Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2025_01
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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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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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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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