Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization Authors: Nitish Mehta, Roman Kuzmin, Cristiano Ciuti, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan arXiv:2203.17186; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.17186 Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_02

Physical modeling of the heritability and maintenance of epigenetic modifications Authors: Sarah H. Sandholtz, Quinn MacPherson , and Andrew J. Spakowitz PNAS 117, 20423 (2020); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920499117 Recommended with a commentary by Jens-Uwe Sommer, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden and TU Dresden |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_03

Quantum anomalous Hall effect with a permanent magnet defines a quantum resistance standard Authors: Yuma Okazaki, Takehiko Oe, Minoru Kawamura, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Shuji Nakamura, Shintaro Takada, Masataka Mogi, Kei S. Takahashi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, and Nobu-Hisa Kaneko Nature Physics 18, 25-29 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01424-8 Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts […]

Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Paking in d = 2 and d = 3 Authors: Alessio Zaccone Physical Review Letters 128, 028002 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.028002 Recommended with a commentary by Christos Likos, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02

Discovery of charge-4e and charge-6e superconductivity in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 Authors: Jun Ge, Pinyuan Wang, Ying Xing, Qiangwei Yin, Hechang Lei, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang arXiv:2201.10352; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2201.10352 Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Berkeley – Visitor |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_03

Non-orientable order and non-Abelian response in frustrated metamaterials Authors: Xiaofei Guo, Marcelo Guzman, David Carpentier, Denis Bartolo, and Corentin Coulais arXiv:2111.13933 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Souslov, University of Bath |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_01

1. Dissipation-assisted operator evolution method for capturing hydrodynamic transport Authors: Tibor Rakovszky, C. W. von Keyserlingk, and Frank Pollmann Phys. Rev. B 105, 075131 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.075131 2. Operator backflow and the classical simulation of quantum transport Authors: C. W. von Keyserlingk, Frank Pollmann, and Tibor Rakovszky arXiv:2111.09904 Recommended with a commentary by E. Miles […]

Large N Theory of Critical Fermi Surfaces Authors: I. Esterlis, H. Guo, A. A. Patel, and S. Sachdev Phys. Rev. B 103, 235129 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235129 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03

Quantum phase transition in a clean superconductor with repulsive dynamical interaction Authors: Dimitri Pimenov and Andrey V. Chubukov arXiv:2112.06273 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01

1. Metal pad instabilities in liquid metal batteries Authors: Oleg Zikanov Phys. Rev. E 92, 063021 (2015); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063021 2. Fluid Mechanics of Liquid Metal Batteries Authors: Douglas H. Kelley and Tom Weier Appl. Mech. Rev. 70(2): 020801 (2018); DOI: 10.1115/1.4038699 Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner, Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

Crazing Reveals an Entanglement Network in Glassy Ring Polymers Authors: Jiuling Wang and Ting Ge Macromolecules, 54, 16, 7500–7511, (2021); DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01080 Recommended with a commentary by Jan Smrek, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03

Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion Authors: David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Kritsana Srakaew, Simon Hollerith, Jun Rui, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Norman Y. Yao, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher arXiv:2107.00038 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

1. Quantum-critical continuum in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Alexandre Jaoui, Ipsita Das, Giorgio Di Battista, Jaime Díez-Mérida, Xiaobo Lu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov arXiv:2108.07753 2. Incoherent transport across the strange metal regime of highly overdoped cuprates Authors: J. Ayres, M. Berben, M. Čulo, Y.-T. Hsu, E. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

1. Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor Authors: Google Quantum AI and collaborators arXiv:2107.13571 2. Observation of a many-body-localized discrete time crystal with a programmable spin-based quantum simulator Authors: J. Randall, C. E. Bradley, F. V. van der Gronden, A. Galicia, M. H. Abobeih, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, F. Machado, N. […]

Quantized Nonlinear Conductance in Ballistic Metals Authors: C. L. Kane arXiv:2108.05870 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_02

Odd Diffusivity of Chiral Random Motion Authors: Cory Hargus, Jeffrey M. Epstein, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178001 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.178001 arXiv:2103.09958 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_03

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, […]