Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Frequency ratio of the ^229mTh nuclear isomeric transition and the ⁸⁷Sr atomic clock
Authors: Chuankun Zhang, Tian Ooi, Jacob S. Higgins, Jack F. Doyle, Lars von der Wense, Kjeld Beeks, Adrian Leitner, Georgy A. Kazakov, Peng Li, Peter G. Thirolf, Thorsten Schumm, and Jun Ye
Nature 633, pages 63–70 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07839-6

2. Temperature Sensitivity of a thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock
Authors: Jacob S. Higgins, Tian Ooi, Jack F. Doyle, Chuankun Zhang, Jun Ye, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, and Thorsten Schumm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 113801 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.113801

3. Frequency reproducibility of solid-state Th-229 nuclear clocks
Authors: Tian Ooi, Jack F. Doyle, Chuankun Zhang, Jacob S. Higgins, Jun Ye, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, and Thorsten Schumm
arXiv:2507.01180 [Nature (in press)], DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.01180

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin (Yale Quantum Institute) and Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado)
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1. Electrical switching of a p-wave magnet
Authors: Qian Song, Srdjan Stavrić, Paolo Barone, Andrea Droghetti, Daniil S. Antonenko, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Connor A. Occhialini, Batyr Ilyas, Emre Ergeçen, Nuh Gedik, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rafael M. Fernandes, Silvia Picozzi, and Riccardo Comin
Nature 642, 64–70 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09034-7

2. A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate spin helix
Authors: Rinsuke Yamada, Max T. Birch, Priya R. Baral, Shun Okumura, Ryota Nakano, Shang Gao, Motohiko Ezawa, Takuya Nomoto, Jan Masell, Yuki Ishihara, Kamil K. Kolincio, Ilya Belopolski, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Kazuki Ohishi, Takashi Ohhara, Ryoji Kiyanagi, Taro Nakajima, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, Yukitoshi Motome, Moritz M. Hirschmann, and Max Hirschberger
Nature 646, 837–842 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09633-4

Recommended with a commentary by Yuan Li , Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes
Authors: Carlos Floyd, Aaron R. Dinner, Arvind Murugan, and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
Nat. Comm 16, no. 1 (2025): 7184, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61873-0

Recommended with a commentary by Krishna Shrinivas , Northwestern University
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Observation of the quantum equivalence principle for matter-waves
Authors: Or Dobkowski, Barak Trok, Peter Skakunenko, Yonathan Japha, David Groswasser, Maxim Efremov, Chiara Marletto, Ivette Fuentes, Roger Penrose, Vlatko Vedral, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ron Folman
arXiv.2502.14535, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.14535

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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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, 68 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09659-8

Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Theory of condensate size control by molecular charge asymmetry
Authors: Chengjie Luo, Nathaniel Hess, Dilimulati Aierken, Yicheng Qiang, Jerelle A. Joseph, and David Zwicker
ACS Macro Letters 14(10), 1484-1491 (2025), DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5c00342

Recommended with a commentary by Yaojun Zhang , Johns Hopkins University
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1. Cooper-pair density modulation state in an iron-based superconductor
Authors: Lingyuan Kong, Michal Papaj, Hyunjin Kim, Yiran Zhang, Eli Baum, Hui Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Genda Gu, Patrick A. Lee, and Stevan Nadj-Perge
Nature 640, 55 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08703-x

2. Sublattice Dichotomy in Monolayer FeSe Superconductor
Authors: Cui Ding, Zhipeng Xu, Xiaotong Jiao, Qiyin Hu, Wenxuan Zhao, Lexian Yang, Kun Jiang, Jin-Feng Jia, Lili Wang, Jiangping Hu, and Qi-Kun Xue
arXiv:2406.15239, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.15239

3. Visualizing uniform lattice-scale pair density wave in single-layer FeSe/SrTiO₃ films
Authors: Yao Zhang, Lianzhi Yang, Chaofei Liu, Wenhao Zhang, and Ying-Shuang Fu
arXiv:2406.05693, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.05693

4. Observation of Superconducting Pair Density Modulation within Lattice Unit Cell
Authors: Tianheng Wei, Yanzhao Liu, Wei Ren, Zhen Liang, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang
Chinese Physics Letters 42, 027404 (2025), DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/42/2/027404

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel F. Agterberg , University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
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1. Self-consistent tensor network method for correlated super-Moiré matter beyond one billion sites
Authors: Yitao Sun, Marcel Niedermeier, Tiago V. C. Antão, Adolfo O. Fumega, and Jose L. Lado
arXiv:2503.04373, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.04373

2. Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on multiple different scales using the quantics tensor train representation
Authors: Marcel Niedermeier, Adrien Moulinas, Thibaud Louvet, Jose L. Lado, and Xavier Waintal
arXiv:2507.04262, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.04262

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov , Delft University of Technology
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Dynamic and Programmable Cellular-Scale Granules Enable Tissue-like Materials
Authors: Yin Fang, Endao Han, Xin-Xing Zhang, Yuanwen Jiang, Yiliang Lin, Jiuyun Shi, Jiangbo Wu, Lingyuan Meng, Xiang Gao, Philip J. Griffin, Xianghui Xiao, Hsiu-Ming Tsai, Hua Zhou, Xiaobing Zuo, Qing Zhang, Miaoqi Chu, Qingteng Zhang, Ya Gao, Leah K. Roth, Reiner Bleher, Zhiyuan Ma, Zhang Jiang, Jiping Yue, Chien-Min Kao, Chin-Tu Chen, Andrei Tokmakoff, Jin Wang, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Bozhi Tian
Matter 2, 948 (2020), DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2020.01.008

Recommended with a commentary by Rae M Robertson-Anderson , University of San Diego
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Instability of Laughlin FQH liquids into gapless power-law correlated states with continuous exponents in ideal Chern bands: rigorous results from plasma mapping
Authors: Saranyo Moitra and Inti Sodemann Villadiego
arXiv:2509.18265, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.18265

Recommended with a commentary by Trithep Devakul , Stanford University
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1. Magic sizes enable minimal-complexity, high-fidelity assembly of programmable shells
Authors: B. Tyukodi, F. Caballero, D. Hayakawa, D. M. Hall, W. B. Rogers, G. M. Grason, and Michael F. Hagan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 118203, (2025), DOI: 10.1103/5yjp-kx2j

2. The polyhedral structure underlying programmable self-assembly
Authors: M. C. Hübl, T. E. Videbæk, D. Hayakawa, W. B. Rogers, and C. P. Goodrich
arxiv:2501.16107, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.16107

Recommended with a commentary by Martin Lenz , CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay and ESPCI
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1. Robust field re-entrant superconductivity in ferromagnetic infinite-layer rare-earth nickelates
Authors: Mingwei Yang, Jiayin Tang, Xianfeng Wu, Heng Wang, Wenjing Xu, Haoliang Huang, Zhicheng Pei, Wenjie Meng, Guangli Kuang, Jinfeng Xu, Sixia Hu, Chuanying Xi, Li Pi, Qingyou Lu, Ziqiang Wang, Qikun Xue, Zhuoyu Chen, and Danfeng Li
arxiv:2508.14666, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.14666

2. Extreme magnetic field-boosted superconductivity in a high-temperature superconductor
Authors: Km Rubi, King Yau Yip, Elizabeth Krenkel, Nurul Fitriyah, Xing Gao, Saurav Prakash, S. Lin Er Chow, Tsz Fung Poon, Mun K. Chan, David Graf, A. Ariando, and Neil Harrison
arxiv:2508.16290, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.16290

Recommended with a commentary by Srinivas Raghu, Stanford University
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1. Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order and its realization in qLDPC codes
Authors: Benedikt Placke, Tibor Rakovszky, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, and Vedika Khemani
arxiv:2412.13248, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.13248

2. Expansion creates spin-glass order in finite-connectivity models: a rigorous and intuitive approach from the theory of LDPC codes
Authors: Benedikt Placke, Grace M. Sommers, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Tibor Rakovszky, and Vedika Khemani
arxiv:2507.13342, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.13342

Recommended with a commentary by Roderich Moessner, MPI-PKS Dresden
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Observation of the Axion quasiparticle in 2D MnBi₂Te₄
Authors: J. X. Qiu, B. Ghosh, J. Schütte-Engel, et al.
Nature 641, 62 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08862-x

Recommended with a commentary by Taige Wang and Dung-Hai Lee , University of California, Berkeley
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A resonant valence bond spin liquid in the dilute limit of doped frustrated Mott insulators
Authors: Cecilie Glittum, Antonio Štrkalj, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Paul A. Goddard, Cristian D. Batista, and Claudio Castelnovo
Nat. Phys. (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02923-8

Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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An efficient and exact noncommutative quantum Gibbs sampler
Authors: Chi-Fang Chen, Michael J. Kastoryano, and András Gilyén
arXiv:2311.09207, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.09207

Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , UC Berkeley and LBNL
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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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