Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Discovery of segmented Fermi surface induced by Cooper pair momentum Authors: Zhen Zhu, Michał Papaj, Xiao-Ang Nie, Hao-Ke Xu, Yi-Sheng Gu, Xu Yang, Dandan Guan, Shiyong Wang, Yaoyi Li, Canhua Liu, Jianlin Luo, Zhu-An Xu, Hao Zheng, Liang Fu, and Jin-Feng Jia arXiv:2010.02216 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary […]

Authors: E. Kim and M H W Chan Nature, vol. 427, 225 (2004) Recommended and a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep04_01)

Authors: S. Chacko, K. Joshi, D. G. Kanhere and S. A. Blundell Phys. Rev, Lett. 92(13) 135506-1-4 (2004) Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun04_01)

1. Theory of fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moiré structures Authors: Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil arXiv:2311.03445; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.03445 2. Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects in rhombohedral multilayer graphene in the moiréless limit and in Coulomb imprinted superlattice Authors: Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang arXiv:2311.04217; DOI: […]

1. Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures Authors: Zhiren Zheng, Qiong Ma, Zhen Bi, Sergio de la Barrera, Ming-Hao Liu, Nannan Mao, Yang Zhang, Natasha Kiper, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jing Kong, William A. Tisdale, Ray Ashoori, Nuh Gedik, Liang Fu, Su-Yang Xu, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Nature 588, 71–76 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2970-9 2. Giant ferroelectric polarization […]

Nonreciprocal interactions give rise to fast cilium synchronisation in finite systems Authors: David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan PNAS 120, 40, e2307279120 (2023); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307279120 Recommended with a commentary by Bryan VanSaders , Drexel University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2023_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2023_03

Proximate deconfined quantum critical point in SrCu2(BO3)2 Authors: Yi Cui, Lu Liu, Huihang Lin, Kai-Hsin Wu, Wenshan Hong, Xuefei Liu, Cong Li, Ze Hu, Ning Xi, Shiliang Li, Rong Yu, Anders W. Sandvik, and Weiqiang Yu Science 380, 1179 (2023); DOI: 10.1126/science.adc9487 Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne […]

1. Signatures of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted MoTe2 Bilayer Authors: Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson, Chong Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, William Holtzmann, Yinong Zhang, Fengren Fan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, Liang Fu, Di Xiao, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu Nature (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06289-w arXiv:2304.08470; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08470 2. Integer […]

1. Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Myungchul Oh, Kevin P. Nuckolls, Dillon Wong, Ryan L. Lee, Xiaomeng Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ali Yazdani Nature 600, 240–245 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04121-x arXiv:2109.13944 ; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2109.13944 2. Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene Authors: Hyunjin Kim, Youngjoon Choi, Cyprian Lewandowski, […]

1. Nearly ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity Authors: S. Ran, C. Eckberg, Q-P. Ding, Y. Furukawa, T. Metz, S. R. Saha, I-L Liu, M. Zic, H. Kim, J-P. Paglione, and N. P. Butch Science, 6454, 365 (2019); DOI: 10.1126/science.aav8645 2. Chiral superconductivity in heavy-fermion metal UTe2 Authors: L. Jiao, S. Howard, S. Ran, Z. Wang, J. O. […]

A strange metal in a bosonic system Authors: Chao Yang, Haiwen Liu, Yi Liu, Jiandong Wang, Sishuang Wang, Yang Wang, Qianmei He, Yue Tang, Jian Wang, X.C. Xie, James M. Valles Jr., Jie Xiong, and Yanrong Li arXiv:2105.02654 Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Riverside |View […]

Discovery of unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV3Sb5 Authors: Yu-Xiao Jiang, Jia-Xin Yin, M. Michael Denner, Nana Shumiya, Brenden R. Ortiz, Gang Xu, Zurab Guguchia, Junyi He, Md Shafayat Hossain, Xiaoxiong Liu, Jacob Ruff, Linus Kautzsch, Songtian S. Zhang, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski, Qi Zhang, Tyler A. Cochran, Daniel Multer, Maksim Litskevich, Zi-Jia […]

1. Two-dimensional superconductivity and anisotropic transport at KTaO3 (111) interfaces Authors: Changjiang Liu, Xi Yan, Dafei Jin, Yang Ma, Haw-Wen Hsiao, Yulin Lin, Terence M. Bretz-Sullivan, Xianjing Zhou, John Pearson, Brandon Fisher, J. Samuel Jiang, Wei Han, Jian-Min Zuo, Jianguo Wen, Dillon D. Fong, Jirong Sun, Hua Zhou, and Anand Bhattacharya Science 371, 716 (2021); […]

1. Isospin Pomeranchuk effect and the entropy of collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Yu Saito, Fangyuan Yang, Xiaoxue Liu, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, J. I. A. Li, Erez Berg, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:2008.10830 2. Entropic evidence for a Pomeranchuk effect in magic angle graphene Authors: Asaf Rozen, Jeong Min Park, […]

1. The interplay of insulating and superconducting orders in magic-angle graphene bilayers Authors: Petr Stepanov, Ipsita Das, Xiaobo Lu, Ali Fahimniya, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frank H. L. Koppens, Johannes Lischner, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov arXiv:1911.09198 2. Decoupling superconductivity and correlated insulators in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Yu Saito, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, […]

1. Refined symmetry indicators for topological superconductors in all space groups Authors: S. Ono, H. C. Po, and H. Watanabe arXiv:1909.09634 2. Symmetry-based indicators for topological Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonians Authors: M. Geier, P. W. Brouwer and L. Trifunovic arXiv:1910.11271 Recommended with a commentary by Raquel Queiroz and Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science |View Commentary […]

Carving out OPE space and precise O(2) model critical exponents Authors: Shai M. Chester, Walter Landry, Junyu Liu, David Poland, David Simmons-Duffin, Ning Su, and Alessandro Vichi arXiv:1912.03324 Recommended with a commentary by Slava Rychkov, IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette) |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_02

1. Cyclotron orbit knot and tunable-field quantum Hall effect Authors: Yi Zhang Phys. Rev. Research 1, 022005(R) (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.022005 2. Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in Cd3As2 Authors: Cheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiang Yuan, Shiheng Lu, Jinglei Zhang, Awadhesh Narayan, Yanwen Liu, Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Ran Liu, Eun Sang Choi, Alexey […]

1. Magnetic-field-induced quantized anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 Authors: Yujun Deng, Yijun Yu, Meng Zhu Shi, Jing Wang, Xian Hui Chen and Yuanbo Zhang arXiv:1904.11468 2. Quantum phase transition from axion insulator to Chern insulator in MnBi2Te4 Authors: Chang Liu, Yongchao Wang, Hao Li, Yang Wu, Yaoxin Li, Jiaheng Li, Ke […]

1. Two Diverging Length Scales in the Structure of Jammed Packings Authors: D. Hexner, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 115501 (2018) 2. Can a Large Packing be Assembled from Smaller Ones? Authors: D. Hexner, P. Urbani, and F. Zamponi Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 068003 (2019) Recommended with a commentary […]