Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

1. Simplified derivations for high-dimensional convex learning problems associated with statistical learning Authors: David G. Clark, and Haim Sompolinsky arXiv.2412.01110, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.01110 2. Memorizing without overfitting: Bias, variance, and interpolation in overparameterized models Authors: Jason W. Rocks, and Pankaj Mehta Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013201 (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013201 Recommended with a commentary by Anirvan M. […]

Characterising transport in a quantum gas by measuring Drude weights Authors: Philipp Schüttelkopf, Mohammadamin Tajik, Nataliia Bazhan, Federica Cataldini, Si-Cong Ji, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Frederik Møller arXiv.2406.17569, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.17569 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2024_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2024_01

Evidence of striped electronic phases in a structurally modulated superlattice Authors: A. Devarakonda, A. Chen, S. Fang, D. Graf, M. Kriener, A. J. Akey, D. C. Bell, T. Suzuki, and J. G. Checkelsky Nature 631, 526-530 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07589-5 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University), Chaitanya Murthy (University of Rochester and […]

Enumeration of all superconducting circuits up to 5 nodes Authors: Eli J. Weissler, Mohit Bhat, Zhenxing Liu, and Joshua Combes arXiv:2410.18497, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.18497 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov , Delft University of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_01

1. The phonon thermal Hall angle in black Phosphorus Authors: Xiaokang Li, YoMachida,AlaskaSubedi, Zengwei Zhu, LiangLi, and Kamran Behnia Nature Communications 14, 1027, ( 2023), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36750-3 2. Discovery of universal phonon thermal Hall effect in crystals Authors: Xiaobo Jin, Xu Zhang, Wenbo Wan, Hanru Wang, Yihan Jiao, and Shiyan Li arXiv:2404.02863, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.02863 3. […]

Environment-Stored Memory in Active Nematics and Extra-Cellular Matrix Remodeling Authors: Ram M. Adar and Jean-François Joanny Physical Review Letters 133 (11), 118402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.118402 Recommended with a commentary by Kinjal Dasbiswas , University of California, Merced |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_03

DNA choreography: correlating mobility and organization of DNA across different resolutions from loops to chromosomes Authors: M. K. Pabba, J. Meyer, K. Celikay, L. Schermelleh, K. Rohr, and M. C. Cardoso Histochemistry and Cell Biology (2024) 162:109–131, DOI: 10.1007/s00418-024-02285-x Recommended with a commentary by Yuval Garini , Technion Israel Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| […]

Absence of Normal Heat Conduction in Strongly Disordered Interacting Quantum Chains Authors: Wojciech De Roeck, Lydia Giacomin, Francois Huveneers, and Oskar Prośniak arXiv:2408.04338, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.04338 Recommended with a commentary by Chris R. Laumann , Boston University and Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2024_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2024_02

1. Origin of chirality in transition-metal dichalcogenides Authors: Kwangrae Kim, Hyun-Woo J. Kim, Seunghyeok Ha, Hoon Kim, Jin-Kwang Kim, Jaehwon Kim, Hyunsung Kim, Junyoung Kwon, Jihoon Seol, Saegyeol Jung, Changyoung Kim, Ahmet Alatas, Ayman Said, Michael Merz, Matthieu Le Tacon, Jin Mo Bok, Ki-Seok Kim, and B. J. Kim arXiv:2312.11979, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.11979 2. Observation of […]

1. Extended Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Graphene/hBN Moiré Superlattices Authors: Z. Lu, T. Han, Y. Yao, J. Yang, J. Seo, L. Shi, S. Ye, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and L. Ju arXiv:2408.10203, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.10203 2. Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moiré pentalayer graphene Authors: D. Waters, A. Okounkova, […]