Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Millisecond coherence in a superconducting qubit
Authors: Aaron Somoroff, Quentin Ficheux, Raymond A. Mencia, Haonan Xiong, Roman V. Kuzmin, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan
arXiv:2103.08578

2. New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds
Authors: Alexander P. M. Place, Lila V. H. Rodgers, Pranav Mundada, Basil M. Smitham, Mattias Fitzpatrick, Zhaoqi Leng, Anjali Premkumar, Jacob Bryon, Andrei Vrajitoarea, Sara Sussman, Guangming Cheng, Trisha Madhavan, Harshvardhan K. Babla, Xuan Hoang Le, Youqi Gang, Berthold Jäck, András Gyenis, Nan Yao, Robert J. Cava, Nathalie P. de Leon, and Andrew A. Houck
Nature Communications 12, 1779 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22030-5
arXiv:2003.00024

3. Protecting a bosonic qubit with autonomous quantum error correction
Authors: Jeffrey M. Gertler, Brian Baker, Juliang Li, Shruti Shirol, Jens Koch, and Chen Wang
Nature 590, 243-248 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03257-0
arXiv:2004.09322

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University
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Gut bacterial aggregates as living gels
Authors: Brandon H. Schlomann, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy
eLife 2021;10:e71105; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71105

Recommended with a commentary by Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Purdue University and Santa Fe Institute
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1. Quantum criticality in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides
Authors: Augusto Ghiotto, En-Min Shih, Giancarlo S. S. G. Pereira, Daniel A. Rhodes, Bumho Kim, Jiawei Zang, Andrew J. Millis, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Lei Wang, Cory R. Dean, and Abhay N. Pasupathy
Nature 597, 345–349 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03815-6
arXiv:2103.09796

2. Continuous Mott transition in semiconductor moiré superlattices
Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Lizhong Li, Yang Zhang, Kaifei Kang, Jiacheng Zhu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Debanjan Chowdhury, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak
Nature 597, 350–354 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03853-0
arXiv:2103.09779

3. Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands
Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Bowen Shen, Yang Zhang, Lizhong Li, Trithep Devakul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak
arXiv:2107.01796

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2021_03
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