Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Signatures of bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure Authors: You Zhou, Jiho Sung, Elise Brutschea, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Giovanni Scuri, Ryan J. Gelly, Hoseok Heo, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Gergely Zaránd, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Kim, Eugene Demler, and Hongkun Park arXiv:2010.03037 2. Observation of Wigner crystal of electrons in […]

1. Multicellular Rosettes Drive Fluid-solid Transition in Epithelial Tissues Authors: Le Yan and Dapeng Bi Phys. Rev. X 9, 011029 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011029 2. Bayesian inference of force dynamics during morphogenesis Authors: Shuji Ishihara and Kaoru Sugimura Journal of Theoretical Biology 313 (2012) 201–211; DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.08.017 Recommended with a commentary by Silke Henkes, University of […]

1. Isospin Pomeranchuk effect and the entropy of collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Yu Saito, Fangyuan Yang, Xiaoxue Liu, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, J. I. A. Li, Erez Berg, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:2008.10830 2. Entropic evidence for a Pomeranchuk effect in magic angle graphene Authors: Asaf Rozen, Jeong Min Park, […]

Atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to molecular Bose-Einstein condensate transition Authors: Zhendong Zhang, Liangchao Chen, Kaixuan Yao, and Cheng Chin arXiv:2006.15297 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_02

Osmotic pressure between arbitrarily charged planar surfaces: A revisited approach Authors: Ram M. Adar and David Andelman Eur. Phys. J. E. (2018) 41: 11; DOI 10.1140/epje/i2018-11620-1 Recommended with a commentary by Didier R. Long, Laboratoire Polymères et Matériaux Avancés, UMR 5268 Solvay/CNRS |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_03

Quantum eigenstates from classical Gibbs distributions Authors: Pieter W. Claeys and Anatoli Polkovnikov arXiv:2007.07264 Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2020_01

Discovery of segmented Fermi surface induced by Cooper pair momentum Authors: Zhen Zhu, Michał Papaj, Xiao-Ang Nie, Hao-Ke Xu, Yi-Sheng Gu, Xu Yang, Dandan Guan, Shiyong Wang, Yaoyi Li, Canhua Liu, Jianlin Luo, Zhu-An Xu, Hao Zheng, Liang Fu, and Jin-Feng Jia arXiv:2010.02216 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary […]

1. Nonlinear flow response of soft hair beds Authors: José Alvarado, Jean Comtet, Emmanuel de Langre, and A. E. Hosoi Nature Physics 13, 1014-1019, (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nphys4225 2. Bending and Stretching of Soft Pores Enable Passive Control of Fluid Flows Authors: Jean-François Louf, Jan Knoblauch, and Kaare H. Jensen Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 098101 (2020); […]

Simulations of Nanoseparated Charged Surfaces Reveal Charge-Induced Water Reorientation and Nonadditivity of Hydration and Mean-Field Electrostatic RepulsionAuthors: Alexander Schlaich, Alexandre P. dos Santos, and Roland R. NetzLangmuir 35, 551–560 (2019); DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03474 Recommended with a commentary by Albert Johner, Institut Charles Sadron Strasbourg |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as:DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2020_01https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2020_01

1. Forces between solid surfaces in aqueous electrolyte solutions Authors: Alexander M.Smith, Michal Borkovec, and Gregor Trefalt Adv. Colloid. Int. Sci. 275, 102078, (2020); DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2019.102078 2. Forces between silica particles in isopropanol solutions of 1:1 electrolytes Authors: Biljana Stojimirovi?, Marco Galli, and Gregor Trefalt Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 023315 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023315 Recommended with […]

Observation of small Fermi pockets protected by clean CuO2 sheets of a high-Tc superconductor Authors: So Kunisada, Shunsuke Isono, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shiro Sakai, Cédric Bareille, Shunsuke Sakuragi, Ryo Noguchi, Kifu Kurokawa, Kenta Kuroda, Yukiaki Ishida, Shintaro Adachi, Ryotaro Sekine, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Shik Shin, Takami Tohyama, Kazuyasu Tokiwa, and Takeshi Kondo Science 369 […]

1. Exceptional E8 symmetry in spin dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8 Authors: Haiyuan Zou, Y. Cui, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. Yang, G. Xu, A. Okutani, M. Hagiwara, M. Matsuda, G. Wang, G. Mussardo, K. Hódsági, M. Kormos, Z. Z. He, S. Kimura, Rong Yu, Weiqiang Yu, Jie Ma, and Jianda Wu arXiv:2005.13302 2. Observation […]

1. Nature of symmetry breaking at the excitonic insulator transition: Ta2NiSe5 Authors: G. Mazza, M. Rösner, L. Windgätter, S. Latini, H. Hübener, A. J. Millis, A. Rubio, and A. Georges Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197601 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.197601 2. Nonlinear spectroscopy of collective modes in excitonic insulator Authors: D. Golež, Z. Sun, Y. Murakami, A. […]

1. Electron attraction mediated by Coulomb repulsion Authors: A. Hamo, A. Benyamini, I. Shapir, I. Khivrich, J. Waissman, K. Kaasbjerg, Y. Oreg, F. von Oppen, and S. Ilani Nature 535, 395 (2016); DOI: 10.1038/nature18639 2. Charge Transfer Excitations, Pair Density Waves, and Superconductivity in Moire Materials Authors: Kevin Slagle and Liang Fu arXiv:2003:13690 3. Correlated […]

Diffusio-osmosis and wetting on solid surfaces: a unified description based on a virtual work principle Authors: Nigel Clarke, Nigel Gibbions and Didier R. Long Soft Matter 16, 3485 (2020); DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02118C Recommended with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2020_03

Fractional statistics in anyon collisions Authors: H. Bartolomei, M. Kumar, R. Bisognin, A. Marguerite, J.-M. Berroir, E. Bocquillon, B. Plaçais, A. Cavanna, Q. Dong, U. Gennser, Y. Jin, and G. Fève Science 368, 173–177 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5601 Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited […]

Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics at the ν = 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state Authors: James Nakamura, Shuang Liang, Geoffrey C. Gardner, and Michael J. Manfra arXiv:2006.14115 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University) and Charles M. Marcus (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and Microsoft Quantum Lab–Copenhagen) |View Commentary (pdf)| […]

Observation of a marginal Fermi glass using THz 2D coherent spectroscopy Authors: Fahad Mahmood, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Rahul Nandkishore, and N.P. Armitage arXiv:2005.10822 Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran, University of Oxford |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2020_01

1. Backflow Transformations via Neural Networks for Quantum Many-Body Wave-Functions Authors: D. Luo and B. K. Clark Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 226401 (2019); DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.226401 arXiv:1807.10770 2. Ab-Initio Solution of the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks Authors: D. Pfau, J. S. Spencer, A. G. de G. Matthews, and W. M. C. Foulkes arXiv:1909.02487 3. […]

AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression Authors: Silviu-Marian Udrescu and Max Tegmark Sci. Adv. 6 : eaay2631, 2020; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2631 Recommended with a commentary by Ilya Nemenman, Emory University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2020_02