Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Many-body interference in kagome crystals Authors: C. Guo, K. Wang, L. Zhang, C. Putzke, D. Chen, M. R. van Delft, S. Wiedmann, F. F. Balakirev, R. D. McDonald, M. Gutierrez-Amigo, M. Alkorta, I. Errea, M. G. Vergniory, T. Oka, R. Moessner, M. H. Fischer, T. Neupert, C. Felser, and P. J. W. Moll Nature 647, […]

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 phase transition in a clean superconductor with repulsive dynamical interaction Authors: Dimitri Pimenov and Andrey V. Chubukov arXiv:2112.06273 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01

Theory of Hofstadter Superconductors Authors: Daniel Shaffer, Jian Wang, Luiz H. Santos arXiv:2108.04831 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2021_02

Non-Hydrodynamic Initial Conditions are Not Soon Forgotten Authors: T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitz, and J. R. Dorfman arXiv:2102.08447 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2021_02

Odd-frequency spin-triplet instability in disordered electron liquid Authors: Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Alexander M. Finkel’stein arXiv:1912.04258 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_03

1. Correlated insulator behaviour at half filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices Authors: Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Nature 556, 80 (2018), arXiv:1802.00553 2. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices Authors: Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero […]

1. Pomeranchuk instability and response beyond the quasiparticle regime. Authors: Egor I. Kiselev, Mathias S. Scheurer, Peter Wölfle, and Jörg Schmalian. arXiv:1611.01442 2.Conservation and persistence of spin currents and their relation to the Lieb-Schulz-Mattis twist operators. Authors: N. Bray-Ali and Z. Nussinov. Phys. Rev. B 80, 012401 (2009) Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, […]

1. Perspective on the phase diagram of cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Authors: D. Rybicki, M. Jurkutat, S. Reichardt, C. Kapusta, and J. Haase. arXiv:1511.02408; Nature Communications 7, Article number: 11413 (2016) 2. Bulk superconductivity at 84 K in the strongly overdoped regime of cuprates. Authors: A. Gauzzi, Y. Klein, M. Nisula, M. Karppinen, P. K. Biswas, […]

1.Ising nematic quantum critical point in a metal: a Monte Carlo study. Authors:Yoni Schattner, Samuel Lederer, Steven A. Kivelson, Erez Berg. arXiv:1511.03282 2.The nature of effective interaction in cuprate superconductors: a sign-problem-free quantum Monte-Carlo study. Authors: Zi-Xiang Li, Fa Wang, Hong Yao, Dung-Hai Lee. arXiv:1512.04541 3.Competing Orders in a Nearly Antiferromagnetic Metal. Authors: Yoni Schattner, […]

Criterion for stability of Goldstone Modes and Fermi Liquid behavior in a metal with broken symmetry Authors: Haruki Watanabe and Ashvin Vishwanath arXiv: 1404.3728 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_03

1. Divergent nematic susceptibility in an iron arsenide superconductor. Authors: J.H. Chu, H.-H. Kuo, J. G. Analytis, I. R. Fisher Science 337, 710 (2012), arXiv:1203.3239 2. Measurement of the elastoresistivity coefficients of the underdoped iron-arsenide Ba(Fe0.975Co0.025)2As2. Authors: H.-H. Kuo, M. C. Shapiro, S. C. Riggs, I. R. Fisher Phys. Rev. B 88, 085113 (2013), arXiv:1306.4377 […]

Scaling theory of the Mott transition and breakdown of Gruneisen scaling near a finite-temperature critical end point Authors: L. Bartosch,  M. de Souza,  M. Lang arXiv:1004.4898; Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245701 (2010) Recommended with a commentary by Jorg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_03

1) Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma Authors: G. Policastro, D. T. Son and A. O. Starinets Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001), arXiv:hep-th/0104066 2) Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics Authors: P. Kovtun, D.T. Son, A. O. Starinets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111601 (2005), arXiv:hep-th/0405231. 3) Theory […]

1. Evidence for Charge Kondo Effect in Superconducting Ti-doped PbTe Authors: Y. Matsushita, H. Blum, T. H. Geballe, and I. R. Fisher http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409174 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157002 (2005) 2. Superconductivity in Charge Kondo Systems Authors: Maxim Dzero and Jörg Schmalian http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409171 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157003 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, […]