Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to molecular Bose-Einstein condensate transition Authors: Zhendong Zhang, Liangchao Chen, Kaixuan Yao, and Cheng Chin arXiv:2006.15297 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_02

Osmotic pressure between arbitrarily charged planar surfaces: A revisited approach Authors: Ram M. Adar and David Andelman Eur. Phys. J. E. (2018) 41: 11; DOI 10.1140/epje/i2018-11620-1 Recommended with a commentary by Didier R. Long, Laboratoire Polymères et Matériaux Avancés, UMR 5268 Solvay/CNRS |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2020_03

Quantum eigenstates from classical Gibbs distributions Authors: Pieter W. Claeys and Anatoli Polkovnikov arXiv:2007.07264 Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2020_01

Discovery of segmented Fermi surface induced by Cooper pair momentum Authors: Zhen Zhu, Michał Papaj, Xiao-Ang Nie, Hao-Ke Xu, Yi-Sheng Gu, Xu Yang, Dandan Guan, Shiyong Wang, Yaoyi Li, Canhua Liu, Jianlin Luo, Zhu-An Xu, Hao Zheng, Liang Fu, and Jin-Feng Jia arXiv:2010.02216 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary […]

1. Nonlinear flow response of soft hair beds Authors: José Alvarado, Jean Comtet, Emmanuel de Langre, and A. E. Hosoi Nature Physics 13, 1014-1019, (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nphys4225 2. Bending and Stretching of Soft Pores Enable Passive Control of Fluid Flows Authors: Jean-François Louf, Jan Knoblauch, and Kaare H. Jensen Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 098101 (2020); […]

Simulations of Nanoseparated Charged Surfaces Reveal Charge-Induced Water Reorientation and Nonadditivity of Hydration and Mean-Field Electrostatic RepulsionAuthors: Alexander Schlaich, Alexandre P. dos Santos, and Roland R. NetzLangmuir 35, 551–560 (2019); DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03474 Recommended with a commentary by Albert Johner, Institut Charles Sadron Strasbourg |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as:DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2020_01https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2020_01

1. Forces between solid surfaces in aqueous electrolyte solutions Authors: Alexander M.Smith, Michal Borkovec, and Gregor Trefalt Adv. Colloid. Int. Sci. 275, 102078, (2020); DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2019.102078 2. Forces between silica particles in isopropanol solutions of 1:1 electrolytes Authors: Biljana Stojimirovi?, Marco Galli, and Gregor Trefalt Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 023315 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023315 Recommended with […]

Observation of small Fermi pockets protected by clean CuO2 sheets of a high-Tc superconductor Authors: So Kunisada, Shunsuke Isono, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shiro Sakai, Cédric Bareille, Shunsuke Sakuragi, Ryo Noguchi, Kifu Kurokawa, Kenta Kuroda, Yukiaki Ishida, Shintaro Adachi, Ryotaro Sekine, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Shik Shin, Takami Tohyama, Kazuyasu Tokiwa, and Takeshi Kondo Science 369 […]

1. Exceptional E8 symmetry in spin dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8 Authors: Haiyuan Zou, Y. Cui, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. Yang, G. Xu, A. Okutani, M. Hagiwara, M. Matsuda, G. Wang, G. Mussardo, K. Hódsági, M. Kormos, Z. Z. He, S. Kimura, Rong Yu, Weiqiang Yu, Jie Ma, and Jianda Wu arXiv:2005.13302 2. Observation […]

1. Nature of symmetry breaking at the excitonic insulator transition: Ta2NiSe5 Authors: G. Mazza, M. Rösner, L. Windgätter, S. Latini, H. Hübener, A. J. Millis, A. Rubio, and A. Georges Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197601 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.197601 2. Nonlinear spectroscopy of collective modes in excitonic insulator Authors: D. Golež, Z. Sun, Y. Murakami, A. […]

Diffusio-osmosis and wetting on solid surfaces: a unified description based on a virtual work principle Authors: Nigel Clarke, Nigel Gibbions and Didier R. Long Soft Matter 16, 3485 (2020); DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02118C Recommended with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2020_03

Fractional statistics in anyon collisions Authors: H. Bartolomei, M. Kumar, R. Bisognin, A. Marguerite, J.-M. Berroir, E. Bocquillon, B. Plaçais, A. Cavanna, Q. Dong, U. Gennser, Y. Jin, and G. Fève Science 368, 173–177 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5601 Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited […]

Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics at the ν = 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state Authors: James Nakamura, Shuang Liang, Geoffrey C. Gardner, and Michael J. Manfra arXiv:2006.14115 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University) and Charles M. Marcus (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and Microsoft Quantum Lab–Copenhagen) |View Commentary (pdf)| […]

Observation of a marginal Fermi glass using THz 2D coherent spectroscopy Authors: Fahad Mahmood, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Rahul Nandkishore, and N.P. Armitage arXiv:2005.10822 Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran, University of Oxford |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2020_01

1. Backflow Transformations via Neural Networks for Quantum Many-Body Wave-Functions Authors: D. Luo and B. K. Clark Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 226401 (2019); DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.226401 arXiv:1807.10770 2. Ab-Initio Solution of the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks Authors: D. Pfau, J. S. Spencer, A. G. de G. Matthews, and W. M. C. Foulkes arXiv:1909.02487 3. […]

AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression Authors: Silviu-Marian Udrescu and Max Tegmark Sci. Adv. 6 : eaay2631, 2020; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2631 Recommended with a commentary by Ilya Nemenman, Emory University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2020_02

1. The interplay of insulating and superconducting orders in magic-angle graphene bilayers Authors: Petr Stepanov, Ipsita Das, Xiaobo Lu, Ali Fahimniya, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frank H. L. Koppens, Johannes Lischner, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov arXiv:1911.09198 2. Decoupling superconductivity and correlated insulators in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Yu Saito, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, […]

1. Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator Authors: Hannes Bernien, Sylvain Schwartz, Alexander Keesling, Harry Levin, Ahmed Omran, Hannes Pichler, Soonwon Choi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Manuel Endres, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić and Mikhail D. Lukin Nature 551, 579-584 (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nature24622 arXiv:1707.04344 2. Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many body scars Authors: C. […]

1. Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics Authors: G. Duclos, R. Adkins, D. Banerjee, M. S. E. Peterson, M. Varghese, I. Kolvin, A. Baskaran, R. A. Pelcovits, T. R. Powers, A. Baskaran, F. Toschi, M. F. Hagan, S. J. Streichan, V. Vitelli, D. A. Beller, and Z. Dogic Science 367, 1120 (2020); DOI: […]

Time’s Arrow and the Fragility of Topological Phases Authors: Max McGinley and Nigel R. Cooper arXiv:2003.08120 Recommended with a commentary by Michael Zaletel, University of California, Berkeley |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2020_03