Latest Publications

2024

• Magnetic Order and Strain in Hexagonal Manganese Pnictide CaMn2Bi2
  PRB submitted

• Light-induced reorientation transition in an antiferromagnetic semiconductor
  PRX submitted

• Long-lived Zone-boundary Magnons in an Antiferromagnet
  Nature Communications submitted

• Identification of Riluzole derivatives as novel calmodulin inhibitors with neuroprotective activity by a joint synthesis, biosensor, and computational guided strategy
  M Baltasar-Marchueta, L Llona, M Sara, I Barbolla, MG Ibarluzea, …
  Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 174, 116602

• MLe-KCNQ2: An Artificial Intelligence Model for the Prognosis of Missense KCNQ2 Gene Variants
  A Saez-Matia, MG Ibarluzea, S M-Alicante, A Muguruza-Montero, …
  International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (5), 2910

2023

• Wigner-Seitz truncated time-dependent density functional theory approach for the calculation of exciton binding energies in solids
  M Arruabarrena, A Leonardo, A Ayuela
  Physical Review B 108 (23), 235210

• Magnetic order and magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional ilmenenes
  RH Aguilera-del-Toro, M Arruabarrena, A Leonardo, A Ayuela
  Nanoscale Advances 5 (10), 2813-2819

• Molecular dynamics simulations of the calmodulin-induced α-helix in the SK2 calcium-gated potassium ion channel
  Rafael Ramis, Óscar R. Ballesteros, Arantza Muguruza-Montero, Sara M-Alicante, Eider Núñez, Álvaro Villarroel, Aritz Leonardo, Aitor Bergara.
  Journal of Biological Chemistry 299 (2)

2022

• Magnetism in Two-Dimensional Ilmenenes: Intrinsic Order and Strong Anisotropy
  RH Aguilera-del-Toro, M Arruabarrena, A Leonardo, A Ayuela
  arXiv preprint

• Improved KCNQ2 gene missense variant interpretation with artificial intelligence
  Alba Saez-Matia, Arantza Muguruza-Montero, Sara M-Alicante, Eider Nunez, Rafael Ramis, Oscar R Ballesteros, Markel G Ibarluzea, Carmen Fons, Aritz Leonardo, Aitor Bergara, Alvaro Villarroel.
  bioRxiv preprint

• Magnons and magnetic fluctuations in atomically thin MnBi₂Te₄
  David Lujan, Jeongheon Choe, Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Zhipeng Ye, Aritz Leonardo, T Nathan Nunley, Liang-Juan Chang, Shang-Fan Lee, Jiaqiang Yan, Gregory A Fiete, Rui He, Xiaoqin Li.
  Nature Communications

• Light-driven topological and magnetic phase transitions in thin layer antiferromagnets
  Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Ze-Xun Lin, Aritz Leonardo, Arthur Ernst, Maia G Vergniory, Gregory A Fiete.
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

• Out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy in bulk ilmenite CoTiO₃
  Mikel Arruabarrena, Aritz Leonardo, M Rodriguez-Vega, Gregory A Fiete, Andrés Ayuela.
  Physical Review B

2021

• An epilepsy-causing mutation leads to co-translational misfolding of the Kv7. 2 channel
  Janire Urrutia, Alejandra Aguado, Carolina Gomis-Perez, Arantza Muguruza-Montero, Oscar R Ballesteros, Jiaren Zhang, Eider Nuñez, Covadonga Malo, Hee Jung Chung, Aritz Leonardo, Aitor Bergara, Alvaro Villarroel.
  BMC Biology

• Do calmodulin binding IQ motifs have built‐in capping domains?
  Arantza Muguruza‐Montero, Rafael Ramis, Eider Nuñez, Oscar R. Ballesteros, Markel G. Ibarluzea, Ariane Araujo, Sara M‐Alicante, Janire Urrutia, Aritz Leonardo, Aitor Bergara, Alvaro Villarroel
  Protein Science

• Electron–Phonon and Spin–Lattice Coupling in Atomically Thin Layers of MnBi₂Te₄
  Jeongheon Choe, David Lujan, Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Zhipeng Ye, Aritz Leonardo, Jiamin Quan, T. Nathan Nunley, Liang-Juan Chang, Shang-Fan Lee, Jiaqiang Yan, Gregory A. Fiete, Rui He and Xiaoquin Li.
  NANOLETTERS

• β-As₂Te₃: Pressure-induced three-dimensional Dirac semimetal with ultralow room-pressure lattice thermal conductivity
  E Lora da Silva, Aritz Leonardo, Tao Yang, MC Santos, R Vilaplana, S Gallego-Parra, Aitor Bergara, FJ Manjón.
  Physical Review B

2020

• Group theory study of the vibrational modes and magnetic order in the topological antiferromagnet MnBi₂Te₄
  Martin Rodriguez-Vega, A Leonardo, Gregory A Fiete.
  Physical Review B

• Phonon-mediated dimensional crossover in bilayer CrI₃
  M Rodriguez-Vega, Ze-Xun Lin, A Leonardo, A Ernst, G Chaudhary, MG Vergniory, Gregory A Fiete.
  Physical Review

… a complete list of publications can be found here