Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Stacked endoplasmic reticulum sheets are connected by helicoidal membrane motifs. Authors: M. Terasaki, T. Shemesh, N. Kasthuri, R. W. Klemm, R. Schalek, K. J. Hayworth, A. R. Hand, M. Yankova, G. Huber, J. W. Lichtman, T. A. Rapoport, and M. M. Kozlov. Cell 154, 285(2013) 2. Terasaki spiral ramps in the rough endoplasmic reticulum […]

Novel Itinerant Antiferromagnet TiAu. Authors: E. Svanidze, Jiakui K. Wang, T. Besara,L.Liu,Q. Huang,T. Siegrist, B. Frandsen,J. W. Lynn, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Monika Barbara Gamza, M. C. Aronson, Y. J. Uemura, and E. Morosan. arXiv:1409.0811 Recommended with a commentary by Andy Schofield, University of Birmingham, UK |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_03

Composite fermions waltz to the tune of a Wigner crystal. Authors: Y. Liu, H. Deng, M. Shayegan, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, K.W. Baldwin. arXiv:1410.3435 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_01

Stabilizing colloidal crystals by leveraging void distributions. Authors: Nathan A. Mahynski, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Dong Meng, and Sanat K. Kumar. Nature Communications 5,4472(2014) Recommended with a commentary by Marjolein Dijkstra, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_02

Robust electron pairing in the integer quantum Hall effect regime. Authors: H.K. Choi, I. Sivan, A. Rosenblatt, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, D. Mahalu. arXiv:1409.4427v1 Recommended with a commentary by Felix von Oppen, Freie Universität Berlin |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_03

Experimental realization of the topological Haldane model. Authors: G. Jotzu, M. Messer, R. Desbuquois, M. Lebrat, T. Uehlinger, D. Greif, and T. Esslinger. arXiv:1406.7874v1 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, OSU |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_01

Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor Authors: Stevan Nadj-Perge, Ilya K. Drozdov, Jian Li, Hua Chen, Sangjun Jeon, Jungpil Seo, Allan H. MacDonald, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Ali Yazdani Science 346, 602 (2014) Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_02

Quorum sensing allows T cells to discriminate between self and nonself Authors: Thomas Charles Butler, Mehran Kardar, and Arup K. Chakraborty Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110, 11833-11838 (2013). Recommended with a commentary by Alex Levine, UCLA |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_03

On the granular stress-geometry equation Authors: Eric DeGiuli and Christian Schoof Europhysics Letters 105, 28001 (2014) Recommended with a commentary by Sumantra Sarkar and Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_01

Detecting Topological Currents in Graphene Superlattices Authors: R. V. Gorbachev, J. C. W. Song, G. L. Yu, A. V. Kretinin, F. Withers, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, L. S. Levitov, and A. K. Geim arXiv: 1409.0113 Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, CSIC |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_02

Criterion for stability of Goldstone Modes and Fermi Liquid behavior in a metal with broken symmetry Authors: Haruki Watanabe and Ashvin Vishwanath arXiv: 1404.3728 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_03

Two phase transitions induced by a magnetic field in graphite Authors: Benoît Fauqué, David LeBoeuf, Baptiste Vignolle, Marc Nardone, Cyril Proust, Kamran Behnia arXiv: 1303.4074, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 266601 (2013) Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, Caltech |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_01

Trajectory of Anomalous Hall Effect toward the Quantized State in a Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator Authors: J. G. Checkelsky, B. Yoshimi, K. S. Takahashi, Y. Kozuka, J. Falson, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura arXiv: 1406.7450 Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_02

Lyotropic Active Nematics Authors: Matthew L. Blow, Sumesh P. Thampi, and Julia M. Yeomans arXiv:1407.7493 Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, , Kent State University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_03

1. Non-Fermi liquid and topological states with strong spin-orbit coupling Authors: E-G. Moon, C. Xu, Y. B. Kim, and L. Balents Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 206401 (2013) 2. Superconductivity on the brink of spin-charge order in doped honeycomb bilayer Authors: O. Vafek, J. M. Murry, and V. Cvetkovic Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147002 (2014) 3. […]

1) Aggregation and Segregation of Confined Active Particles Authors: Xingbo Yang, M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti arXiv:1403.0697, Soft Matter (2014) 2) Dynamics of Self-Propelled Particles Under Strong Confinement Authors: Yaouen Fily, Aparna Baskaran, Michael F. Hagan arXiv:1402.5583, Soft Matter, 10, 5609-5617 (2014) Recommended with a commentary by Charles Reichhardt and Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos […]

Transport near a quantum critical point in BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 Authors: James G. Analytis, H-H. Kuo, Ross D. McDonald, Mark Wartenbe, P.M.C. Rourke, N. E. Hussey, and I. R. Fisher Nature Physics 10, 194–197 (2014) Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si, Rice University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2014_03

Fractal free energy landscapes in structural glasses. Authors: P. Charbonneau, J. Kurchan, G. Parisi, P. Urbani and F. Zamponi. Nat. Com. 5, 3725 (2014) Recommended with a commentary by Ariel Amir, Harvard University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2014_01

Multiple transient memories in experiments on sheared non-Brownian suspensions. Authors: Joseph D. Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, and Sidney R. Nagel. arxiv:1404.4117v1(2014) Recommended with a commentary by A. Alan Middleton, Syracuse University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2014_02

One-dimensional Topological Edge States of Bismuth Bilayers. Authors: Ilya K. Drozdov, A. Alexandradinata, Sangjun Jeon, Stevan Nadj-Perge, Huiwen Ji, R. J. Cava, B. A. Bernevig, and Ali Yazdani. arXiv:1404.2598(2014) Recommended with a commentary by L. I. Glazman, Yale University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2014_03