Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Squirmers in nematic liquid crystals: Guiding microswimmers by an anisotropic medium Authors: Juho S. Lintuvuori, Alois Würger, and Kevin Stratford arXiv:1705.02147 Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_03

1. Kinetics of biopolymerization on nucleic acid templates Authors: C. T. MacDonald, J. H. Gibbs and A. C. Pipkin Biopolymers, 6(1), pp.1-25 (1968) 2. Bethe solution for the dynamical-scaling exponent of the noisy Burgers equation Authors: Leh-Hun Gwa and Herbert Spohn Phys. Rev. A 46, 844 (1992) 3. Exactly Solvable Models for Many-Body Systems Far […]

1. Barnett effect in paramagnetic states Authors: Masao Ono, Hiroyuki Chudo, Kazuya Harii, Satoru Okayasu, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Ryo Takahashi, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Eiji Saitoh Phys. Rev. B 92, 174424 (2015) 2. Observation of Barnett fields in solids by nuclear magnetic resonance Authors: Hiroyuki Chudo, Masao Ono, Kazuya Harii, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Rie […]

Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system Authors: Soonwon Choi, Joonhee Choi, Renate Landig, Georg Kucsko, Hengyun Zhou, Junichi Isoya, Fedor Jelezko, Shinobu Onoda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Vedika Khemani, Curt von Keyserlingk, Norman Y. Yao, Eugene Demler, and Mikhail D. Lukin Nature 543, 221225 (2017), arXiv:1610.08057 Recommended with a commentary by Rahul […]

Theory of enhanced interlayer tunneling in optically driven high-Tc superconductors. Authors: J. Okamoto, A. Cavalleri, and L. Mathey. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227001 (2016), arXiv:1606.09276 Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_01

Active Brownian particles and run-and-tumble particles separate inside a maze. Authors: M. Khatami, K. Wolff, O. Pohl, M.R. Ejtehadi, and H. Stark. Scientific Reports 6, Article No: 37670 (2016) [doi:10.1038/srep37670], arXiv:1611.00191 Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Oxford University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02

Observation of Half-Quantum Vortices in Topological Superfluid 3-He. Authors: S. Autti, V. V. Dmitriev, J. T. Maskinen, A. A. Soldatov, G. E. Volovik, A. N. Yudin, V. V. Zavjalov and V. B. Eltsov. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 255301 (2016), arXiv:1508.02197 Recommended with a commentary by Tony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |View Commentary| DOI: […]

1. Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models. Authors: Benjamin B. Machta, Ricky Chachra, Mark K. Transtrum, and James P. Sethna. Science 342, 604-607 (2013) 2. PCA meets RG. Authors: Serena Bradde and William Bialek. arXiv:1610.09733 Recommended with a commentary by Ilya Nemenman, Emory University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_01

1. Experimental realization of a long-range antiferromagnet in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms. Authors: A. Mazurenko, C. S. Chiu, G. Ji, M. F. Parsons, M. Kanasz-Nagy, R. Schmidt, F. Grusdt, E. Demler, D. Greif, and M. Greiner. arXiv:1612.08436 Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_02

1. Pomeranchuk instability and response beyond the quasiparticle regime. Authors: Egor I. Kiselev, Mathias S. Scheurer, Peter Wölfle, and Jörg Schmalian. arXiv:1611.01442 2.Conservation and persistence of spin currents and their relation to the Lieb-Schulz-Mattis twist operators. Authors: N. Bray-Ali and Z. Nussinov. Phys. Rev. B 80, 012401 (2009) Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, […]

1. Consistency of Photoemission and Quantum Oscillations for Surface States of SmB6. Authors: J. D. Denlinger, Sooyoung Jang, G. Li, L. Chen, B. J. Lawson, T. Asaba, C. Tinsman, F. Yu, Kai Sun, J. W. Allen, C. Kurdak, Dae-Jong Kim, Z. Fisk, Lu Li. arXiv:1601.07408 2. Low-temperature conducting state in two candidate topological Kondo insulators: […]

1. High-Pressure Hydrogen Sulfide from First Principles: A Strongly Anharmonic Phonon-Mediated Superconductor. Authors: Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Chris J. Pickard, Joseph Nelson, Richard J. Needs, Yinwei Li, Hanyu Liu, Yunwei Zhang, Yanming Ma and Francesco Mauri. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 157004 (2015) 2. Perspective: Role of Structure Prediction in Materials Discovery and Design. Authors: Richard […]

1. Topological Acoustics. Authors: Zhaoju Yang, Fei Gao, Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin, Zhen Gao, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 114301 (2015) 2. Topological sound in active-liquid metamaterials. Authors: Anton Souslov, Benjamin C. van Zuiden, Denis Bartolo, and Vincenzo Vitelli. ArXiv: 1610.06873 Recommended with a commentary by M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University. […]

1. No-Enclave Percolation Corresponds to Holes in the Cluster Backbone. Authors: Hao Hu, Robert M. Ziff, and Youjin Deng. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 185701, 2016 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick and Greg Huber, ITP, Santa Barbara. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01

1. Perspective on the phase diagram of cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Authors: D. Rybicki, M. Jurkutat, S. Reichardt, C. Kapusta, and J. Haase. arXiv:1511.02408; Nature Communications 7, Article number: 11413 (2016) 2. Bulk superconductivity at 84 K in the strongly overdoped regime of cuprates. Authors: A. Gauzzi, Y. Klein, M. Nisula, M. Karppinen, P. K. Biswas, […]

1. Signatures of Dirac cones in a DMRG study of the Kagome Heisenberg model. Authors: Yin- Chen He, Michael P. Zaletel, Masaki Oshikawa, and Frank Pollmann. arXiv:1611.06238 2. Competing Spin Liquid Phases in the S=1/2 Heisenberg Model on the Kagome Lattice. Authors: Shenghan Jiang, Panjin Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Ying Ran. arXiv:1610.02024 Recommended with a […]

1. Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet. Author: S. Sachdev and J. Ye. Phys.Rev.Lett. 70, 3339 (1993) 2. A bound on chaos. Authors: J. Maldacena, S. H. Shenker, and D. Stanford. JHEP 8 (2016) 106, hep-th/1503.01409 Recommended with a commentary by Michael Mulligan, UC Riverside . |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03

1. Growth against entropy in bacterial metabolism: the phenotypic trade-off behind empirical growth rate distributions in E. coli. Author: Daniele De Martino, Fabrizio Capuani, and Andrea De Martino. Physical Biology 13, 036005 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Kirill Korolev, Boston University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02

1. Transport evidence for Fermi-arc-mediated chirality transfer in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2. Author: P. J. W. Moll, N. L. Nair, T. Helm, A. C. Potter, I. Kimchi, A. Vishwanath, J. G. Analytis. Nature 535, 266 (2016) 2. Current at a Distance and Resonant Transparency in Weyl Semimetals. Authors: Y. Baum, E. Berg, S. A. Parameswaran, […]

1. Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision. Author: B. Radha, A. Esfandiar, F. C. Wang, A. P. Rooney, K. Gopinad- han, A. Keerthi, A. Mishchenko, A. Janardanan, P. Blake, L. Fumagalli, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. Garaj, S. J. Haigh, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature19363 (2016) 2. Sieving hydrogen […]