Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

1. Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K in Lanthanum superhydride at megabar pressures Authors: Maddury Somayazulu, Muhtar Ahart, Ajay K Mishra, Zachary M. Geballe, Maria Baldini, Yue Meng, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Russell J. Hemley arXiv:1808.07695 2. Superconductivity at 215 K in Lanthanum hydride at high pressures Authors: A. P. Drozdov, V. S. Minkov, S. […]

Localization in fractonic random circuits Authors: Shriya Pai, Michael Pretko, and Rahul M. Nandkishore arXiv:1807.09776 Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_01

Langevin Dynamics with Space-Time Periodic Nonequilibrium Forcing Authors: R. Joubaud, G. A. Pavliotis, and G. Stoltz Journal of Statistical Physics, v. 158, n. 1, pp. 1-36, 2015 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_02

Pomeranchuk instability of composite Fermi liquid Authors: K. Lee, J. Shao, E-A Kim, F.D.M. Haldane, and E. H. Rezai arXiv:1802.08261 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_03

1. Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit Authors: B. Huang, G. Clark, E. Navarro-Moratalla, D. R. Klein, R. Cheng, K. L. Seyler, D. Zhong, E. Schmidgall, M. A. McGuire, D. H. Cobden, W. Yao, Di Xiao, P. Jarillo-Herrero, and X. Xu Nature 546, 270 (2017) 2. Giant tunneling […]

Tunable excitons in bilayer graphene Authors: Long Ju, Lei Wang, Ting Cao, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Steven G. Louie, Farhan Rana, Jiwoong Park, James Hone, Feng Wang, and Paul L. McEuen Science 358, 1314 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_02