Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Authors: M. Neumann, Andrew Casey, Jan Nyéki, Brian Cowan and John Saunders

Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Low Temperature Physics, Orlando, Florida. To be published by the American Institute of Physics (2006).

Recommended with a Commentary by Piers Coleman, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Dec05_01)

1. Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films

Authors: K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva and A. A. Firsov

Science 306, 666 (2004)

2. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene

Authors: K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jian, M. I. Katsnelson, , I. V. Grigorieva, S. V. Dubonos and A. A. Firsov

Nature 438, 197 (2005)

3. Experimental Observation of Quantum Hall Effect and Berry’s Phase in Graphene

Authors: Yuanbo Zhang, Yan-Wen Tan, H. L. Stormer & Philip Kim

Nature 438, 201 (2005)

Recommended with a Commentary by Rafael De Picciotto, Bell Laboratories. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Dec05_02)

Authors: Martin W. Zwierlein, Andre Schirotzek, Christian H. S Chunck, and Wolfgang Ketterle

cond-mat/051197

2. Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas

Authors: Guthrie, B. Partidge, Wenhui Li, Ramsey I. Kamar, Yean-an Liao, Randall G. Hulet

cond-mat/0511752

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

(JCCM_Dec05_03)

Authors: M. Schellekens, R. Hoppeler, A. Perrin, J. Viana Gomes, D. Boiron, A. Aspect and C. I. Westbrook

Sciencexpress: Science, vol. 310, page 648 (2005)

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

(JCCM_Nov05_01)

Authors: References given at the end of the Commentary.

Recommended with a Commentary by JP Bouchaud, CEA, Saclay. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Nov05_02)

1. The Fulde-Ferrel, Larkin-Ovchinikov state in superconductors: Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity from electron spin domains

Authors: H.A. Radovan et al.

Nature 425, 51 (2005)

2. Superconductivity in heavy fermion CeCoIn5

Authors: Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov , Int. Conf. on Strongly Correlated

Electron Systems 2005 (SCES’05), Vienna, to be published in Physica B

3. Texture in the superconducting order parameter of CeCoIn5 revealed by nuclear magnetic resonance

Authors: K. Kukuyanagi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 047602 (2005)

4. Microscopic evidence of the FFLO state in CeCoIn5 probed by NMR

Authors: K. Kumagai et al.,  , Int. Conf. on Strongly Correlated

Electron Systems 2005 (SCES’05), Vienna, to be published in Physica B

Recommended with a commentary by H. v. Löhneysen, Universität Karlsruhe, Physikalisches Institut, and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Germany.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Nov05_03)

Authors: M. Hermele, G. Rafael, M. P. A. Fisher, P. M. Goldbart

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508301

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

(JCCM_Oct05_01)

Authors: M. König, A. Tschetschetkin, E. M. Hankiewicz, J. Sinova, V. Hock, V. Daumer, M. Schäfer, C. R. Becker, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508396

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

(JCCM_Oct05_02)

Authors: Cristina Toninelli, Matthieu Wyart, Ludovic Berthier, Guilio Biroli and Jean Philippe Bouchaud

Phys Rev E 71, 041505 (2005)

Recommended and Commentary by Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Oct05_03)

1. Continuum Model for Polymorphism in Bacterial Flagella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 248101

2. Model for Polymorphic Transitions in Bacterial Flagella

Authors: S. V. Srigiriraju and T.R. Powers

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509033

Recommended and a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Sep05_01)

1. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Cs2CuCl4

Authors: T. Radu, H. Wilhelm, V. Yushankhai, D. Kovrizhin, R. Coldea, Z. Tylczynski, T. Luhmann and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127202 (2005)

2. Bose-Einstein Condensation of S=1 Ni Spin Degrees of Freedom in NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2

Authors: V.S. Zapf, D. Zocco, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, A. Lacerda, C.D. Batista, and A. Paduan-Filho

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505562

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

(JCCM_Sep05_02)

Authors: F. R. Drymiotis et al.

Phys. Rev. Letters, vol. 93, 025502-1-4 (2004)

Authors: C. Pantea et al.

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0509220

Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, Bell laboratories and University of California, Riverside.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Sep05_03)

Authors: D.M. Basko, I.L. Aleiner, and B.L. Altshuler

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0506617

Recommended and a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug05_01)

Authors: Wallraf, D.I. Schuster, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, J. Majer, S.M. Girvin, and R.J. Schoelkopf

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502645

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 060501 (2005)

Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug05_02)

Authors: Tsuda et al

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409219

Phys. Rev B in press.

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0504576

Recommended and Commentary by Sadamichi Maekawa, Tohoku University, Sendai.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug05_03)

1. Evidence for Charge Kondo Effect in Superconducting Ti-doped PbTe

Authors: Y. Matsushita, H. Blum, T. H. Geballe, and I. R. Fisher

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409174

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157002 (2005)

2. Superconductivity in Charge Kondo Systems

Authors: Maxim Dzero and Jörg Schmalian

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409171

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157003 (2005)

Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_July05_01)

Authors: Y. Kurosaki et. al.

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0504273

Recommended and Commentary by Matthew Fisher, KITP, Santa Barbara.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_July05_02)

Authors: M.B. Short, et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018501 (2005)

Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT, and Wim van Saarloos, Institute-Lorentz, Leiden University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_June05_01)

Authors: F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502406

Recommended and Commentary by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_June05_02)

1. Universal adiabatic dynamics across a quantum critical point

Authors:  Anatoli Polkovnikov

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0312144

2. Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition

Authors: Wojciech H. Zurek, Uwe Dorner, and Peter Zoller

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503511

Recommended and Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Jun05_03)