Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1.Precise quantization of anomalous Hall effect near zero magnetic field. Authors: A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, Xufeng Fu, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon. Phys.Rev.Lett. 114,187201(2015) 2.High-precision realization of robust quantum anomalous Hall state in a hard ferromagnetic topological insulator. Authors:Cui-Zu Chang, Weiwei Zhao, Duk Y.Kim, Haijun Zhang, Badih A. Assaf, Don […]

1.Coexistence of half-metallic itinerant ferromagnetism with local-moment antiferromagnetism in Ba0.60K0.40Mn2As2. Authors: A. Pandey, B. G. Ueland, S. Yeninas, A. Kreyssig, A. Sapkota, Yang Zhao, J. S. Helton, J.W. Lynn, R. J. McQueeney, Y. Furukawa, A. I. Goldman, and D. C. Johnston. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 047001(2013) 2.Itinerant ferromagnetism in the As 4p conduction band of […]

1.A bound on chaos. Authors: J. Maldacena, S. Shenker, and S. Stanford. arXiv:1503.01409 2.A simple model of quantum holography. Authors:A. Kitaev. KITP(part 1) KITP(part 2) Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore, UC Berkeley and LBNL. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_02

1.Selective buckling via states of self-stress in topological metamaterials. Authors: J. Paulose, A. Meunnissen, V. Vitelli. arXiv:1502.03396 2.Topological Acoustics. Authors:Zhaoju Yang, Fei Gao, Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin, Zhen Gao, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 114301 (2015) 3.Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials Authors:L.M. Nash, D. Kleckner, A. Read, V. Vitelli, A.M. Turner, […]

Algorithmic lattice kirigami: a route to pluripotent materials. Authors: Daniel M. Sussman, Yigil Cho, Toen Castle, Xingting Gong, Euiyeon Jung, Shu Yang, and Randall D. Kamien. arXiv:1503.07930 Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick, Soft Matter Program, Syracuse University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_01

An Aharonov-Bohm interferometer for determining Bloch band topology. Authors: L. Duca, T. Li, M. Reitter, I. Bloch, M. Schleier-Smith, U. Schneider. Science 347, 288 (2015) Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, OSU. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_02

1. Signature of the chiral anomaly in a Dirac semimetal: a current plume steered by a magnetic field. Authors: Jun Xiong, Satya K. Kushwaha, Tian Liang, Jason W. Krizan, Wudi Wang, R. J. Cava, N. P. Ong. arXiv:1503.08179 2. Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals Authors: D. T. Son and B. Z. […]

The Simplest Model of Jamming. Authors: Silvio Franz and Giorgio Parisi. arXiv:1501.03397 Recommended with a commentary by Robijn Bruinsma, UCLA. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_01

Electric Dipole Moments of Nanosolvated Acid Molecules in Water Clusters. Authors: Nicholas Guggemos, Petr Slavicek, and Vitaly V. Kresin. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043401(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_02

Observation of many-body localization of interacting fermions in a quasi-random optical lattice. Authors: Michael Schreiber, Sean S. Hodgman, Pranjal Bordia, Henrik P. Lu ?schen, Mark H. Fischer, Ronen Vosk, Ehud Altman, Ulrich Schneider, and Immanuel Bloch. arXiv:1501.05661 Recommended with a commentary by L. I. Glazman, Yale University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_03

Imprint of topological degeneracy in quasi-one-dimensional fractional quantum Hall states. Authors: Eran Sagi, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, and Bertrand Halperin. arXiv:1502.01665 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_01

Thermal Hall conductivity in the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Tb2Ti2O7. Authors: Max Hirschberger, Jason W. Krizan, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong. arXiv:1502.02006(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_02

Collective Dynamics of Dividing Chemotactic Cells. Authors: Anatolij Gelimson and Ramin Golestanian. Phys.Rev.Lett. 114,028101(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_03

Pressure and Phase Equilibria in Interacting Active Brownian Spheres. Authors: A. P. Solon, J. Stenhammar, R. Wittkowski, M. Kardar, Y. Kafri, M. E. Cates, J. Tailleur. arXiv:1412.5475 Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_01

1.Experimental observation of Weyl points. Authors: Ling Lu, Zhiyu Wang, Dexin Ye, Lixin Ran, Liang Fu, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljacic. arXiv:1502.03438 2.Experimental realization of a topological Weyl semimetal phase with Fermi arc surface states in TaAs. Authors: S.Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, N. Alidoust, M. Neupane, C. Zhang, R. Sankar, S.M. Huang, C.C. Lee, G. […]

1.Mott-Kondo Insulator Behavior in the Iron Oxychalcogenides. Authors: B. Freelon, Yu Hao Liu, Jeng-Lung Chen, L. Craco, M. S. Laad, S. Leoni, Jiaqi Chen, Li Tao, Hangdong Wang, R. Flauca, Z. Yamani, Minghu Fang, Chinglin Chang, J.H. Guo and Z. Hussain. arXiv:1501.00332 2.FeSe: a model system for Fe based superconductors. Authors: B. Büchner. KITP Program: […]

1.Time Reversal Invariant Topologically Insulating Circuits. Authors: Jia Ningyuan, Ariel Sommer, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon. arXiv:1309.0878 2.Topological properties of linear circuit lattices. Authors: Victor V. Albert, Leonid I. Glazman, Liang Jiang. arXiv:1410.1243 3.Spin-orbit-free Topological Insulators without Time-Reversal Symmetry Authors: A. Alexandradinata, Chen Fang, Matthew J. Gilbert, B. Andrei Bernevig. Phys.Rev.Lett. 113,116403(2014) Recommended with a commentary […]

Chromosome positioning from activity-based segregation. Authors: N. Ganai, S. Sengupta and G. Menon. Nucleic Acid Research 42,4145(2014) Recommended with a commentary by Jean-François Joanny , ESPCI, Paris |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_02

1.Epitaxy of SemiconductorSuperconductor nanowires. Authors: P. Krogstrup, N. L. B. Ziino, W. Chang, S. M. Albrecht, M. H. Madsen, E. Johnson, J. Nygard, C. M. Marcus and T. S. Jespersen. arXiv:1411.6254 2.Hard Gap in Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowires Authors: W. Chang, S. M. Albrecht, T. S. Jespersen, F. Kuemmeth, P. Krogstrup, J. Nygard, and C. M. […]

Conventional superconductivity at 190 K at high pressures. Authors: A.P. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, and I. A. Troyan. arXiv:1412.0460 Recommended with a commentary by Zachary Fisk, UC Irvine and J. D. Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_01