Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Isospin magnetism and spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene
Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Yu Saito, Liam Cohen, William Huynh, Caitlin L. Patterson, Fangyuan Yang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young
arXiv:2110.11317

2. Superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene
Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Tian Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young
Nature 598, 434–438 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03926-0
arXiv:2106.07640

3. Cascade of isospin phase transitions in Bernal bilayer graphene at zero magnetic field
Authors: Sergio C. de la Barrera, Samuel Aronson, Zhiren Zheng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Qiong Ma, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Raymond Ashoori
arXiv:2110.13907

4. Quantum cascade of new correlated phases in trigonally warped bilayer graphene
Authors: Anna M. Seiler, Fabian R. Geisenhof, Felix Winterer, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tianyi Xu, Fan Zhang, and R. Thomas Weitz
arXiv:2111.06413

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanoscience, Madrid and Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian
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1. Oscillations of the thermal conductivity in the spin-liquid state of α-RuCl₃
Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, and N. P. Ong
Nature Physics 17, 915–919 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01243-x

2. The planar thermal Hall conductivity in α-RuCl₃
Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Nicholas Quirk, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, and N. P. Ong
arXiv:2111.0xxxx (to appear)

3. Robustness of the thermal Hall effect close to half-quantization in a field-induced spin liquid state
Authors: J.A.N. Bruin, R.R. Claus, Y. Matsumoto, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, and H. Takagi
arXiv:2104.12184

4. Evidence of a Phonon Hall Effect in the Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate α-RuCl₃
Authors: É. Lefrançois, G. Grissonnanche, J. Baglo, P. Lampen-Kelley, J. Yan, C. Balz, D. Mandrus, S. E. Nagler, S. Kim, Young-June Kim, N. Doiron-Leyraud, and L. Taillefer
arXiv:2111.05493

5. Sign Structure of Thermal Hall Conductivity and Topological Magnons for In-Plane Field Polarized Kitaev Magnets
Authors: Li Ern Chern , Emily Z. Zhang , and Yong Baek Kim
Physical Review Letters 126, 147201 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.147201

6. Pseudoscalar U(1) spin liquids in α-RuCl₃
Authors: Inti Sodemann Villadiego
arXiv:2106.05290

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT
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1. Active topological glass
Authors: Jan Smrek, Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, and Kurt Kremer
Nature Communications, 11: 26, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13696-z

2. Emergence of active topological glass through directed chain dynamics and nonequilibrium phase separation
Authors: Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, Kurt Kremer, and Jan Smrek
Physical Review Research, 2: 043249, 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043249

Recommended with a commentary by Dimitris Vlassopoulos, University of Crete and Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2021_03
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