Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems
Authors: Kohei Kawabata, Ramanjit Sohal, and Shinsei Ryu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070402 (2024) and supplemental material
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.070402

2. Reviving the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems
Authors: Yi-Neng Zhou, Xingyu Li, Hui Zhai, Chengshu Li, and Yingfei Gu
arXiv:2310.01475; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.01475

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas , University of California, San Diego
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How to assemble a scale-invariant gradient
Authors: Arnab Datta, Sagnik Ghosh and Jane Kondev
eLife 11:e71365; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71365

Recommended with a commentary by Arjun Narayanan, New York University Abu Dhabi
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Majorana chain and Ising model — (non-invertible) translations, anomalies, and emanant symmetries
Authors: Nathan Seiberg and Shu-Heng Shao
arXiv:2307.02534; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.02534

Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials
Authors: L. Chen, A. X. Wu, N. Tulu, J. Wang, A. Juanson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. T. Pettes, M. Campbell, C. A. Gadre, Y. Zhou, H. Chen, P. Cao, L. A. Jauregui, R. Wu, X. Pan, and J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi
arXiv:2211.07681; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2211.07681

2. Wafer-scale fabrication of 2D nanostructures via thermomechanical nanomolding
Authors: M. T. Kiani, Q. P. Sam, Y. S. Jung, H. J. Han, and J. J. Cha
Small doi:10.1002/smll.202307289
arXiv:2306.10167; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2306.10167

Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.04217

3. Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene I: Interaction-Driven Chern Bands and Fractional Quantum Hall States at Zero Magnetic Field
Authors: Junkai Dong, Taige Wang, Tianle Wang, Tomohiro Soejima, Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Daniel E. Parker
arXiv:2311.05568; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.05568

4. Theory of fractional Chern insulator states in pentalayer graphene moiré superlattice
Authors: Zhongqing Guo, Xin Lu, Bo Xie, Jianpeng Liu
arXiv:2311.14368; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.14368

5. Moiré Fractional Chern Insulators III: Hartree-Fock Phase Diagram, Magic Angle Regime for Chern Insulator States, the Role of the Moiré Potential and Goldstone Gaps in Rhombohedral Graphene Superlattices
Authors: Yves H. Kwan, Jiabin Yu, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Dmitri K. Efetov, Nicolas Regnault, and B. Andrei Bernevig
arXiv:2312.11617; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.11617

Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran , University of Oxford
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2024_02
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Backbone exponent for two-dimensional percolation
Authors: Pierre Nolin, Wei Qian, Xin Sun, and Zijie Zhuang
arXiv:2309.05050; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.05050

Recommended with a commentary by Ilya A. Gruzberg (The Ohio State University) and Greg Huber (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub – San Francisco)
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1. Unconventional Magnetic Oscillations in Kagome Mott Insulators
Authors: Guoxin Zheng, Yuan Zhu, Kuan-Wen Chen, Byungmin Kang, Dechen Zhang, Kaila Jenkins, Aaron Chan, Zhenyuan Zeng, Aini Xu, Oscar A. Valenzuela, Joanna Blawat, John Singleton, Patrick A. Lee, Shiliang Li, and Lu Li
arXiv:2310.07989; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07989

2. Dirac quantum spin liquid emerging in a kagome-lattice antiferromagnet
Authors: Zhenyuan Zeng, Chengkang Zhou, Honglin Zhou, Lankun Han, Runze Chi, Kuo Li, Maiko Kofu, Kenji Nakajima, Yuan Wei, Wenliang Zhang, D. G. Mazzone, Zi Yang Meng, and Shiliang Li
arXiv:2310.11646; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.11646

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma , University of California, Berkeley – Visiting Scholar
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Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Graphene Moire Superlattice
Authors: Zhengguang Lu, Tonghang Han, Yuxuan Yao, Aidan P. Reddy, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, and Long Ju
arXiv:2309.17436; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.17436

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University
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Driving force and pathway in polyelectrolyte complex coacervation
Authors: Shensheng Chen and Zhen-Gang Wang
PNAS, v. 119, n. 36, p. e2209975119 (2022); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209975119

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University
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1. A multiplayer multiteam nonlocal game for the toric code
Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi
Phys. Rev. B 107, 035409 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.035409

2. Playing nonlocal games with phases of matter
Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi
Phys. Rev. B 107, 045412 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.045412

Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore , University of Colorado, Boulder
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Superconductivity near 80 Kelvin in single crystals of La₃Ni₂O₇ under pressure
Authors: H. Sun, M. Huo, X. Hu, J. Li, Y. Han, L. Tang, Z. Mao, P. Yang, B. Wang, J. G. Cheng, D.-X. Yao, G.-M. Zhang, and M. Wang
Nature 621, 493 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06408-7

Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si , Rice University
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Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions as the Organizing Principle of a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet
Authors: Alexander Wietek and Sylvain Capponi and Andreas M. Läuchli
arXiv:2303.01585; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.01585

Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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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 in a bilayer graphene heterostructure
Authors: Ruirui Niu, Zhuoxian Li, Xiangyan Han, Zhuangzhuang Qu, Dongdong Ding, Zhiyu Wang, Qianling Liu, Tianyao Liu, Chunrui Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Menghao Wu, Qi Ren, Xueyun Wang, Jiawang Hong, Jinhai Mao, Zheng Han, Kaihui Liu, Zizhao Gan, and Jianming Lu
Nature Communications 13, 6241 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34104-z

3. Electronic ratchet effect in a moiré system: signatures of excitonic ferroelectricity
Authors: Zhiren Zheng, Xueqiao Wang, Ziyan Zhu, Stephen Carr, Trithep Devakul, Sergio de la Barrera, Nisarga Paul, Zumeng Huang, Anyuan Gao, Yang Zhang, Damien Bérubé, Kathryn Natasha Evancho, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Yao Wang, Su-Yang Xu, Efthimios Kaxiras, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Qiong Ma
arXiv: 2306.03922 (2023); DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2306.03922

Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner (Ohio State University) and Matthew Yankowitz (University of Washington)
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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
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Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry
Authors: Haidong Tian, Xueshi Gao, Yuxin Zhang, Shi Che, Tianyi Xu, Patrick Cheung, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mohit Randeria, Fan Zhang, Chun Ning Lau, and Marc W. Bockrath
Nature 614, 440 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05576-2
arXiv:2112.13401

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Leiden University
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1. Anisotropy as a diagnostic test for distinct tensor-network wave functions of integer- and half-integer-spin Kitaev quantum spin liquids
Authors: Hyun-Yong Lee, Takafumi Suzuki, Yong Baek Kim, and Naoki Kawashima
Phys. Rev. B 104, 024417 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024417

2. Z₂ Spin Liquids in the Higher Spin-S Kitaev Honeycomb Model: An Exact Deconfined Z₂ Gauge Structure in a Nonintegrable Model
Author: Han Ma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 156701 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.156701

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa , University of Tokyo
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1. Single electron-spin-resonance detection by microwave photon counting
Authors: Z. Wang, L. Balembois, M. M. Rančić, E. Billaud, M. Le Dantec, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Bertaina, T. Chanelière, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin
Nature 619, 276–281 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06097-2

2. Practical Single Microwave Photon Counter with 10^-22 W/√Hz sensitivity
Authors: L. Balembois, J. Travesedo, L. Pallegoix, A. May, E. Billaud, M. Villiers, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin
arXiv:2307.03614; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.03614

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin , Yale University
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Self-organisation of mortal filaments: the role of FtsZ treadmilling in bacterial division ring formation
Authors: Christian Vanhille-Campos, Kevin D. Whitley, Philipp Radler, Martin Loose, Séamus Holden, and Anđela Šarić
bioRxiv 2023.05.08.539808; DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.08.539808

Recommended with a commentary by Karsten Kruse , Université de Genève
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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
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1. Evidence for chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions
Authors: Hadrien Vignaud, David Perconte, Wenmin Yang, Bilal Kousar, Edouard Wagner, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hervé Courtois, Zheng Han, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé
arXiv:2305.01766; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.01766

2. Induced superconducting correlations in the quantum anomalous Hall insulator
Authors: Anjana Uday, Gertjan Lippertz, Kristof Moors, Henry F. Legg, Andrea Bliesener, Lino M. C. Pereira, A. A. Taskin, and Yoichi Ando
arXiv:2307.08578; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.08578

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
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