types of solid-state reactions, he is interested to offer students experimental learning opportunities to synthesize magnetic and energy storage (battery) materials and characterize their physical and magnetic properties through crystallography, transport and bulk properties measurements.

Dr. Pokharel began his teaching career as a high school teacher in Nepal and later transitioned to college teaching. He taught a wide variety of courses both in Nepal and as a teaching assistant during his graduate studies in the USA. At UCSB, he served as a mentor and Graduate Student Assistant Coordinator, supermentor, to undergraduate students in their Quantum Foundry summer intership programs. He strives to motivate his students to explore new ideas and discoveries by incorporating recent technological breakthroughs into the curriculum and research projects. 

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Publication List

Phase-Separated Charge Order and Twinning Across Length Scales in CsV3Sb5, Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 093601, 2024. [View Publication External Resource]

Discovery of enormous orbital magnetic moments induced by finite Berry curvature in a kagome metal TbV6Sn6, Nat. Phys. 20, 1103–1109, 2024 [View Publication External Resource]

Revisiting spin ice physics in the ferromagnetic Ising pyrochlore Pr2Sn2O7, Phys. Rev. B 109, 134420, 2024. [View Publication External Resource]

Advances in high-pressure laser floating zone growth, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 95, 033903, 2024 [View Publication External Resource]

Nanoscale visualization and spectral fingerprints of the charge order in ScV6Sn6 distinct from other kagome metals, npj Quantum Mater. 9, 14, 2024 [View Publication External Resource]

Evidence of 2D Fermi surface and non-trivial electronic topology in Kagome lattice magnet GdV6Sn6 using de Haas van Alphen oscillations, Phys. Rev. B 109, 235145, 2024 [View Publication External Resource]

Frustrated charge order and cooperative distortions in ScV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. Mater 7, 104201, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Dynamics and Resilience of the Charge Density Wave in a bilayer kagome metal, Communications Materials 4, 103, 2023. [View Publication External Resource]

Electronic properties of kagome metal ScV6Sn6 using high field torque magnetometry, Phys. Rev. B 108, 245119, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Infrared probe of charge density wave gap in ScV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. B 108, 205118, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Angular-Momentum Transfer Mediated by a Vibronic-Bound-State, Adv. Sci. 2304698, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Structural evolution of the kagome superconductors AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, and Cs) through charge density wave order, Phys. Rev. Mater 7, 024806, 2023. [View Publication External Resource]

Flat band separation and resilient spin-Berry curvature in bilayer kagomemetals, Nat. Physics 19, pages 1135–1142, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Electrochemical Control of Magnetism on the Breathing Kagome Network of LixScMo3O8, Chem. Mater. 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Incommensurate Magnetic Order in the Z2 Kagome Metal GdV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. B 108, 035134, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Incommensurate charge-stripe correlations in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5−xSnx, npj Quantum Mater. 8, 37, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

Highly anisotropic magnetism in the vanadium-based kagome metal TbV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. Mater. 6, 104202, 2022. [View Publication External Resource]

Line-Graph Approach to Spiral Spin Liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237202, 2022 [View Publication External Resource]

Traversing the pyrochlore stability diagram; microwave-assisted synthesis and discovery of mixed B-site Ln2InSbO7 family, Phys. Rev. Mater. 6, 094403, 2022 [View Publication External Resource]

Mixed-chalcogen delafossite compounds; discovery and crystal field analysis of RbCeO2 and RbCeX2 alloys (X2: S2, SeS, Se2, TeSe, Te2), Phys. Rev. Mater. 6, 084402, 2022 [View Publication External Resource]

Spin dynamics in skyrmion host lacunar spinel GaV4S8, Phys. Rev. B 104 (22), 224425, 2021 [View Publication External Resource]

Realizing Kagome Band Structure in Two-Dimensional Kagome Surface States of 𝑅⁢V6⁢Sn6 (𝑅=Gd, Ho), Phys. Rev.Lett. 127, 266401, 2021 [View Publication External Resource]

Van Hove singularity in the magnon spectrum of the antiferromagnetic quantum honeycomb lattice, Nat. Commun. 12, 171 2021 [View Publication External Resource]

Complex magnetic phases in the polar tetragonal material NdCoGe3, Phys. Rev. B 103, 014426, 2021 (Editor’s suggestion) [View Publication External Resource]

Hierarchical excitations from correlated spin tetrahedra on the breathing pyrochlore lattice, Phys. Rev. B 103, 214418, 2021 [View Publication External Resource]

Magneto-elastic coupling in multiferroic metal-organic framework [(CH3)2NH2]Co(HCOO)3, AIP Advances 11, 015040, 2021 [View Publication External Resource]

Cluster frustration in the breathing pyrochlore magnet LiGaCr4S8, Physical Review Letters 125, 167201, 2020 (Editor’s suggestion) [View Publication External Resource]

Robust cycloid crossover driven by anisotropy in the skyrmion host GaV4S8, Phys. Rev. B 101, 094425, 2020 (Editors’ suggestion) [View Publication External Resource]

Negative thermal expansion and magnetoe- lastic coupling in the breathing pyrochlore lattice material LiGaCr4S8, Phys. Rev. B 97, 134117, 2018 [View Publication External Resource]

Terahertz dielectric analysis and spin-phonon coupling in multiferroic GeV4S8, Phys. Rev. B 96, 054432, 2017 [View Publication External Resource]

Structural, magnetic and Mossbauer studies of Ti-dopedGd2Fe17−xTix and Gd2Fe16Ga1−xTix (0≤ x≤ 1), J. Magn. Magn. Mater 382, Pages 31-42, 2015 [View Publication External Resource]

Complete miscibility of the AV3Sb5 kagome superconductors: design of mixed A-site AV3Sb5(A: K, Rb, Cs) alloys, Phys. Rev. Mater 7, 014801, 2023 [View Publication External Resource]

YbV3Sb4 and EuV3Sb4, vanadium-based kagome metals with Yb2+ and Eu2+ zig-zag chains, Phys. Rev. Mater 7, 064201, 2023 (Editor's suggestion) [View Publication External Resource]

Study of the electronic properties of topological kagome metals YV6Sn6 and GdV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. B 104 (23), 235139, 2021 [View Publication External Resource]

Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to a Density Wave Phase in UTe2, Phys. Rev. B 110, 144507, 2024 (Editors' Suggestion) [View Publication External Resource]

Frustrated Ising charge correlations in the kagome metal ScV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. B 110, L140304, 2024 (Letter) [View Publication External Resource]

Nanometric modulations of the magnetic structure of the element Nd, Materials Today Quantum, 100016, 2024. [View Publication External Resource]

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