Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Superconductivity near 80 Kelvin in single crystals of La3Ni2O7 under pressure Authors: H. Sun, M. Huo, X. Hu, J. Li, Y. Han, L. Tang, Z. Mao, P. Yang, B. Wang, J. G. Cheng, D.-X. Yao, G.-M. Zhang, and M. Wang Nature 621, 493 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06408-7 Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si , Rice […]

Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions as the Organizing Principle of a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet Authors: Alexander Wietek and Sylvain Capponi and Andreas M. Läuchli arXiv:2303.01585; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.01585 Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

1. Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures Authors: Zhiren Zheng, Qiong Ma, Zhen Bi, Sergio de la Barrera, Ming-Hao Liu, Nannan Mao, Yang Zhang, Natasha Kiper, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jing Kong, William A. Tisdale, Ray Ashoori, Nuh Gedik, Liang Fu, Su-Yang Xu, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Nature 588, 71–76 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2970-9 2. Giant ferroelectric polarization […]

Nonreciprocal interactions give rise to fast cilium synchronisation in finite systems Authors: David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan PNAS 120, 40, e2307279120 (2023); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307279120 Recommended with a commentary by Bryan VanSaders , Drexel University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2023_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2023_03

Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry Authors: Haidong Tian, Xueshi Gao, Yuxin Zhang, Shi Che, Tianyi Xu, Patrick Cheung, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mohit Randeria, Fan Zhang, Chun Ning Lau, and Marc W. Bockrath Nature 614, 440 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05576-2 arXiv:2112.13401 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Leiden University […]

1. Anisotropy as a diagnostic test for distinct tensor-network wave functions of integer- and half-integer-spin Kitaev quantum spin liquids Authors: Hyun-Yong Lee, Takafumi Suzuki, Yong Baek Kim, and Naoki Kawashima Phys. Rev. B 104, 024417 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024417 2. Z2 Spin Liquids in the Higher Spin-S Kitaev Honeycomb Model: An Exact Deconfined Z2 Gauge Structure […]

1. Single electron-spin-resonance detection by microwave photon counting Authors: Z. Wang, L. Balembois, M. M. Rančić, E. Billaud, M. Le Dantec, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Bertaina, T. Chanelière, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin Nature 619, 276–281 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06097-2 2. Practical Single Microwave Photon Counter with 10-22 W/√Hz sensitivity Authors: […]

Self-organisation of mortal filaments: the role of FtsZ treadmilling in bacterial division ring formation Authors: Christian Vanhille-Campos, Kevin D. Whitley, Philipp Radler, Martin Loose, Séamus Holden, and Anđela Šarić bioRxiv 2023.05.08.539808; DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.08.539808 Recommended with a commentary by Karsten Kruse , Université de Genève |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2023_02 […]

Proximate deconfined quantum critical point in SrCu2(BO3)2 Authors: Yi Cui, Lu Liu, Huihang Lin, Kai-Hsin Wu, Wenshan Hong, Xuefei Liu, Cong Li, Ze Hu, Ning Xi, Shiliang Li, Rong Yu, Anders W. Sandvik, and Weiqiang Yu Science 380, 1179 (2023); DOI: 10.1126/science.adc9487 Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne […]

1. Evidence for chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions Authors: Hadrien Vignaud, David Perconte, Wenmin Yang, Bilal Kousar, Edouard Wagner, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hervé Courtois, Zheng Han, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé arXiv:2305.01766; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.01766 2. Induced superconducting correlations in the quantum anomalous Hall insulator Authors: Anjana Uday, Gertjan Lippertz, Kristof […]

Onsager regression characterizes living systems in passive measurements Authors: Till M. Muenker, Gabriel Knotz, Matthias Krüger, and Timo Betz bioRxiv 2022.05.15.491928; DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.15.491928 Recommended with a commentary by Pierre Ronceray, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM, Turing Center for Living Systems |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2023_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2023_02

1. Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor Authors: Google Quantum AI and Collaborators Nature 618, 264 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05954-4 2. Digital Simulation of Projective Non-Abelian Anyons with 68 Superconducting Qubits Authors: Shibo Xu et al. Chinese Physics Letters, 40, 060301, (2023); DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/40/6/060301 3. Creation of Non-Abelian Topological Order and Anyons on […]

Fabry-Perot interferometry at the ν = 2/5 fractional quantum Hall state Authors: James Nakamura, Shuang Liang, Geoffrey C. Gardner, and Michael J. Manfra arXiv:2304.12415; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.12415 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University and University of Oxford), and Charles M. Marcus (University of Washington and University of Copenhagen) |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

1. Signatures of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted MoTe2 Bilayer Authors: Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson, Chong Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, William Holtzmann, Yinong Zhang, Fengren Fan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, Liang Fu, Di Xiao, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu Nature (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06289-w arXiv:2304.08470; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08470 2. Integer […]

Self-organized intracellular twisters Authors: Sayantan Dutta, Reza Farhadifar, Wen Lu, Gokberk kabacaoglu, Robert Blackwell, David B Stein, Margot Lakonishok, Vladimir I. Gelfand, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, and Michael J. Shelley arXiv:2304.02112; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.02112 Recommended with a commentary by Massimo Vergassola, CNRS and École Normale Supérieure, Paris |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

Kagomé quantum oscillations in graphene superlattices Authors: Folkert K. de Vries, Sergey Slizovskiy, Petar Tomić, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Aitor Garcia-Ruiz, Giulia Zheng, Elías Portolés, Leonid A. Ponomarenko, Andre K. Geim, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vladimir Fal’ko, Klaus Ensslin, Thomas Ihn, and Peter Rickhaus arXiv:2303.06403; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.06403 Recommended with a commentary by Nigel Cooper, University of […]

Path instability of an air bubble rising in water Authors: Miguel A. Herrada and Jens G. Eggers Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 120, e221683012 (2023); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216830120 Recommended with a commentary by Luca Giomi, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2023_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2023_02

1. Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Myungchul Oh, Kevin P. Nuckolls, Dillon Wong, Ryan L. Lee, Xiaomeng Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ali Yazdani Nature 600, 240–245 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04121-x arXiv:2109.13944 ; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2109.13944 2. Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene Authors: Hyunjin Kim, Youngjoon Choi, Cyprian Lewandowski, […]