Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Extended Charge Layers in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Nanocapacitors Revealed by Operando Electron Holography
Authors: C. Gatel, R. Serra, K. Gruel, A. Masseboeuf, L. Chapuis, R. Cours, L. Zhang, B. Warot-Fonrose, and M. J. Hÿtch
Physical Review Letters 129, 137701 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.137701

Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Ionic liquids behave as dilute electrolyte solutions
Authors: M. A. Gebbie, M. Valtiner, X. Banquy, E. T. Fox, W. A. Henderson, and J. N. Israelachvili
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 110, 9674 (2013); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307871110

2. The electrostatic screening length in concentrated electrolytes increases with concentration
Authors: A. M. Smith, A. A. Lee, and S. Perkin
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 2157 (2016); DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00867

3. Underscreening in concentrated electrolytes
Authors: A. A. Lee and C. S. Perez-Martinez and A. M. Smith, and S. Perkin
Faraday Discuss. 199, 239 (2017); DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00250A

Recommended with a commentary by Christian Holm, University of Stuttgart, and Svyatoslav Kondrat, University of Stuttgart and Polish Academy of Sciences
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A Quantum Inspired Approach to Exploit Turbulence Structures
Authors: Nikita Gourianov, Michael Lubasch, Sergey Dolgov, Quincy Y. van den Berg, Hessam Babaee, Peyman Givi, Martin Kiffner, and Dieter Jaksch
Nature Computational Science 2, 30–37 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s43588-021-00181-1

Recommended with a commentary by E. Miles Stoudenmire, Flatiron Institute
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1. Monitored Quantum Dynamics of the Kitaev Spin Liquid
Authors: Ali Lavasani, Zhu-Xi Luo, and Sagar Vijay
arXiv:2207.02877; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.02877

2. Topology, criticality, and dynamically generated qubits in a stochastic measurement-only Kitaev model
Authors: Adithya Sriram, Tibor Rakovsky, Vedika Khemani, and Matteo Ippoliti
arXiv:2207.07096; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.07096

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego
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1. Experimental signature of the parity anomaly in a semi-magnetic topological insulator
Authors: M. Mogi, Y. Okamura, M. Kawamura, R. Yoshimi, K. Yasuda, A. Tsukazaki, K. S. Takahashi, T. Morimoto, N. Nagaosa, M. Kawasaki, Y. Takahashi, and Y. Tokura
Nature Physics 18, 390 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01490-y
arXiv:2105.04127

2. Half-quantized Hall effect and power law decay of edge-current distribution
Authors: J.-Y. Zou, B. Fu, H.-W. Wang, Z.-A. Hu, and S.-Q. Shen
Phys. Rev. B 105, L201106 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L201106
arXiv:2202.08493

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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1. Freely Flowing Currents and Electric Field Expulsion in Viscous Electronics
Authors: Michael Shavit, Andrey Shytov, and Gregory Falkovich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026801 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.026801

2. Imaging hydrodynamic electrons flowing without Landauer–Sharvin resistance
Authors: C. Kumar, J. Birkbeck, J. A. Sulpizio, D. Perello, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, O. Reuven, T. Scaffidi, Ady Stern, A. K. Geim, and S. Ilani
Nature 609, 276 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05002-7

3. Spread and erase – How electron hydrodynamics can eliminate the Landauer-Sharvin resistance
Authors: Ady Stern, Thomas Scaffidi, Oren Reuven, Chandan Kumar, John Birkbeck, and Shahal Ilani
arXiv: 2110.15369 (2021); DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2110.15369

Recommended with a commentary by Aaron Hui and Brian Skinner, Ohio State University
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Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands
Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Bowen Shen, Yang Zhang, Lizhong Li, Zui Tao, Trithep Devakul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak
Nature 600, 641 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04171-1

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University
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1. RNA phase transitions in repeat expansion disorders
Authors: A. Jain and R. D. Vale
Nature 546, 243–247 (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nature22386

2. Condensates in RNA repeat sequences are heterogeneously organized and exhibit reptation dynamics
Authors: H. T. Nguyen, N. Hori, and D. Thirumalai
Nature Chemistry 14, 775–785 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-00934-z

Recommended with a commentary by Omar A. Saleh, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Minimal quantum viscosity from fundamental physical constants
Authors: K. Trachenko and V. V. Brazhkin
Science Advances, 6, eaba 3747 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3747

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University
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Universal Thermal Entanglement of Multichannel Kondo Effects
Authors: Donghoon Kim, Jeongmin Shim, and H.-S. Sim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 226801 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.226801

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa, University of Tokyo
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Measurements conspire nonlocally to restructure critical quantum states
Authors: Samuel J. Garratt, Zack Weinstein, and Ehud Altman
arXiv:2207.09476; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.09476

Recommended with a commentary by S. A. Parameswaran, University of Oxford
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InAs-Al Hybrid Devices Passing the Topological Gap Protocol
Authors: Microsoft Quantum
arXiv:2207.02472v2; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.02472

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology
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1. Twisted van der Waals Josephson Junction Based on a High-T_c Superconductor
Authors: Jongyun Lee, Wonjun Lee, Gi-Yeop Kim, Yong-Bin Choi, Jinho Park, Seong Jang, Genda Gu, Si-Young Choi, Gil Young Cho, Gil-Ho Lee, and Hu-Jong Lee
Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 10469-10477; DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03906

2. Emergent Interfacial Superconductivity between Twisted Cuprate Superconductors
Authors: S. Y. Frank Zhao, Nicola Poccia, Xiaomeng Cui, Pavel A. Volkov, Hyobin Yoo, Rebecca Engelke, Yuval Ronen, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Stephan Plugge, Tarun Tummuru, Marcel Franz, Jedediah H. Pixley, and Philip Kim
arXiv:2108.13455; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2108.13455

3. Doping a moiré Mott insulator: A t–J model study of twisted cuprates
Authors: Xue-Yang Song , Ya-Hui Zhang, and Ashvin Vishwanath
Phys. Rev. B 105, L201102 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L201102

Recommended with a commentary by Leonid I. Glazman, Yale University
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Susceptibility of Polar Flocks to Spatial Anisotropy
Authors: Alexandre Solon, Hugues Chaté, John Toner, and Julien Tailleur
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 208004 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.208004

Recommended with a commentary by Étienne Fodor and Alessandro Manacorda , University of Luxembourg
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1. Nearly ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity
Authors: S. Ran, C. Eckberg, Q-P. Ding, Y. Furukawa, T. Metz, S. R. Saha, I-L Liu, M. Zic, H. Kim, J-P. Paglione, and N. P. Butch
Science, 6454, 365 (2019); DOI: 10.1126/science.aav8645

2. Chiral superconductivity in heavy-fermion metal UTe₂
Authors: L. Jiao, S. Howard, S. Ran, Z. Wang, J. O. Rodriguez, M. Sigrist, Z. Wang, N. P. Butch, and V. Madhavan
Nature, 579 , 523 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2122-2

3. Multicomponent superconducting order parameter in UTe₂
Authors: I. M. Hayes, D. S. Wei, T. Metz, J. Zhang, Y. S. Eo, S. Ran, S. R. Saha, J. Collini, N. P. Butch, D. F. Agterberg, A. Kapitulnik, and J. Paglione
Science 373, 797–801 (2021); DOI: 10.1126/science.abb0272

Recommended with a commentary by Piers Coleman and Tamaghna Hazra , Rutgers University
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1. Balance of osmotic pressures determines the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic volume ratio of the cell
Authors: Dan Deviri and Samuel A. Safran
PNAS, 119(21) e2118301119 (2022); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2118301119

2. Control of nuclear size by osmotic forces in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Authors: Joël Lemière, Paula Real-Calderon, Liam J. Holt, Thomas G. Fai, and Fred Chang
bioRxiv; DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.05.471221

Recommended with a commentary by Ajay Gopinathan, University of California, Merced
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Quantum advantage in learning from experiments
Authors: Hsin-Yuan Huang, Michael Broughton, Jordan Cotler, Sitan Chen, Jerry Li, Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven, Ryan Babbush, Richard Kueng, John Preskill, and Jarrod R. McClean
arXiv:2112.00778; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2112.00778

Recommended with a commentary by Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley
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Light-induced ferromagnetism in moiré superlattices
Authors: Xi Wang, Chengxin Xiao, Heonjoon Park, Jiayi Zhu, Chong Wang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Di Xiao, Daniel R. Gamelin, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu
Nature 604, 468 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04472-z

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Character of the “normal state” of the nickelate superconductors
Authors: Kyuho Lee, Bai Yang Wang, Motoki Osada, Berit H. Goodge, Tiffany C. Wang, Yonghun Lee, Shannon Harvey, Woo Jin Kim, Yijun Yu, Chaitanya Murthy, Srinivas Raghu, Lena F. Kourkoutis, and Harold Y. Hwang
arXiv:2203.02580; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.02580

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, National Tsunghua University
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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
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