Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Simulations of Nanoseparated Charged Surfaces Reveal Charge-Induced Water Reorientation and Nonadditivity of Hydration and Mean-Field Electrostatic Repulsion
Authors: Alexander Schlaich, Alexandre P. dos Santos, and Roland R. Netz
Langmuir 35, 551–560 (2019); DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03474

Recommended with a commentary by Albert Johner, Institut Charles Sadron Strasbourg
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1. Forces between solid surfaces in aqueous electrolyte solutions
Authors: Alexander M.Smith, Michal Borkovec, and Gregor Trefalt
Adv. Colloid. Int. Sci. 275, 102078, (2020); DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2019.102078

2. Forces between silica particles in isopropanol solutions of 1:1 electrolytes
Authors: Biljana Stojimirović, Marco Galli, and Gregor Trefalt
Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 023315 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023315

Recommended with a commentary by Rudolf Podgornik, University of Chinese Academy of Science, and David Andelman, Tel Aviv University
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Observation of small Fermi pockets protected by clean CuO₂ sheets of a high-T_c superconductor
Authors: So Kunisada, Shunsuke Isono, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shiro Sakai, Cédric Bareille, Shunsuke Sakuragi, Ryo Noguchi, Kifu Kurokawa, Kenta Kuroda, Yukiaki Ishida, Shintaro Adachi, Ryotaro Sekine, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Shik Shin, Takami Tohyama, Kazuyasu Tokiwa, and Takeshi Kondo
Science 369 833-838 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/science.aay7311

Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley
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1. Exceptional E₈ symmetry in spin dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet BaCo₂V₂O₈
Authors: Haiyuan Zou, Y. Cui, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. Yang, G. Xu, A. Okutani, M. Hagiwara, M. Matsuda, G. Wang, G. Mussardo, K. Hódsági, M. Kormos, Z. Z. He, S. Kimura, Rong Yu, Weiqiang Yu, Jie Ma, and Jianda Wu
arXiv:2005.13302

2. Observation of E₈ particles in an Ising chain antiferromagnet
Authors: Zhao Zhang, Kirill Amelin, Xiao Wang, Haiyuan Zou, Jiahao Yang, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm, Tusharkanti Dey, Agustinus Agung Nugroho, Thomas Lorenz, Jianda Wu, and Zhe Wang
Phys. Rev. B 101, 220411(R) (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.220411
arXiv:2005.13772

3. Experimental observation of quantum many-body excitations of E₈ symmetry in the Ising chain ferromagnet CoNb₂O₆
Authors: Kirill Amelin, Johannes Engelmayer, Johan Viirok, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm, Thomas Lorenz, and Zhe Wang
Phys. Rev. B 102, 104431 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.104431
arXiv:2006.12956

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa, University of Tokyo
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