Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Specific heat Measurements: “Fully gapped superconducting state based on a high normal state quasiparticle density of states in Ba0.6 K0.4 Fe2 As2 single crystals,” G. Mu, H. Luo, Z. Wang, L. Shan, C. Ren and H.H. Wen. arXiv:0808.2941. 2. ARPES Measurements:“Observation of Fermi surface-dependent nodeless superconduct- ing gaps in Ba0.6 K0.4 Fe2 As2 ,” […]

Authors: Brian P. Tighe, Adrianne R. T. van Eerd, and Thijs J. H. Vlugt arXiv:0803.0907, Phys. Rev. Lett, 100, 238001 (2008) Recommended with Commentary by R.P. Behringer, Duke University | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_Sept08_01

Structure from Fleeting Illumination of Faint Spinning Objects in Flight with Application to Single Molecules Authors: Russell Fung, Valentin Shneerson, Dilano K. Saldin, and Abbas Ourmazd arXiv: 0806.2341v1 [physics.bio-ph] (2008) Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, and Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science […]

1. Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases Authors: Bloch, J. Dalibard and W. Zwerger, arXiv:0704.3011; to be published in Rev. Mod. Phys. 2. A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice Authors: Robert Jördens, Niels Strohmaier, Kenneth Günter, Henning Moritz, and Tilman Esslinger, arXiv:0804.4009v1, Nature 455 204 (2008). 3. Metallic and Insulating Phases of […]

Coupling of Spin and Orbital Motion of Electrons in Carbon Nanotubes Authors: F. Kuemmeth, S. Ilani, D. C. Ralph, and P. L. McEuen arXiv:0802.1351, Nature v. 452, 448-452 (27 March 2008) Recommended with a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |

Nonequilibrium Fluctuation Relation for Sheared Micellar Gel in a Jammed State Authors: Sayantan Majumdar and A.K. Sood Phys Rev Lett 101, 078301 (2008) Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_August08_2

(I) R.D. Schaller, M. Sykora, J.F. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov: “Seven excitons at the cost of one: redefining the limits for conversion efficiency of photons into charge carriers”, Nano Letters, 6, 424 (2006). (II) G. Nair and M.G. Bawendi: “Carrier Multiplication yields for CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals by transient photoluminescence spectroscopy”, arXiv.org :0708.3866, Phys. Rev. […]

Authors: Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, P. Sengupta, C. D. Batista, S. Francoual, E. Palm, T. Murphy, N. Marcano, H. A. Dabkowska, and B. D. Gaulin ArXiv.0707.2075 Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_July08_01

Authors: D. Hsieh, D. Qian, L. Wray, Y. Xia, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan. Nature 454, 970 (2008) Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_July08_02

G. I. Ogilvie and A. T. Potter Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074503 (2008) Recommended with a commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University | View Commentary | JCCM_July08_03

Authors: Joerg Schumacher http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1634v1 [physics.flu-dyn], Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 (2008) 134502 Recommended with a commentary by Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen | View Commentary | JCCM_June08_01

Authors: R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A.N. Grigorenko, K.S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, A. K. Geim. http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3718 Science 320, 1308 (2008). Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary | JCCM_June08_02

Nature of the enigmatic pseudogap state: novel magnetic order in superconducting HgBa2CuO4+d Authors: Y. Li, V. Balédent, N. Barisic, Y. Cho, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, G. Yu, X. Zhao, P. Bourges, and M. Greven, http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2959 and Thermodynamic signature of a phase transition to the pseudogap phase of YBa2 Cu3 Ox high-Tc superconductor Authors: B. Leridon, […]

Authors: Dirk Dietzel, Claudia Ritter, Tristan Monninghoff, Harald Fuchs, Andre Schirmeisen, and Udo D. Schwarz arXiv:0805.2448v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] Recommended with a commentary by J. Fineberg, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_May08_01

Commentary on “Spontaneously modulated spin textures in a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate” Authors: M. Vengalattore, S. R. Leslie, J. Guzman, D. M. Stamper-Kurn arXiv:0712.4182, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170403 (2008), Recommended with a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_May08_02

Authors: Nikolaos Tombros, Csaba Jozsa, Mihaita Popinciuc, Harry T. Jonkman, Bart J. van Wees, arXiv:0706.1948, Nature 448, 571-574 (2007). Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_May08_03

About two articles per day in the last month on arXiv.org on the subject of Fe-pnictide Superconductors, some of them referred in the text of the commentary below. Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |

Authors: M. Nakamura, A. Sawa, H. Sato, H. Akoh, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura, arXiv:cond-mat/0702351v1; Phys. Rev. B 75, 155103 (2007) Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo | View Commentary (pdf) |

Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge Authors: Margitta Dathe, Heike Nikolenko, Jana Meyer, Michael Beyermann, and Michael Bienert FEBS Letters 501, 146-150 (2001) and Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides Authors: Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101-1–16801-4 (2007) Recommended with a commentary […]

Authors: H. Matsubara, S. Yoshimoto, H. Saito, Y. Jianglin, Y. Tanaka and S. Noda. Science 319, 445 (2008) Recommended with a commentary by Stephen Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_Mar08_01