Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Self-Verifying Variational Quantum Simulation of the Lattice Schwinger Model Authors: Christian Kokail, Christine Maier, Rick van Bijnen, Tiff Brydges, Manoj K. Joshi, Petar Jurcevic, Christine A. Muschik, Pietro Silvi, Rainer Blatt, Christian F. Roos, and Peter Zoller arXiv:1810.03421 2. Probing quantum critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator Authors: Alexander Keesling, Ahmed Omran, Harry […]

Non-equilibrium systems have steady-state distributions and non-steady dynamics Author: Tanniemola B. Liverpool arXiv:1810.10980 Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen) and University of Oxford |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_03

Quantum coherence across bosonic superconductor-anomalous metal-insulator transitions Authors: Chao Yang, Yi Liu, Yang Wang, Liu Feng, Qianmei He, Jian Sun, Yue Tang, Chunchun Wu, Jie Xiong, Wanli Zhang, Xi Lin, Hong Yao, Haiwen Liu, Gustavo Fernandes, Jimmy Xu, James M. Valles Jr., Jian Wang, and Yanrong Li arXiv:1901.07706 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. […]

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

Chromatin remodelers couple inchworm motion with twist-defect formation to slide nucleosomal DNA Authors: Giovanni B. Brandani, Shoji Takada PlOS Comput Biol 14, e1006512 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_03

1. Universality of jamming of nonspherical particles Authors: C. Brito, H. Ikeda, P. Urbani, M. Wyart, F. Zamponi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 116, 11736-11741 (2018) 2. Translational and orientational glass transitions in the large-dimensional limit : a generalized replicated liquid theory and an application to patchy colloids Authors: H. […]

Fractional Excitonic Insulator Authors: Yichen Hu, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, C. L. Kane Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126601 (2018), arXiv:1806.05681 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)|

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, […]

1. Artifact Free Transient Near-Field Nanoscopy Authors: A. J. Sternbach, J. Hinton, T. Slusar, A. S. McLeod, M. K. Liu, A. Frenzel, M. Wagner, R. Iraheta, F. Keilmann, A. Leitenstorfer, M. Fogler, H.-T. Kim, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov Optics Express 25, 28589 (2017), arXiv:1706.08478 2. Photonic crystals for nano-light in moir graphene […]

How geometric frustration shapes twisted fibres, inside and out: competing morphologies of chiral filament assembly Authors: Douglas M. Hall and Gregory M. Grason Interface Focus 7: 20160140 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Roya Zandi, University of California, Riverside|View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_02

CPT-Symmetric Universe Authors: Latham Boyle, Kieran Finn, and Neil Turok Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 251301 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_01

Solving Statistical Mechanics using Variational Autoregressive Networks Authors: Dian Wu, Lei Wang, and Pan Zhang arXiv:1809.10606 Recommended with a commentary by Giuseppe Carleo, Flatiron Institute. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_02

1. Observation of a robust zero-energy bound state in iron-based superconductor Fe(Te,Se) Authors: J. X. Yin, Zheng Wu, J. H. Wang, Z. Y. Ye, Jing Gong, X. Y. Hou, Lei Shan, Ang Li, X. J. Liang, X. X. Wu, Li Jian, C.S. Ting, Z. Q. Wang, J. P. Hu, P. H. Hor, H. Ding and […]

Models and algorithms for the next generation of glass transition studies Authors: Andrea Ninarello, Ludovic Berthier, and Daniele Coslovich Phys. Rev. X 7, 021039 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Giulio Biroli, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_01

1. Monte Carlo Studies of Quantum Critical Metals Authors: E. Berg, S. Lederer, Y. Schattner, and S. Trebst Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, arXiv:1804.01988 2. Superconductivity mediated by quantum critical antiferromagnetic fluctuations: The rise and fall of hot spots Authors: X. Wang, Y. Schattner, E. Berg, and R. M. Fernandes Physical Review B 95, […]

1. Origin of Mott Insulating Behavior and Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Authors: Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, Ashvin Vishwanath, and T. Senthil arXiv:1803.09742, Phys. Rev. X 8, 031089 (2018) 2. Symmetry, Maximally Localized Wannier States, and a Low-Energy Model for Twisted Bilayer Graphene Narrow Bands Authors: Jian Kang and Oskar Vafek arXiv:1805.04918, Phys. Rev. […]

Bad metallic transport in a cold atom Fermi-Hubbard system Authors: Peter T. Brown, Debayan Mitra, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Reza Nourafkan, Alexis Reymbaut, Simon Bergeron, A.-M. S. Tremblay, Jure Kokalj, David A. Huse, Peter Schaus, and Waseem S. Bakr arXiv:1802.09456 Recommended with a commentary by Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_01

Spatial mapping of band bending in semiconductor devices using in situ quantum sensors Authors: D.A. Broadway, N. Dontschuk, A. Tsai, S. E. Lillie, C. T.-K. Lew, J. C. McCallum, B. C. Johnson, M. W. Doherty, A. Stacey, L. C. L. Hollenberg & J.-P. Tetienne Nature Electronics 1, 502–507 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Toeno […]

1. Particle-Hole Symmetry in the Fermion-Chern-Simons and Dirac Descriptions of a Half-Filled Landau Level Authors: Chong Wang, Nigel R. Cooper, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Ady Stern Phys. Rev. X 7, 031029 (2017) 2. Particle-hole symmetry and electromagnetic response of a half-filled Landau level Authors: Michael Levin and Dam Thanh Son Phys. Rev. B 95, 125120 […]

Strong coupling in conserved surface roughening: A new universality class? Authors: F. Caballero, C. Nardini, F. van Wijland, and M. E. Cates arXiv:1803.09525, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 020601 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_02