A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
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 carriersâ€, Nano Letters, 6, 424 (2006). (II) G. Nair and M.G. Bawendi: “Carrier Multiplication yields for CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals by transient photoluminescence spectroscopyâ€, 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
Density modulations in an elongated BEC released from a disordered potential. Authors: David Cl Ìement, Philippe Bouyer, Alain Aspect, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia. http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1984 Disorder-induced trapping versus anderson localization in Bose-Einstein condensates expanding in disordered potentials. Authors: L. Sanchez-Palencia, D. Cl Ìement, P. Lugan, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect. http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1774 Effect of interactions on the localization […]
Towards identification of a non-Abelian state: observation of a quarter of electron charge at ν = 5/2 quantum Hall state,Authors: M. Dolev, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, A. Stern, D. Mahaluhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0930 and Quasiparticle Tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν = 5/2,Authors: I. P. Radu, J. B. Miller, C. M. Marcus, M. A. Kastner, […]
Authors: Reem Jaafar, S. McHugh, Yoko Suzuki, M.P. Sarachik, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, H. Shtrikman, R. Bagai, G. Christou http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703448 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320 (2008) 695–698 Recommended with a commentary by Albert Migliori, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_February08_01