Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Spin-charge separation in a one-dimensional Fermi gas with tunable interactions
Authors: Ruwan Senaratne, Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos, Sheng Wang, Feng He, Ya-Ting Chang, Aashish Kafle, Han Pu, Xi-Wen Guan, and Randall G. Hulet
Science 376, 1305 (2022); DOI: 10.1126/science.abn1719
arXiv:2111.11545; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2111.11545

2. Realization of a spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid
Authors: Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos, Ruwan Senaratne, Aashish Kafle, and Randall G. Hulet
arXiv:2210.06306; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.06306

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
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Observation of superconducting vortices carrying a temperature-dependent fraction of the flux quantum
Authors: Yusuke Iguchi, Ruby Shi, Kunihiro Kihou, Chul-Ho Lee, Vadim Grinenko, Egor Babaev, and Kathryn A. Moler
arXiv:2301.12368; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.12368

Recommended with a commentary by Jung Hoon Han, Sungkyunkwan University and Patrick A. Lee, MIT
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Informational active matter
Authors: Bryan VanSaders and Vincenzo Vitelli
arXiv:2302.07402; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.07402

Recommended with a commentary by Stefano Martiniani, New York University
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Picoscale structural insight into superconductivity of monolayer FeSe/SrTiO₃
Authors: Rui Peng, Ke Zou, M. G. Han, Stephen D. Albright, Hawoong Hong, Claudia Lau, H. C. Xu, Yimei Zhu, F. J. Walker, and C. H. Ahn
Sci. Adv. 6, eaay4517 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4517

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, National Tsinghua University
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1. Effects of topological constraints on linked ring polymers in solvents of varying quality
Authors: Z. Dehaghani, I. Chubak, C. Likos, and M. Ejtehadi
Soft Matter 16, p. 3029 (2020); DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02374G

2. Circular Polycatenanes: Supramolecular Structures with Topologically Tunable Properties
Authors: L. Tubiana, F. Ferrari, and E. Orlandini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 227801 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.227801

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University
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Elastocaloric determination of the phase diagram of Sr₂RuO₄
Authors: Y.-S. Li, M. Garst, J. Schmalian, S. Ghosh, N. Kikugawa, D. A. Sokolov, C. W. Hicks, F. Jerzembeck, M. S. Ikeda, Z. Hu, B. J. Ramshaw, A. W. Rost, M. Nicklas, and A. P. Mackenzie
Nature 607, 276 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04820-z

Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si, Rice University
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Quantum chaos challenges many-body localization
Authors: Jan Šuntajs, Janez Bonča, Tomaž Prosen, and Lev Vidmar
Phys. Rev. E 102, 062144 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.062144

Recommended with a commentary by Dries Sels (New York University & Flatiron Institute) and Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University)
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_01
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Uncovering conformal symmetry in the 3D Ising transition: State-operator correspondence from a fuzzy sphere regularization
Authors: Wei Zhu, Chao Han, Emilie Huffman, Johannes S. Hofmann, and Yin-Chen He
arXiv:2210.13482; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.13482

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University
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Nonmutual torques and the unimportance of motility for long-range order in two-dimensional flocks
Authors: Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi, Jitendra Kethapelli, Rahul Chajwa, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Ananyo Maitra
Phys. Rev. E 101, 052601 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.052601

Recommended with a commentary by Alexandre Solon, Sorbonne Université and CNRS
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Gate-tunable heavy fermions in a moiré Kondo lattice
Authors: Wenjin Zhao, Bowen Shen, Zui Tao, Zhongdong Han, Kaifei Kang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kin Fai Mak, and Jie Shan
arXiv:2211.00263; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2211.00263

Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Finding two-level systems in glasses through machine learning
Authors: Simone Ciarella, Dmytro Khomenko, Ludovic Berthier, Felix C. Mocanu, David R. Reichman, Camille Scalliet, and Francesco Zamponi
arXiv:2212.05582; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.05582

2. Depletion of two-Level systems in ultrastable computer-generated glasses
Authors: Dmytro Khomenko, Camille Scalliet, Ludovic Berthier, David R. Reichman, and Francesco Zamponi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 225901 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.225901

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California
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Extended Charge Layers in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Nanocapacitors Revealed by Operando Electron Holography
Authors: C. Gatel, R. Serra, K. Gruel, A. Masseboeuf, L. Chapuis, R. Cours, L. Zhang, B. Warot-Fonrose, and M. J. Hÿtch
Physical Review Letters 129, 137701 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.137701

Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Ionic liquids behave as dilute electrolyte solutions
Authors: M. A. Gebbie, M. Valtiner, X. Banquy, E. T. Fox, W. A. Henderson, and J. N. Israelachvili
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 110, 9674 (2013); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307871110

2. The electrostatic screening length in concentrated electrolytes increases with concentration
Authors: A. M. Smith, A. A. Lee, and S. Perkin
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 2157 (2016); DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00867

3. Underscreening in concentrated electrolytes
Authors: A. A. Lee and C. S. Perez-Martinez and A. M. Smith, and S. Perkin
Faraday Discuss. 199, 239 (2017); DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00250A

Recommended with a commentary by Christian Holm, University of Stuttgart, and Svyatoslav Kondrat, University of Stuttgart and Polish Academy of Sciences
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A Quantum Inspired Approach to Exploit Turbulence Structures
Authors: Nikita Gourianov, Michael Lubasch, Sergey Dolgov, Quincy Y. van den Berg, Hessam Babaee, Peyman Givi, Martin Kiffner, and Dieter Jaksch
Nature Computational Science 2, 30–37 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s43588-021-00181-1

Recommended with a commentary by E. Miles Stoudenmire, Flatiron Institute
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1. Monitored Quantum Dynamics of the Kitaev Spin Liquid
Authors: Ali Lavasani, Zhu-Xi Luo, and Sagar Vijay
arXiv:2207.02877; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.02877

2. Topology, criticality, and dynamically generated qubits in a stochastic measurement-only Kitaev model
Authors: Adithya Sriram, Tibor Rakovsky, Vedika Khemani, and Matteo Ippoliti
arXiv:2207.07096; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.07096

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego
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1. Experimental signature of the parity anomaly in a semi-magnetic topological insulator
Authors: M. Mogi, Y. Okamura, M. Kawamura, R. Yoshimi, K. Yasuda, A. Tsukazaki, K. S. Takahashi, T. Morimoto, N. Nagaosa, M. Kawasaki, Y. Takahashi, and Y. Tokura
Nature Physics 18, 390 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01490-y
arXiv:2105.04127

2. Half-quantized Hall effect and power law decay of edge-current distribution
Authors: J.-Y. Zou, B. Fu, H.-W. Wang, Z.-A. Hu, and S.-Q. Shen
Phys. Rev. B 105, L201106 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L201106
arXiv:2202.08493

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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1. Freely Flowing Currents and Electric Field Expulsion in Viscous Electronics
Authors: Michael Shavit, Andrey Shytov, and Gregory Falkovich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026801 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.026801

2. Imaging hydrodynamic electrons flowing without Landauer–Sharvin resistance
Authors: C. Kumar, J. Birkbeck, J. A. Sulpizio, D. Perello, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, O. Reuven, T. Scaffidi, Ady Stern, A. K. Geim, and S. Ilani
Nature 609, 276 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05002-7

3. Spread and erase – How electron hydrodynamics can eliminate the Landauer-Sharvin resistance
Authors: Ady Stern, Thomas Scaffidi, Oren Reuven, Chandan Kumar, John Birkbeck, and Shahal Ilani
arXiv: 2110.15369 (2021); DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2110.15369

Recommended with a commentary by Aaron Hui and Brian Skinner, Ohio State University
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Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands
Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Bowen Shen, Yang Zhang, Lizhong Li, Zui Tao, Trithep Devakul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak
Nature 600, 641 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04171-1

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University
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1. RNA phase transitions in repeat expansion disorders
Authors: A. Jain and R. D. Vale
Nature 546, 243–247 (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nature22386

2. Condensates in RNA repeat sequences are heterogeneously organized and exhibit reptation dynamics
Authors: H. T. Nguyen, N. Hori, and D. Thirumalai
Nature Chemistry 14, 775–785 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-00934-z

Recommended with a commentary by Omar A. Saleh, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Minimal quantum viscosity from fundamental physical constants
Authors: K. Trachenko and V. V. Brazhkin
Science Advances, 6, eaba 3747 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3747

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University
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