Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Chiral split magnon in altermagnetic MnTe
Authors: Z. Liu, M. Ozeki, S. Asai, S. Itoh, and T. Masuda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156702 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.156702

2. Circular dichroism in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering: Probing altermagnetic domains in MnTe
Authors: D. Takegami, T. Aoyama, T. Okauchi, T. Yamaguchi, S. Tippireddy, S. Agrestini, M. García-Fernández, T. Mizokawa, K. Ohgushi, Ke-Jin Zhou, J. Chaloupka, J. Kuneš, A. Hariki, and H. Suzuki
arXiv:2502.10809, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.10809

3. Systematic mapping of altermagnetic magnons by resonant inelastic X-ray circular dichroism
Authors: N. Biniskos, M. dos Santos Dias, S. Agrestini, D. Sviták, K.-J. Zhou, J. Pospíšil, and P. Čermák
arXiv:2503.02533, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.02533

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori , National Tsing Hua University
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Polymer physics by quantum computing
Authors: C. Micheletti, P. Hauke, and P. Faccioli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080501 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.080501

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University
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1. High-temperature field-free superconducting diode effect in high-T_c cuprates
Authors: Shichao Qi, Jun Ge, Chengcheng Ji, Yiwen Ai, Gaoxing Ma, Ziqiao Wang, Zihan Cui, Yi Liu, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang
Nature Communications 16, 531 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55880-4

2. Superconducting diode effect and interference patterns in kagome CsV₃Sb₅
Authors: Tian Le, Zhiming Pan, Zhuokai Xu, Jinjin Liu, Jialu Wang, Zhefeng Lou, Xiaohui Yang, Zhiwei Wang, Yugui Yao, Congjun Wu, and Xiao Lin
Nature 630, 64 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07431-y

Recommended with a commentary by Youichi Yanase, Kyoto University
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Nuclear Quantum Effects in Liquid Water Are Marginal for Its Average Structure but Significant for Dynamics
Authors: Nore Stolte, János Daru, Harald Forbert, Jörg Behler, and Dominik Marx
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 12144 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02925

Recommended with a commentary by David Beyer (University of Stuttgart) and Zhen-Gang Wang (Caltech)
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Pair Wavefunction Symmetry in UTe₂ from Zero-Energy Surface State Visualization
Authors: Qiangqiang Gu, Shuqiu Wang, Joseph P. Carroll, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Xiaolong Liu, J.C. Séamus Davis, and Dung-Hai Lee
Science 388, 938-944 (2025), DOI: 10.1126/science.adk7219
arXiv:2501.16636, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.16636

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee , MIT
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice
Authors: Bastián Pradenas, Grigor Adamyan, and Oleg Tchernyshyov
arXiv:2504.12411, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.12411

Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran , University of Oxford
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1. Semi-classical theory of bipolaronic superconductivity in a bond-modulated electron-phonon model
Authors:Kyung-Su Kim, Zhaoyu Han, and John Sous
Phys. Rev. B 109, L220502 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L220502

2. Bipolaronic superconductivity out of a Coulomb gas
Authors:J. Sous, C. Zhang, M. Berciu, D. R. Reichman, B. V. Svistunov, N. V. Prokof’ev, and A. J. Millis
Phys. Rev. B 108, L220502 (2023), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L220502

3. Bipolaronic high-temperature superconductivity
Authors:C. Zhang, J. Sous, D. R. Reichman, M. Berciu, A. J. Millis, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov
Phys. Rev. X 13, 011010 (2023), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011010

Recommended with a commentary by Massimo Capone , SISSA and CNR-IOM
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2025_01
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Locomotion of Active Polymerlike Worms in Porous Media
Authors: R. Sinaasappel, M. Fazelzadeh, T. Hooijschuur, Q. Di, S. Jabbari-Farouji, and A. Deblais
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 128303 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.128303

Recommended with a commentary by Emanuele Locatelli , University of Padova and INFN, Padova Division
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A local automaton for the 2D toric code
Authors: Shankar Balasubramanian, Margarita Davydova and Ethan Lake
arXiv:2412.19803, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.19803

Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore , University of Colorado Boulder
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1. Beyond-Hubbard pairing in a cuprate ladder
Authors: Hari Padma, Jinu Thomas, Sophia TenHuisen, Wei He, Ziqiang Guan, Jiemin Li, Byungjune Lee, Yu Wang, Seng Huat Lee, Zhiqiang Mao, Hoyoung Jang, Valentina Bisogni, Jonathan Pelliciari, Mark P. M. Dean, Steven Johnston, and Matteo Mitrano
arXiv:2501.10287, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.10287

2. Cooper-Pair Localization in the Magnetic Dynamics of a Cuprate Ladder
Authors: A. Scheie, P. Laurell, J. Thomas, V. Sharma, A. I. Kolesnikov, G. E. Granroth, Q. Zhang, B. Lake, M. Mihalik Jr., R. I. Bewley, R. S. Eccleston, J. Akimitsu, E. Dagotto, C. D. Batista, G. Alvarez, S. Johnston, and D. A. Tennant
arXiv:2501.10296, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.10296

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi , University of Geneva
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1. Cell Membranes Resist Flow
Authors: Zheng Shi, Zachary T. Graber, Tobias Baumgart, Howard A. Stone, and Adam E. Cohen
Cell 175, 1769–1779 (2018), DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.054

2. Cell protrusions and contractions generate long-range membrane tension propagation
Authors: Henry De Belly, Shannon Yan, Hudson Borja da Rocha, Sacha Ichbiah, Jason P. Town, Patrick J. Zager, Dorothy C. Estrada, Kirstin Meyer, Hervé Turlier, Carlos Bustamante, and Orion D Weiner
Cell 186, 3049–3061 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.014

Recommended with a commentary by Christoph F. Schmidt , Duke University
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1. Superfluid stiffness of twisted trilayer graphene superconductors
Authors: Abhishek Banerjee, Zeyu Hao, Mary Kreidel, Patrick Ledwith, Isabelle Phinney, Jeong Min Park, Andrew Zimmerman, Marie E. Wesson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert M. Westervelt, Amir Yacoby, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Pavel A. Volkov, Ashvin Vishwanath, Kin Chung Fong, and Philip Kim
Nature, volume 638, pages 93–98 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08444-3

2. Simultaneous transport and tunneling spectroscopy of moiré graphene: Distinct observation of the superconducting gap and signatures of nodal superconductivity
Authors: Jeong Min Park, Shuwen Sun, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
arXiv:2503.16410, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.16410

Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil , MIT
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Unveiling Resilient Superconducting Fluctuations in Atomically Thin NbSe₂ through Higgs Mode Spectroscopy
Authors: Yu Du, Gan Liu, Wei Ruan, Zhi Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ronghua Liu, Jian-Xin Li, and Xiaoxiang Xi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 066002 (2025) and supplemental material, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.066002

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas , University of California at San Diego
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Signatures of Chiral Superconductivity in Rhombohedral Graphene
Authors: Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Zach Hadjri, Lihan Shi, Zhenghan Wu, Wei Xu, Yuxuan Yao, Armel A. Cotten, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Shenyong Ye, Muyang Zhou, Haoyang Liu, Gang Shi, Zhenqi Hua, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng Xiong, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Liang Fu, and Long Ju
arXiv:2408.15233, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.15233

Recommended with a commentary by Ya-Hui Zhang (John Hopkins University) and Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard University)
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Electrostatic-elastic coupling in colloidal crystals
Authors: Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, and Rudolf Podgornik
Europhysics Letters 148, 47001 (2024), DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ad8f5d

Recommended with a commentary by Ram M. Adar , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Generalized Hydrodynamic Description of the Page Curve–like Dynamics of a Freely Expanding Fermionic Gas
Authors: Madhumita Saha, Manas Kulkarni, and Abhishek Dhar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 230402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.230402

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa , University of Tokyo
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1. Simplified derivations for high-dimensional convex learning problems associated with statistical learning
Authors: David G. Clark, and Haim Sompolinsky
arXiv.2412.01110, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.01110

2. Memorizing without overfitting: Bias, variance, and interpolation in overparameterized models
Authors: Jason W. Rocks, and Pankaj Mehta
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013201 (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013201

Recommended with a commentary by Anirvan M. Sengupta , Rutgers University and Flatiron Institute
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Characterising transport in a quantum gas by measuring Drude weights
Authors: Philipp Schüttelkopf, Mohammadamin Tajik, Nataliia Bazhan, Federica Cataldini, Si-Cong Ji, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Frederik Møller
arXiv.2406.17569, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.17569

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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Evidence of striped electronic phases in a structurally modulated superlattice
Authors: A. Devarakonda, A. Chen, S. Fang, D. Graf, M. Kriener, A. J. Akey, D. C. Bell, T. Suzuki, and J. G. Checkelsky
Nature 631, 526-530 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07589-5

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University), Chaitanya Murthy (University of Rochester and Stanford University)
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Enumeration of all superconducting circuits up to 5 nodes
Authors: Eli J. Weissler, Mohit Bhat, Zhenxing Liu, and Joshua Combes
arXiv:2410.18497, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.18497

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov , Delft University of Technology
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