Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

(I) R.D. Schaller, M. Sykora, J.F. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov: “Seven excitons at the cost of one: redefining the limits for conversion efficiency of photons into charge carriers”, Nano Letters, 6, 424 (2006).

(II) G. Nair and M.G. Bawendi: “Carrier Multiplication yields for CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals by transient photoluminescence spectroscopy”, arXiv.org :0708.3866, Phys. Rev. 76, 081304 (2007).

(III) M. Tuan Trinh, A.J. Houtepen, J.M. Schins, T. Hanrath, J. Piris, W. Knulst, A. Goossens, and L. Siebelles: “In spite of recent doubts Carrier Multiplication does occur in PbSe nanocrystals”, Nano Letters, 8, 1713 (2008).

Recommended with a Commentary by G.T. Zimanyi, U.C. Davis | View Commentary (pdf) |

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Authors: Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, P. Sengupta, C. D. Batista, S. Francoual, E. Palm, T. Murphy, N. Marcano, H. A. Dabkowska, and B. D. Gaulin

ArXiv.0707.2075

Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_July08_01

Authors: D. Hsieh, D. Qian, L. Wray, Y. Xia, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan.

Nature 454, 970 (2008)

Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_July08_02

G. I. Ogilvie and A. T. Potter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074503 (2008)

Recommended with a commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University | View Commentary |

JCCM_July08_03

Authors: Joerg Schumacher

http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1634v1 [physics.flu-dyn],

Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 (2008) 134502

Recommended with a commentary by Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen | View Commentary |

JCCM_June08_01

Authors: R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A.N. Grigorenko, K.S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, A. K. Geim.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3718

Science 320, 1308 (2008).

Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary |

JCCM_June08_02

Nature of the enigmatic pseudogap state: novel magnetic order in superconducting HgBa₂CuO_4+d

Authors: Y. Li, V. Balédent, N. Barisic, Y. Cho, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, G. Yu, X. Zhao, P. Bourges, and M. Greven,

http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2959

and

Thermodynamic signature of a phase transition to the pseudogap phase of YBa₂ Cu₃ O_x high-T_c superconductor

Authors: B. Leridon, P. Monod, and D. Colson.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2128

Recommended with a Commentary by Joël Mesot, Paul Scherrer Institute & ETH Zurich, Villigen, Switzerland and Christopher Mudry, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland | View Commentary |

JCCM_June08_03

Authors: Dirk Dietzel, Claudia Ritter, Tristan Monninghoff, Harald Fuchs, Andre Schirmeisen, and Udo D. Schwarz

arXiv:0805.2448v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Recommended with a commentary by J. Fineberg, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_May08_01

Commentary on “Spontaneously modulated spin textures in a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate”

Authors: M. Vengalattore, S. R. Leslie, J. Guzman, D. M. Stamper-Kurn

arXiv:0712.4182, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170403 (2008),

Recommended with a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_May08_02

Authors: Nikolaos Tombros, Csaba Jozsa, Mihaita Popinciuc, Harry T. Jonkman, Bart J. van Wees,

arXiv:0706.1948, Nature 448, 571-574 (2007).

Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_May08_03

About two articles per day in the last month on arXiv.org on the subject of Fe-pnictide Superconductors, some of them referred in the text of the commentary below.

Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |

Authors: M. Nakamura, A. Sawa, H. Sato, H. Akoh, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura,
arXiv:cond-mat/0702351v1; Phys. Rev. B 75, 155103 (2007)

Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo | View Commentary (pdf) |

Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge
Authors: Margitta Dathe, Heike Nikolenko, Jana Meyer, Michael Beyermann, and Michael Bienert
FEBS Letters 501, 146-150 (2001)

and

Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Authors: Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101-1–16801-4 (2007)

Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |

Authors: H. Matsubara, S. Yoshimoto, H. Saito, Y. Jianglin, Y. Tanaka and S. Noda.
Science 319, 445 (2008)

Recommended with a commentary by Stephen Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Mar08_01

Density modulations in an elongated BEC released from a disordered potential.
Authors: David Cl ́ement, Philippe Bouyer, Alain Aspect, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1984

Disorder-induced trapping versus anderson localization in Bose-Einstein condensates expanding in disordered potentials.
Authors: L. Sanchez-Palencia, D. Cl ́ement, P. Lugan, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1774

Effect of interactions on the localization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a quasiperiodic lattice.
Authors:J. E. Lye, L. Fallani, C. Fort, V. Guarrera, M. Modugno, D. S. Wiersma, and M. Inguscio.
Phys. Rev. A, 75(6):061603, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611146

Ultracold Atoms in a Disordered Crystal of Light: Towards a Bose Glass.
Authors: L. Fallani, J. E. Lye, V. Guarrera, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 98(13):130404, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603655

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Mar08_02

Towards identification of a non-Abelian state: observation of a quarter of electron charge at ν = 5/2 quantum Hall state,
Authors: M. Dolev, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, A. Stern, D. Mahalu
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0930

and

Quasiparticle Tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν = 5/2,
Authors: I. P. Radu, J. B. Miller, C. M. Marcus, M. A. Kastner, L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3530

Recommended with a commentary by Kirill Shtengel, UC Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Mar08_03

Authors: Reem Jaafar, S. McHugh, Yoko Suzuki, M.P. Sarachik, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, H. Shtrikman, R. Bagai, G. Christou

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703448

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320 (2008) 695–698

Recommended with a commentary by Albert Migliori, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_February08_01

1. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials
Authors: A.I. Boukai, Y. Bunimovich, J. Tahir-Kheli, J.K. Yu, W.A. Goddard III, J.R. Heath
Nature 451, 1680 (2008)

2. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires
Authors: A.I. Hochbaum, R.K. Chen, R.D. Delgado, W.J. Liang, M. Najarian, A. Majumdar, and P.D. Yang
Nature 451, 1680 (2008)

Recommended with a commentary by S. Paschen, Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Vienna, Austria | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_February08_02

A. Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene
Authors: A. C. Kane and G. Mele
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411737
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226801 (2005)

B. Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells
Authors: A. Bernevig, T. Hughes, S.C. Zhang
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611399
Science, 314, 1757 (2006)

C. Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures
Authors: J. E. Moore, L. Balents
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607314
Phys. Rev. B 75, 121306(R) (2007)

D. Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions
Authors: D. Liang Fu, C.L. Kane, E.J. Mele
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607699
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106803 (2007)

Recommended and Commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_February08_03

Structure of a thiol monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle at 1.1 A resolution,

Authors: Pablo D. Jadzinsky, Guillermo Calero, Christopher J. Ackerson, David A. Bushnell and Roger D. Kornberg

Science 318 430 (2007)

Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

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