Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. High-temperature topological superconductivity in twisted double layer copper oxides Authors: Oguzhan Can, Tarun Tummuru, Ryan P. Day, Ilya Elfimov, Andrea Damascelli, and Marcel Franz Nature Physics 17, 519-524 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01142-7 arXiv:2012.01412 2. Magic angles and current-induced topology in twisted nodal superconductors Authors: Pavel A. Volkov, Justin H. Wilson, and J. H. Pixley arXiv:2012.07860 […]

Induced superconductivity in the fractional quantum Hall edge Authors: Önder Gül, Yuval Ronen, Si Young Lee, Hassan Shapourian, Jonathan Zauberman, Young Hee Lee, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, Amir Yacoby, and Philip Kim arXiv:2009.07836 Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: […]

Observation of superconducting diode effect Authors: Fuyuki Ando, Yuta Miyasaka, Tian Li, Jun Ishizuka, Tomonori Arakawa, Yoichi Shiota, Takahiro Moriyama, Youichi Yanase, and Teruo Ono Nature, 584, 373 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2590-4 Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2021_02

Anisotropy links cell shapes to tissue flow during convergent extension Authors: X. Wang, M. Merkel, L. B. Sutter, G. Erdemci-Tandogan, M. L. Manning, and K. E. Kasza Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117, 13541-13551 (2020); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916418117 Recommended with a commentary by John D. Treado (Yale University), Dong Wang (Yale University), Yuxuan Cheng (Yale University), Mark […]

1. Quantum Zeno effect and the many-body entanglement transition Authors: Y. Li, X. Chen, and M.P. A. Fisher Phys. Rev. B 98, 205136 (2018); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.205136 2. Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Entanglement Authors: B. Skinner, J. Ruhman, and A. Nahum Phys. Rev. X 9, 031009 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031009 3. Unitary-projective entanglement dynamics […]

The Topological Origin of the Peierls-Nabarro Barrier Authors: Brook J. Hocking, Helen S. Ansell, Randall D. Kamien, and Thomas Machon arXiv:2103.0205 (2021) Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner, Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2021_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2021_03

Absence of superconductivity in the pure two-dimensional Hubbard Model Authors: Mingpu Qin, Chia-Min Chung, Hao Shi, Ettore Vitali, Claudius Hubig, Ulrich Schollwöck, Steven R. White, and Shiwei Zhang (Simons Collaboration on the Many-Electron Problem) Phys. Rev. X 10, 031016 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031016 Recommended with a commentary by Andrey V Chubukov, University of Minnesota |View Commentary […]

Turing’s diffusive threshold in random reaction-diffusion systems Authors: Pierre A. Haas and Raymond E. Goldstein bioRxiv:2020.11.09.374934v1; DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.09.374934 Recommended with a commentary by Changbong Hyeon, Korea Institute for Advanced Study |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2021_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2021_01

1. Magic Angle Hierarchy in Twisted Graphene Multilayers Authors: E. Khalaf, A. J. Kruchkov, G. Tarnopolsky, and A. Vishwanath Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.085109 arXiv:1901.10485 2. Tunable Phase Boundaries and Ultra-Strong Coupling Superconductivity in Mirror Symmetric Magic-Angle Trilayer Graphene Authors: JM Park, Y. Cao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and P. Jarillo-Herrero arXiv:2012.01434 […]

Controlling many-body dynamics with driven quantum scars in Rydberg atom arrays Authors: Dolev Bluvstein Dolev Bluvstein, Ahmed Omran, Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Giulia Semeghini, Sepehr Ebadi, Tout T. Wang, Alexios A. Michailidis, Nishad Maskara, Wen Wei Ho, Soonwon Choi, Maksym Serbyn, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, and Mikhail D. Lukin arXiv:2012.12276 Recommended with a commentary by […]

1. Signatures of bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure Authors: You Zhou, Jiho Sung, Elise Brutschea, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Giovanni Scuri, Ryan J. Gelly, Hoseok Heo, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Gergely Zaránd, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Kim, Eugene Demler, and Hongkun Park arXiv:2010.03037 2. Observation of Wigner crystal of electrons in […]

1. Multicellular Rosettes Drive Fluid-solid Transition in Epithelial Tissues Authors: Le Yan and Dapeng Bi Phys. Rev. X 9, 011029 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011029 2. Bayesian inference of force dynamics during morphogenesis Authors: Shuji Ishihara and Kaoru Sugimura Journal of Theoretical Biology 313 (2012) 201–211; DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.08.017 Recommended with a commentary by Silke Henkes, University of […]

1. Isospin Pomeranchuk effect and the entropy of collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Yu Saito, Fangyuan Yang, Xiaoxue Liu, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, J. I. A. Li, Erez Berg, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:2008.10830 2. Entropic evidence for a Pomeranchuk effect in magic angle graphene Authors: Asaf Rozen, Jeong Min Park, […]

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 […]