Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Observation of superconducting vortices carrying a temperature-dependent fraction of the flux quantum Authors: Yusuke Iguchi, Ruby Shi, Kunihiro Kihou, Chul-Ho Lee, Vadim Grinenko, Egor Babaev, and Kathryn A. Moler arXiv:2301.12368; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.12368 Recommended with a commentary by Jung Hoon Han, Sungkyunkwan University and Patrick A. Lee, MIT |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited […]

Informational active matter Authors: Bryan VanSaders and Vincenzo Vitelli arXiv:2302.07402; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.07402 Recommended with a commentary by Stefano Martiniani, New York University View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2023_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2023_03

Picoscale structural insight into superconductivity of monolayer FeSe/SrTiO3 Authors: Rui Peng, Ke Zou, M. G. Han, Stephen D. Albright, Hawoong Hong, Claudia Lau, H. C. Xu, Yimei Zhu, F. J. Walker, and C. H. Ahn Sci. Adv. 6, eaay4517 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4517 Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, National Tsinghua University |View Commentary (pdf)| […]

1. Effects of topological constraints on linked ring polymers in solvents of varying quality Authors: Z. Dehaghani, I. Chubak, C. Likos, and M. Ejtehadi Soft Matter 16, p. 3029 (2020); DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02374G 2. Circular Polycatenanes: Supramolecular Structures with Topologically Tunable Properties Authors: L. Tubiana, F. Ferrari, and E. Orlandini Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 227801 (2022); […]

Elastocaloric determination of the phase diagram of Sr2RuO4 Authors: Y.-S. Li, M. Garst, J. Schmalian, S. Ghosh, N. Kikugawa, D. A. Sokolov, C. W. Hicks, F. Jerzembeck, M. S. Ikeda, Z. Hu, B. J. Ramshaw, A. W. Rost, M. Nicklas, and A. P. Mackenzie Nature 607, 276 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04820-z Recommended with a commentary by […]

Quantum chaos challenges many-body localization Authors: Jan Šuntajs, Janez Bonča, Tomaž Prosen, and Lev Vidmar Phys. Rev. E 102, 062144 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.062144 Recommended with a commentary by Dries Sels (New York University & Flatiron Institute) and Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University) |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_01

Uncovering conformal symmetry in the 3D Ising transition: State-operator correspondence from a fuzzy sphere regularization Authors: Wei Zhu, Chao Han, Emilie Huffman, Johannes S. Hofmann, and Yin-Chen He arXiv:2210.13482; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.13482 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_02

Nonmutual torques and the unimportance of motility for long-range order in two-dimensional flocks Authors: Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi, Jitendra Kethapelli, Rahul Chajwa, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Ananyo Maitra Phys. Rev. E 101, 052601 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.052601 Recommended with a commentary by Alexandre Solon, Sorbonne Université and CNRS |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

Gate-tunable heavy fermions in a moiré Kondo lattice Authors: Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao, Zhongdong Han, Kaifei Kang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kin Fai Mak, and Jie Shan arXiv:2211.00263; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2211.00263 Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2022_02

1. Finding two-level systems in glasses through machine learning Authors: Simone Ciarella, Dmytro Khomenko, Ludovic Berthier, Felix C. Mocanu, David R. Reichman, Camille Scalliet, and Francesco Zamponi arXiv:2212.05582; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.05582 2. Depletion of two-Level systems in ultrastable computer-generated glasses Authors: Dmytro Khomenko, Camille Scalliet, Ludovic Berthier, David R. Reichman, and Francesco Zamponi Phys. Rev. Lett. […]

Extended Charge Layers in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Nanocapacitors Revealed by Operando Electron Holography Authors: C. Gatel, R. Serra, K. Gruel, A. Masseboeuf, L. Chapuis, R. Cours, L. Zhang, B. Warot-Fonrose, and M. J. Hÿtch Physical Review Letters 129, 137701 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.137701 Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

1. Ionic liquids behave as dilute electrolyte solutions Authors: M. A. Gebbie, M. Valtiner, X. Banquy, E. T. Fox, W. A. Henderson, and J. N. Israelachvili Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 110, 9674 (2013); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307871110 2. The electrostatic screening length in concentrated electrolytes increases with concentration Authors: A. M. Smith, A. A. Lee, and […]

A Quantum Inspired Approach to Exploit Turbulence Structures Authors: Nikita Gourianov, Michael Lubasch, Sergey Dolgov, Quincy Y. van den Berg, Hessam Babaee, Peyman Givi, Martin Kiffner, and Dieter Jaksch Nature Computational Science 2, 30–37 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s43588-021-00181-1 Recommended with a commentary by E. Miles Stoudenmire, Flatiron Institute |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited […]

1. Monitored Quantum Dynamics of the Kitaev Spin Liquid Authors: Ali Lavasani, Zhu-Xi Luo, and Sagar Vijay arXiv:2207.02877; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.02877 2. Topology, criticality, and dynamically generated qubits in a stochastic measurement-only Kitaev model Authors: Adithya Sriram, Tibor Rakovsky, Vedika Khemani, and Matteo Ippoliti arXiv:2207.07096; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.07096 Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of […]

1. Experimental signature of the parity anomaly in a semi-magnetic topological insulator Authors: M. Mogi, Y. Okamura, M. Kawamura, R. Yoshimi, K. Yasuda, A. Tsukazaki, K. S. Takahashi, T. Morimoto, N. Nagaosa, M. Kawasaki, Y. Takahashi, and Y. Tokura Nature Physics 18, 390 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01490-y arXiv:2105.04127 2. Half-quantized Hall effect and power law decay […]

1. Freely Flowing Currents and Electric Field Expulsion in Viscous Electronics Authors: Michael Shavit, Andrey Shytov, and Gregory Falkovich Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026801 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.026801 2. Imaging hydrodynamic electrons flowing without Landauer–Sharvin resistance Authors: C. Kumar, J. Birkbeck, J. A. Sulpizio, D. Perello, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, O. Reuven, T. Scaffidi, Ady Stern, […]

Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Bowen Shen, Yang Zhang, Lizhong Li, Zui Tao, Trithep Devakul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak Nature 600, 641 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04171-1 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

1. RNA phase transitions in repeat expansion disorders Authors: A. Jain and R. D. Vale Nature 546, 243–247 (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nature22386 2. Condensates in RNA repeat sequences are heterogeneously organized and exhibit reptation dynamics Authors: H. T. Nguyen, N. Hori, and D. Thirumalai Nature Chemistry 14, 775–785 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-00934-z Recommended with a commentary by […]

Minimal quantum viscosity from fundamental physical constants Authors: K. Trachenko and V. V. Brazhkin Science Advances, 6, eaba 3747 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3747 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2022_01

Universal Thermal Entanglement of Multichannel Kondo Effects Authors: Donghoon Kim, Jeongmin Shim, and H.-S. Sim Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 226801 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.226801 Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa, University of Tokyo |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2022_02