Rate My Professor Chetan Dhital

As an experimental condensed matter physicist, Dhital investigates materials and phenomena driven by underlying physics with potential technological applications, focusing on non-centrosymmetric compounds that host multiferroicity, superconductivity, magnetic skyrmions, and Weyl fermions. His experimental approaches include bulk single crystal synthesis via high-temperature solid-state reactions, measurements of magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, resistivity, and neutron and x-ray scattering conducted at facilities such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dhital has secured funding from the National Science Foundation for condensed matter physics research and, in 2025, a three-year $799,934 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy with Dr. Madalynn Marshall for energy-efficient technologies. His scholarly output includes publications such as 'Entropic signatures of the skyrmion lattice phase in MnSiAl and FeCoSi' (Physical Review B, 2020), 'Unpinning the skyrmion lattice in MnSi: Effect of substitutional disorder' (Physical Review B, 2019), 'Exploring the origins of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in MnSi' (Physical Review B, 2017), and 'Observation of Dirac node formation and mass acquisition in a topological crystalline insulator' (Science, 2014). His work has earned over 1,997 citations. Awards include the GMAG outstanding graduate dissertation award (APS March Meeting, 2014) and DMP postdoctoral travel award (APS March Meeting, 2018). At KSU, he teaches introductory physics, thermal physics, and laboratories, and contributes to department committees, peer review for journals like Physical Review B, and undergraduate research judging.