Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Theory of liquid crystal elastomers and polymer networks: connection between neoclassical theory and differential geometry Authors: Thanh-Son Nguyen and Jonathan V. Selinger Eur. Phys. J. E (2017) 40: 76 Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_03

Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid Authors: Y. Kasahara, T. Ohnishi, Y. Mizukami, O. Tanaka, Sixiao Ma, K. Sugii, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, J. Nasu, Y. Motome, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda arXiv:1805.05022 Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB. |View Commentary […]

1. Many-body quantum chaos: Analytic connection to random matrix theory Authors: Pavel Kos, Marko Ljubotina, and Tomaž Prosen Phys. Rev. X 8, 021062 (2018) 2. Exact spectral form factor in a minimal model of many body quantum chaos Authors: Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen arXiv:1805.00931 Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, University […]

Imaging resonant dissipation from individual atomic defects in graphene Authors: Dorri Halbertal, Moshe Ben Shalom, Aviram Uri, Kousik Bagani, Alexander Y. Meltzer, Ido Marcus, Yuri Myasoedov, John Birkbeck, Leonid S. Levitov, Andre K. Geim, Eli Zeldov Science 358, 1303-1306 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: […]

Direct observation of incommensurate magnetism in Hubbard chains Authors: Guillaume Salomon, Joannis Koepsell, Jayadev Vijayan, Timon A. Hilker, Jacopo Nespolo, Lode Pollet, Immanuel Bloch and Christian Gross arXiv:1803.08892 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_02

Colloquium: Toward living matter with colloidal particles Authors: Zorana Zeravcic, Vinothan N. Manoharan, and Michael P. Brenner Reviews of Modern Physics 89, 031001 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_03

Fractal nematic colloids Authors: S. M. Hashemi, U. Jagodic?, M. R. Mozaffari, M. R. Ejtehadi, I. Mus?evic?, and M. Ravnik Nature Communications 8: 14026 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Jörn Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_01

1. Unveiling the superconducting mechanism of Ba0.51K0.49BiO3 Authors: C. H. P. Wen, H. C. Xu, Q. Yao, R. Peng, X. H. Niu, Q. Y. Chen, Z. T. Liu, D. W. Shen, Q. Song, X. Lou, Y. F. Fang, X. S. Liu, Y. H. Song, Y. J. Jiao, T. F. Duan, H. H. Wen, P. Dudin, […]

1. Correlated insulator behaviour at half filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices Authors: Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Nature 556, 80 (2018), arXiv:1802.00553 2. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices Authors: Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero […]

1. Ballistic edge states in bismuth nanowires revealed by SQUID interferometry Authors: Anil Murani, Alik Kasumov, Shamashis Sengupta, Yu A. Kasumov, V. T. Volkov, I. I. Khodos, F. Brisset, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Alexei Chepelianskii, Richard Deblock, Hélène Bouchiat, and Sophie Guéron Nature Communications 8, 15941 (2017) 2. Higher-order topology in bismuth Authors: Frank Schindler, Zhijun Wang, […]

Emergence of an enslaved phononic bandgap in a non-equilibrium pseudo-crystal Authors: Nicolas Bachelard, Chad Ropp, Marc Dubois, Rongkuo Zhao, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang Nat. Mat. 16, 808 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Jeremy England, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_02

High-resolution non-destructive three-dimensional imaging of integrated circuits Authors: Mirko Holler, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Esther H. R. Tsai, Roberto Dinapoli, Elisabeth Müller, Oliver Bunk, Jörg Raabe, and Gabriel Aeppli Nature 543, 402 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by J. B. Hastings, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_03

Cyclotron Orbits of Composite Fermions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime Authors: Insun Jo, Hao Deng, Yang Liu, L. N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, K.W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 016802 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by S. M. Girvin, Yale University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_01

Observation of a non-Abelian Yang Monopole: From New Chern Numbers to a Topological Transition Authors: Seiji Sugawa, Francisco Salces-Carcoba, Abigail R. Perry, Yuchen Yue, and Ian B. Spielman arXiv:1610.06228 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_02

1. Combinatorial design of textured mechanical metamaterials Authors: Corentin Coulais, Eial Teomy, Koen de Reus, Yair Shokef and Martin van Hecke Nature 535, 529 – 532 (2016) 2. Designing self-powered materials systems that perform pattern recognition Authors: Yan Fang, Victor V. Yashin, Steven P. Levitan and Anna C. Balazs Chem. Commun., 53, 7692 (2017) Recommended […]

1. Observation of topological superconductivity on the surface of iron-based superconductor Authors: Peng Zhang, Koichiro Yaji, Takahiro Hashimoto, Yuichi Ota, Takeshi Kondo, Kozo Okazaki, Zhijun Wang, Jinsheng Wen, G. D. Gu, Hong Ding, and Shik Shin arXiv:1706.05163 2. Observation of pristine Majorana bound state in iron-based superconductor Authors: Dongfei Wang, Lingyuan Kong, Peng Fan, Hui […]

Determining a local Hamiltonian from a single eigenstate Authors: Xiao-Liang Qi and Daniel Ranard arXiv:1712.01850 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_02

The smectic order of wrinkles Authors: H. Aharoni, D. V. Todorova, O. Albarrán, L. Goehring, R. D. Kamien and E. Katifori Nature Communications 8, 15809 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts Amherst. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_01

1. Observed quantization of anyonic heat flow Authors: M. Banerjee, M. Heiblum, A. Rosenblatt, Y. Oreg, D. E. Feldman, A. Stern, and V. Umansky Nature 545, 77 (2017) 2. Observation of half-integer thermal Hall conductance Authors: M. Banerjee, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, D. E. Feldman, Y. Oreg, and A. Stern arXiv:1710.00492 Recommended with a commentary […]

1. Particle-hole symmetry reveals failed superconductivity in the metallic phase of two-dimensional superconducting films Authors: N. P. Breznay and A. Kapitulnik Science Advances 3 no.9, (2017) 2. A Bose metal has no cyclotron resonance Authors: Y. Wang, I. Tamir, D. Shahar, and N. P. Armitage arXiv:1708:01908 Recommended with a commentary by Michael Mulligan, University of […]