Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Backbone exponent for two-dimensional percolation
Authors: Pierre Nolin, Wei Qian, Xin Sun, and Zijie Zhuang
arXiv:2309.05050; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.05050

Recommended with a commentary by Ilya A. Gruzberg (The Ohio State University) and Greg Huber (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub – San Francisco)
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1. Unconventional Magnetic Oscillations in Kagome Mott Insulators
Authors: Guoxin Zheng, Yuan Zhu, Kuan-Wen Chen, Byungmin Kang, Dechen Zhang, Kaila Jenkins, Aaron Chan, Zhenyuan Zeng, Aini Xu, Oscar A. Valenzuela, Joanna Blawat, John Singleton, Patrick A. Lee, Shiliang Li, and Lu Li
arXiv:2310.07989; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07989

2. Dirac quantum spin liquid emerging in a kagome-lattice antiferromagnet
Authors: Zhenyuan Zeng, Chengkang Zhou, Honglin Zhou, Lankun Han, Runze Chi, Kuo Li, Maiko Kofu, Kenji Nakajima, Yuan Wei, Wenliang Zhang, D. G. Mazzone, Zi Yang Meng, and Shiliang Li
arXiv:2310.11646; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.11646

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma , University of California, Berkeley – Visiting Scholar
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Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Graphene Moire Superlattice
Authors: Zhengguang Lu, Tonghang Han, Yuxuan Yao, Aidan P. Reddy, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, and Long Ju
arXiv:2309.17436; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.17436

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University
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Driving force and pathway in polyelectrolyte complex coacervation
Authors: Shensheng Chen and Zhen-Gang Wang
PNAS, v. 119, n. 36, p. e2209975119 (2022); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209975119

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University
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1. A multiplayer multiteam nonlocal game for the toric code
Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi
Phys. Rev. B 107, 035409 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.035409

2. Playing nonlocal games with phases of matter
Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi
Phys. Rev. B 107, 045412 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.045412

Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore , University of Colorado, Boulder
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Superconductivity near 80 Kelvin in single crystals of La₃Ni₂O₇ under pressure
Authors: H. Sun, M. Huo, X. Hu, J. Li, Y. Han, L. Tang, Z. Mao, P. Yang, B. Wang, J. G. Cheng, D.-X. Yao, G.-M. Zhang, and M. Wang
Nature 621, 493 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06408-7

Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si , Rice University
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Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions as the Organizing Principle of a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet
Authors: Alexander Wietek and Sylvain Capponi and Andreas M. Läuchli
arXiv:2303.01585; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.01585

Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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1. Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures
Authors: Zhiren Zheng, Qiong Ma, Zhen Bi, Sergio de la Barrera, Ming-Hao Liu, Nannan Mao, Yang Zhang, Natasha Kiper, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jing Kong, William A. Tisdale, Ray Ashoori, Nuh Gedik, Liang Fu, Su-Yang Xu, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Nature 588, 71–76 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2970-9

2. Giant ferroelectric polarization in a bilayer graphene heterostructure
Authors: Ruirui Niu, Zhuoxian Li, Xiangyan Han, Zhuangzhuang Qu, Dongdong Ding, Zhiyu Wang, Qianling Liu, Tianyao Liu, Chunrui Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Menghao Wu, Qi Ren, Xueyun Wang, Jiawang Hong, Jinhai Mao, Zheng Han, Kaihui Liu, Zizhao Gan, and Jianming Lu
Nature Communications 13, 6241 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34104-z

3. Electronic ratchet effect in a moiré system: signatures of excitonic ferroelectricity
Authors: Zhiren Zheng, Xueqiao Wang, Ziyan Zhu, Stephen Carr, Trithep Devakul, Sergio de la Barrera, Nisarga Paul, Zumeng Huang, Anyuan Gao, Yang Zhang, Damien Bérubé, Kathryn Natasha Evancho, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Yao Wang, Su-Yang Xu, Efthimios Kaxiras, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Qiong Ma
arXiv: 2306.03922 (2023); DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2306.03922

Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner (Ohio State University) and Matthew Yankowitz (University of Washington)
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Nonreciprocal interactions give rise to fast cilium synchronisation in finite systems
Authors: David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan
PNAS 120, 40, e2307279120 (2023); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307279120

Recommended with a commentary by Bryan VanSaders , Drexel University
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Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry
Authors: Haidong Tian, Xueshi Gao, Yuxin Zhang, Shi Che, Tianyi Xu, Patrick Cheung, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mohit Randeria, Fan Zhang, Chun Ning Lau, and Marc W. Bockrath
Nature 614, 440 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05576-2
arXiv:2112.13401

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Leiden University
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1. Anisotropy as a diagnostic test for distinct tensor-network wave functions of integer- and half-integer-spin Kitaev quantum spin liquids
Authors: Hyun-Yong Lee, Takafumi Suzuki, Yong Baek Kim, and Naoki Kawashima
Phys. Rev. B 104, 024417 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024417

2. Z₂ Spin Liquids in the Higher Spin-S Kitaev Honeycomb Model: An Exact Deconfined Z₂ Gauge Structure in a Nonintegrable Model
Author: Han Ma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 156701 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.156701

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa , University of Tokyo
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1. Single electron-spin-resonance detection by microwave photon counting
Authors: Z. Wang, L. Balembois, M. M. Rančić, E. Billaud, M. Le Dantec, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Bertaina, T. Chanelière, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin
Nature 619, 276–281 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06097-2

2. Practical Single Microwave Photon Counter with 10^-22 W/√Hz sensitivity
Authors: L. Balembois, J. Travesedo, L. Pallegoix, A. May, E. Billaud, M. Villiers, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin
arXiv:2307.03614; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.03614

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin , Yale University
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Self-organisation of mortal filaments: the role of FtsZ treadmilling in bacterial division ring formation
Authors: Christian Vanhille-Campos, Kevin D. Whitley, Philipp Radler, Martin Loose, Séamus Holden, and Anđela Šarić
bioRxiv 2023.05.08.539808; DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.08.539808

Recommended with a commentary by Karsten Kruse , Université de Genève
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Proximate deconfined quantum critical point in SrCu₂(BO₃)₂
Authors: Yi Cui, Lu Liu, Huihang Lin, Kai-Hsin Wu, Wenshan Hong, Xuefei Liu, Cong Li, Ze Hu, Ning Xi, Shiliang Li, Rong Yu, Anders W. Sandvik, and Weiqiang Yu
Science 380, 1179 (2023); DOI: 10.1126/science.adc9487

Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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1. Evidence for chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions
Authors: Hadrien Vignaud, David Perconte, Wenmin Yang, Bilal Kousar, Edouard Wagner, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hervé Courtois, Zheng Han, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé
arXiv:2305.01766; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.01766

2. Induced superconducting correlations in the quantum anomalous Hall insulator
Authors: Anjana Uday, Gertjan Lippertz, Kristof Moors, Henry F. Legg, Andrea Bliesener, Lino M. C. Pereira, A. A. Taskin, and Yoichi Ando
arXiv:2307.08578; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.08578

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
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Onsager regression characterizes living systems in passive measurements
Authors: Till M. Muenker, Gabriel Knotz, Matthias Krüger, and Timo Betz
bioRxiv 2022.05.15.491928; DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.15.491928

Recommended with a commentary by Pierre Ronceray, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM, Turing Center for Living Systems
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1. Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor
Authors: Google Quantum AI and Collaborators
Nature 618, 264 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05954-4

2. Digital Simulation of Projective Non-Abelian Anyons with 68 Superconducting Qubits
Authors: Shibo Xu et al.
Chinese Physics Letters, 40, 060301, (2023); DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/40/6/060301

3. Creation of Non-Abelian Topological Order and Anyons on a Trapped-Ion Processor
Authors: Mohsin Iqbal et al.
arXiv:2305.03766; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.03766

Recommended with a commentary by Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute of Science), and Steven Simon (Oxford University)
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Fabry-Perot interferometry at the ν = 2/5 fractional quantum Hall state
Authors: James Nakamura, Shuang Liang, Geoffrey C. Gardner, and Michael J. Manfra
arXiv:2304.12415; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.12415

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University and University of Oxford), and Charles M. Marcus (University of Washington and University of Copenhagen)
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1. Signatures of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted MoTe₂ Bilayer
Authors: Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson, Chong Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, William Holtzmann, Yinong Zhang, Fengren Fan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, Liang Fu, Di Xiao, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu
Nature (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06289-w
arXiv:2304.08470; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08470

2. Integer and fractional Chern insulators in twisted bilayer MoTe₂
Authors: Yihang Zeng, Zhengchao Xia, Kaifei Kang, Jiacheng Zhu, Patrick Knüppel, Chirag Vaswani, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kin Fai Mak, and Jie Shan
arXiv:2305.00973; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.00973

Recommended with a commentary by Chris R. Laumann, Boston University
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Self-organized intracellular twisters
Authors: Sayantan Dutta, Reza Farhadifar, Wen Lu, Gokberk kabacaoglu, Robert Blackwell, David B Stein, Margot Lakonishok, Vladimir I. Gelfand, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, and Michael J. Shelley
arXiv:2304.02112; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.02112

Recommended with a commentary by Massimo Vergassola, CNRS and École Normale Supérieure, Paris
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