Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Magic Angle Hierarchy in Twisted Graphene Multilayers Authors: E. Khalaf, A. J. Kruchkov, G. Tarnopolsky, and A. Vishwanath Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.085109 arXiv:1901.10485 2. Tunable Phase Boundaries and Ultra-Strong Coupling Superconductivity in Mirror Symmetric Magic-Angle Trilayer Graphene Authors: JM Park, Y. Cao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and P. Jarillo-Herrero arXiv:2012.01434 […]

Time’s Arrow and the Fragility of Topological Phases Authors: Max McGinley and Nigel R. Cooper arXiv:2003.08120 Recommended with a commentary by Michael Zaletel, University of California, Berkeley |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2020_03

Observation of a chiral spin liquid phase of the Hubbard model on the triangular lattice: a density matrix renormalization group study Authors: Aaron Szasz, Johannes Motruk, Michael P. Zaletel, Joel E. Moore arXiv:1808.00463 Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_02

1. Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Matthew Yankowitz, Shaowen Chen, Hryhoriy Polshyn, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, David Graf, Andrea F. Young, Cory R. Dean Science 24 Jan 2019: eaav1910 2. Emergent ferromagnetism near three-quarters filling in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Aaron L. Sharpe, Eli J. Fox, Arthur W. Barnard, Joe Finney, Kenji Watanabe, […]

Filling-Enforced Gaplessness in Band Structures of the 230 Space Groups Authors: Haruki Watanabe, Hoi Chun Po, Michael P. Zaletel, and Ashvin Vishwanath Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 096404 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_01

1. Robust fractional quantum Hall states and continuous quantum phase transitions in a half-filled bilayer graphene Landau level Authors: Alexander A. Zibrov, Carlos. R. Kometter, Haoxin Zhou, Eric M. Spanton, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:1611.07113 2. Even denominator fractional quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene Authors: J. I. […]

1. Signatures of Dirac cones in a DMRG study of the Kagome Heisenberg model. Authors: Yin- Chen He, Michael P. Zaletel, Masaki Oshikawa, and Frank Pollmann. arXiv:1611.06238 2. Competing Spin Liquid Phases in the S=1/2 Heisenberg Model on the Kagome Lattice. Authors: Shenghan Jiang, Panjin Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Ying Ran. arXiv:1610.02024 Recommended with a […]

Competing valley, spin, and orbital symmetry breaking in bilayer graphene. Authors: B.M. Hunt, J.I.A. Li, A.A. Zibrov, L. Wang, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, C.R. Dean, M. Zaletel, R.C. Ashoori, and A.F. Young. arXiv:1607.0646v1 Recommended with a commentary by S. A. Parameswaran, University of California, Irvine. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_03

1.Is the composite fermion a Dirac particle? Authors:Dam Thanh Son. arXiv:1502.03446(2015) 2.Dual Dirac liquid on the surface of the electron topological insulator. Authors:Chong Wang and T. Senthil. arXiv:1505.05141(2015) 3.Particle-vortex duality of 2D Dirac fermion from electric-magnetic duality of 3D topological insulators. Authors:Max A. Metlitski and Ashvin Vishwanath. arXiv:1505.05142(2015) 4.Half-filled Landau level, topological insulator surfaces, and […]

Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University | View Contributions | Vivek Aji, University of California, Riverside |  View Contributions | Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology | View Contributions | David Andelman, Tel Aviv University | View Contributions | Philip Anderson, Princeton University, Princeton | View Contributions | Arezoo M. Ardekani, University of Notre Dame | View Contributions | […]