Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order and its realization in qLDPC codes Authors: Benedikt Placke, Tibor Rakovszky, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, and Vedika Khemani arxiv:2412.13248, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.13248 2. Expansion creates spin-glass order in finite-connectivity models: a rigorous and intuitive approach from the theory of LDPC codes Authors: Benedikt Placke, Grace M. Sommers, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Tibor […]

Observation of the Axion quasiparticle in 2D MnBi2Te4 Authors: J. X. Qiu, B. Ghosh, J. Schütte-Engel, et al. Nature 641, 62 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08862-x Recommended with a commentary by Taige Wang and Dung-Hai Lee , University of California, Berkeley |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2025_02

A resonant valence bond spin liquid in the dilute limit of doped frustrated Mott insulators Authors: Cecilie Glittum, Antonio Štrkalj, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Paul A. Goddard, Cristian D. Batista, and Claudio Castelnovo Nat. Phys. (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02923-8 Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may […]

An efficient and exact noncommutative quantum Gibbs sampler Authors: Chi-Fang Chen, Michael J. Kastoryano, and András Gilyén arXiv:2311.09207, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.09207 Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , UC Berkeley and LBNL |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2025_02

1. Chiral split magnon in altermagnetic MnTe Authors: Z. Liu, M. Ozeki, S. Asai, S. Itoh, and T. Masuda Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156702 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.156702 2. Circular dichroism in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering: Probing altermagnetic domains in MnTe Authors: D. Takegami, T. Aoyama, T. Okauchi, T. Yamaguchi, S. Tippireddy, S. Agrestini, M. García-Fernández, […]

Polymer physics by quantum computing Authors: C. Micheletti, P. Hauke, and P. Faccioli Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080501 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.080501 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2025_02

1. High-temperature field-free superconducting diode effect in high-Tc cuprates Authors: Shichao Qi, Jun Ge, Chengcheng Ji, Yiwen Ai, Gaoxing Ma, Ziqiao Wang, Zihan Cui, Yi Liu, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang Nature Communications 16, 531 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55880-4 2. Superconducting diode effect and interference patterns in kagome CsV3Sb5 Authors: Tian Le, Zhiming Pan, Zhuokai Xu, […]

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Liquid Water Are Marginal for Its Average Structure but Significant for Dynamics Authors: Nore Stolte, János Daru, Harald Forbert, Jörg Behler, and Dominik Marx J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 12144 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02925 Recommended with a commentary by David Beyer (University of Stuttgart) and Zhen-Gang Wang (Caltech) |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

Pair Wavefunction Symmetry in UTe2 from Zero-Energy Surface State Visualization Authors: Qiangqiang Gu, Shuqiu Wang, Joseph P. Carroll, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Xiaolong Liu, J.C. Séamus Davis, and Dung-Hai Lee Science 388, 938-944 (2025), DOI: 10.1126/science.adk7219 arXiv:2501.16636, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.16636 Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. […]

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice Authors: Bastián Pradenas, Grigor Adamyan, and Oleg Tchernyshyov arXiv:2504.12411, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.12411 Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran , University of Oxford |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2025_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2025_03

1. Semi-classical theory of bipolaronic superconductivity in a bond-modulated electron-phonon model Authors:Kyung-Su Kim, Zhaoyu Han, and John Sous Phys. Rev. B 109, L220502 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L220502 2. Bipolaronic superconductivity out of a Coulomb gas Authors:J. Sous, C. Zhang, M. Berciu, D. R. Reichman, B. V. Svistunov, N. V. Prokof’ev, and A. J. Millis Phys. Rev. […]

Locomotion of Active Polymerlike Worms in Porous Media Authors: R. Sinaasappel, M. Fazelzadeh, T. Hooijschuur, Q. Di, S. Jabbari-Farouji, and A. Deblais Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128303 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.128303 Recommended with a commentary by Emanuele Locatelli , University of Padova and INFN, Padova Division |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

A local automaton for the 2D toric code Authors: Shankar Balasubramanian, Margarita Davydova and Ethan Lake arXiv:2412.19803, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.19803 Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore , University of Colorado Boulder |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2025_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2025_03

1. Beyond-Hubbard pairing in a cuprate ladder Authors: Hari Padma, Jinu Thomas, Sophia TenHuisen, Wei He, Ziqiang Guan, Jiemin Li, Byungjune Lee, Yu Wang, Seng Huat Lee, Zhiqiang Mao, Hoyoung Jang, Valentina Bisogni, Jonathan Pelliciari, Mark P. M. Dean, Steven Johnston, and Matteo Mitrano arXiv:2501.10287, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.10287 2. Cooper-Pair Localization in the Magnetic Dynamics of […]

1. Cell Membranes Resist Flow Authors: Zheng Shi, Zachary T. Graber, Tobias Baumgart, Howard A. Stone, and Adam E. Cohen Cell 175, 1769–1779 (2018), DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.054 2. Cell protrusions and contractions generate long-range membrane tension propagation Authors: Henry De Belly, Shannon Yan, Hudson Borja da Rocha, Sacha Ichbiah, Jason P. Town, Patrick J. Zager, Dorothy […]

1. Superfluid stiffness of twisted trilayer graphene superconductors Authors: Abhishek Banerjee, Zeyu Hao, Mary Kreidel, Patrick Ledwith, Isabelle Phinney, Jeong Min Park, Andrew Zimmerman, Marie E. Wesson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert M. Westervelt, Amir Yacoby, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Pavel A. Volkov, Ashvin Vishwanath, Kin Chung Fong, and Philip Kim Nature, volume 638, pages 93–98 (2025), […]

Unveiling Resilient Superconducting Fluctuations in Atomically Thin NbSe2 through Higgs Mode Spectroscopy Authors: Yu Du, Gan Liu, Wei Ruan, Zhi Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ronghua Liu, Jian-Xin Li, and Xiaoxiang Xi Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066002 (2025) and supplemental material, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.066002 Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas , University of California at […]

Signatures of Chiral Superconductivity in Rhombohedral Graphene Authors: Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Zach Hadjri, Lihan Shi, Zhenghan Wu, Wei Xu, Yuxuan Yao, Armel A. Cotten, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Shenyong Ye, Muyang Zhou, Haoyang Liu, Gang Shi, Zhenqi Hua, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng Xiong, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Liang Fu, […]

Electrostatic-elastic coupling in colloidal crystals Authors: Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, and Rudolf Podgornik Europhysics Letters 148, 47001 (2024), DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ad8f5d Recommended with a commentary by Ram M. Adar , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_01

Generalized Hydrodynamic Description of the Page Curve–like Dynamics of a Freely Expanding Fermionic Gas Authors: Madhumita Saha, Manas Kulkarni, and Abhishek Dhar Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 230402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.230402 Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa , University of Tokyo |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_02