Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Evidence of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions Authors: Antonio Fornieri, Alexander M. Whiticar, F. Setiawan, Elías Portolés, Asbjørn C. C. Drachmann, Anna Keselman, Sergei Gronin, Candice Thomas, Tian Wang, Ray Kallaher, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Erez Berg, Michael J. Manfra, Ady Stern, Charles M. Marcus, and Fabrizio Nichele Nature 569, 89-92 (2019); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1068-8 […]

1. Particle-Hole Symmetry in the Fermion-Chern-Simons and Dirac Descriptions of a Half-Filled Landau Level Authors: Chong Wang, Nigel R. Cooper, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Ady Stern Phys. Rev. X 7, 031029 (2017) 2. Particle-hole symmetry and electromagnetic response of a half-filled Landau level Authors: Michael Levin and Dam Thanh Son Phys. Rev. B 95, 125120 […]

1. Observed quantization of anyonic heat flow Authors: M. Banerjee, M. Heiblum, A. Rosenblatt, Y. Oreg, D. E. Feldman, A. Stern, and V. Umansky Nature 545, 77 (2017) 2. Observation of half-integer thermal Hall conductance Authors: M. Banerjee, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, D. E. Feldman, Y. Oreg, and A. Stern arXiv:1710.00492 Recommended with a commentary […]

Nanoscale thermal imaging of dissipation in quantum systems. Authors: D. Halbertal, J. Cuppens, M. Ben Shalom, L. Embon, N. Shadmi, Y. Anahory, H. R. Naren, J. Sarkar, A. Uri, Y. Ronen, Y. Myasoedov, L. S. Levitov, E. Joselevich, A. K. Geim, and E. Zeldov. arXiv: 1609.01487 Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard […]

Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall physics in ZnO. Authors: J. Falson, D. Maryenko, B. Friess, D. Zhang, Y. Kozuka, A. Tsukuzaki, J. H. Smet, and M. Kawasaki. Nature Physics 11,347(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2015_02

1.Precise quantization of anomalous Hall effect near zero magnetic field. Authors: A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, Xufeng Fu, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon. Phys.Rev.Lett. 114,187201(2015) 2.High-precision realization of robust quantum anomalous Hall state in a hard ferromagnetic topological insulator. Authors:Cui-Zu Chang, Weiwei Zhao, Duk Y.Kim, Haijun Zhang, Badih A. Assaf, Don […]

Imprint of topological degeneracy in quasi-one-dimensional fractional quantum Hall states. Authors: Eran Sagi, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, and Bertrand Halperin. arXiv:1502.01665 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_01

Trajectory of Anomalous Hall Effect toward the Quantized State in a Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator Authors: J. G. Checkelsky, B. Yoshimi, K. S. Takahashi, Y. Kozuka, J. Falson, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura arXiv: 1406.7450 Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_02

1) Fluxonium: single Cooper pair circuit free of charge offsets. Authors: V. E. Manucharyan, J. Koch, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0831 ; Science 326, 113-116 (2009). 2) Coherent oscillations between classically separable quantum states of a superconducting loop Authors: V. E. Manucharyan, J. Koch, M. Brink, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. […]

Authors: J. D. Koralek, C. Weber, J. Orenstein, A. Bernevig, S. Zhang, S. Mack, and D. Awschalom. http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4709v2 . To appear in Nature, April 2, 2009. Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_March09_02

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

Authors: M. Grayson, L. Steinke, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, L. Hoeppel, J. Smet, K. v. Klitzing, D. K. Maude, and G. Abstreiter. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701295 Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_August07_03

Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University | View Contributions | Vivek Aji, University of California, Riverside |  View Contributions | Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology | View Contributions | David Andelman, Tel Aviv University | View Contributions | Philip Anderson, Princeton University, Princeton | View Contributions | Arezoo M. Ardekani, University of Notre Dame | View Contributions | […]

Authors: I. Neder, N. Ofek, Y. Chung, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu and V. Umansky http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0173; Nature (in press) Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_June07_02

Authors: S.O. Valenzuela and M. Tinkham http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605423 (Nature, in press) Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July06_02)

Authors: M. König, A. Tschetschetkin, E. M. Hankiewicz, J. Sinova, V. Hock, V. Daumer, M. Schäfer, C. R. Becker, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508396 Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand  I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_02)

Authors: T. Senthil, L. Balents, S. Sachdev , A. Vishwanath, and M. P. A. Fisher http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312617 Physical Review B 70, 144407 (2004) Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr05_02)

1. Spin-current and spin accumulation in 2d spin-orbit coupled systems with impurities Authors: E.G. Mischenko, A. V. Shytov and B.I. Halperin http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406730 2. Spin-Hall effect in a disordered 2D electron-system Authors: R. Raimondi and P. Schwab http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0408233 Recommended and a Commentary by Alexander Punnoose, Bell labs and Chandra Varma, Bell labs and University of California, […]

Authors: L. P. Rokhinson, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0403645 Recommended and a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jul04_01)

Authors: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Bertrand I. Halperin, Ophir M. Auslaender, Amir Yacoby http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312159 Recommended and a Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Feb04_01)