Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates Authors: M. Hepting, D. Li, C. J. Jia, H. Lu, E. Paris, Y. Tseng, X. Feng, M. Osada, E. Been, Y. Hikita, Y.-D. Chuang, Z. Hussain, K. J. Zhou, A. Nag, M. Garcia-Fernandez, M. Rossi, H. Y. Huang, D. J. Huang, Z. X. Shen, […]

Odd-frequency spin-triplet instability in disordered electron liquid Authors: Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Alexander M. Finkel’stein arXiv:1912.04258 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_03

1. Quantum chaos challenges many-body localization Authors: J. Šuntajs, J. Bonča, T. Prosen, and L. Vidmar arXiv:1905.06345 2. Distinguishing localization from chaos: challenges in finite-size systems Authors: D. A. Abanin, J. H. Bardarson, G. De Tomasi, S. Gopalakrishnan, V. Khemani, S. A. Parameswaran, F. Pollmann, A. C. Potter, M. Serbyn, and R. Vasseur arXiv:1911.04501 3. […]

1. Umbilic Lines in Orientational Order Authors: Thomas Machon and Gareth P. Alexander Phys. Rev. X 6, 011033 (2016); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.011033 2. Interpretation of saddle-splay and the Oseen-Frank free energy in liquid crystals Author: Jonathan V. Selinger Liquid Cryst. Rev. 6, 129-142 (2019); arXiv:1901.06306 3. Uniform distortions and generalized elasticity of liquid crystals Author: Epifanio […]

Correlated rigidity percolation and colloidal gels Authors: Shang Zhang, Leyou Zhang, Mehdi Bouzid, D. Zeb Rocklin, Emanuela Del Gado, and Xiaoming Mao Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 33 (2019) Recommended with a commentary by Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_01

Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor Authors: Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, … (73 more authors) … Hartmut Neven, and John Martinis Nature 574, 505–510 (2019) Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo, Forschungszentrum Jülich |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_02

1. Magnetic-field-induced quantized anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 Authors: Yujun Deng, Yijun Yu, Meng Zhu Shi, Jing Wang, Xian Hui Chen and Yuanbo Zhang arXiv:1904.11468 2. Quantum phase transition from axion insulator to Chern insulator in MnBi2Te4 Authors: Chang Liu, Yongchao Wang, Hao Li, Yang Wu, Yaoxin Li, Jiaheng Li, Ke […]

Gibbs and Boltzmann Entropy in Classical and Quantum Mechanics Authors: Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghi arXiv:1903.11870 Recommended with a commentary by Deepak Dhar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01

1. Two Diverging Length Scales in the Structure of Jammed Packings Authors: D. Hexner, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 115501 (2018) 2. Can a Large Packing be Assembled from Smaller Ones? Authors: D. Hexner, P. Urbani, and F. Zamponi Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 068003 (2019) Recommended with a commentary […]

1. The Hierarchy of Excitation Lifetimes in Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases Authors: Patrick J. Ledwith, Haoyu Guo, and Leonid Levitov arXiv:1905.03751 2. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D Electron Systems Authors: Lev Haldar Kendrick, Patrick J. Ledwith, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov arXiv:1810.07588 3. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D […]

Computing spectra without solving eigenvalue problems Authors: Douglas N. Arnold, Guy David, Marcel Filoche, David Jerison, and Svitlana Mayboroda SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 41, B69 (2019); DOI: 10.1137/17M1156721 arXiv:1711.04888 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01

1. Observation of a symmetry-protected topological phase of interacting bosons with Rydberg atoms Authors: Sylvain de Léséleuc, Vincent Lienhard, Pascal Scholl, Daniel Barredo, Sebastian Weber, Nicolai Lang, Hans Peter Büchler, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys Science 365, 775–780 (2019); DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9105 arXiv:1810.13286 2. Synthetic three-dimensional atomic structures assembled atom by atom Authors: Daniel Barredo, Vincent […]

1. Design principles for nonequilibrium self assembly Authors: Michael Nguyen and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 113, 14231-14236(2016); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1609983113 2. Dissipation induced transitions in elastic strings Authors: Michael Nguyen and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan arXiv:1803.04368 Recommended with a commentary by Michael F. Hagan, Brandeis University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_03https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_03

1. Melting of the Vortex Lattice through Intermediate Hexatic Fluid in an a-MoGe Thin Film Authors: I. Roy, S. Dutta, A. N. R. Choudhury, S. Basistha, I. Maccari, S. Mandal, J. Jesudasan, V. Bagwe, C. Castellani, L. Benfatto, and P. Raychaudhuri Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 047001 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047001 2. Evidence of Quantum Vortex Fluid […]

1. Delayed instabilities in viscoelastic solids through a metric description Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati arXiv:1711.09491 2. The metric description of viscoelasticity and instabilities in viscoelastic solids Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati arXiv:1806.01237 Recommended with a commentary by Sam Dillavou and Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02

Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on SrTiO3 Authors: Louis Veyrat, Corentin Déprez, Alexis Coissard, Xiaoxi Li, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Han, Benjamin A. Piot, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé arXiv:1907.02299 Recommended with a commentary by Leonid I. Glazman, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03

1. Automated tuning of inter-dot tunnel couplings in quantum dot arrays Authors: C. J. van Diepen, P. T. Eendebak, B. T. Buijtendorp, U. Mukhopadhyay, T. Fujita, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, and L. M. K. Vandersypen Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 033101 (2018), DOI:10.1063/1.5031034 (code: https://github.com/QuTech-Delft/qtt) 2. Efficiently measuring a quantum device using machine learning Authors: D.T. […]

1. Signature of Dispersing 1D Majorana Channels in an Iron-based Superconductor Authors: Zhenyu Wang, Jorge Olivares Rodriguez, Martin Graham, G. D. Gu, Taylor Hughes, Dirk K. Morr, and Vidya Madhavan arXiv:1903.00515 2. Evidence for Helical Hinge Zero Modes in an Fe-Based Superconductor Authors: Mason J. Gray, Josef Freudenstein, Shu Yang F. Zhao, Ryan O’Connor, Samuel […]

Memories from the ergodic phase: the awkward dynamics of spherical mixed p-spin models Authors: G. Folena, S. Franz, and F. Ricci-Tersenghi arXiv:1903.01421 Recommended with a commentary by Francesco Zamponi, Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_03

Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles Authors: Tais Gorkhover, Anatoli Ulmer, Ken Ferguson, Max Bucher, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Johan Bielecki, Tomas Ekeberg, Max F. Hantke, Benedikt J. Daurer, Carl Nettelblad, Jakob Andreasson, Anton Barty, Petr Bruza, Sebastian Carron, Dirk Hasse, Jacek Krzywinski, Daniel S. D. Larsson, Andrew Morgan, Kerstin Mühlig, Maria […]