A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
1. Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Matthew Yankowitz, Shaowen Chen, Hryhoriy Polshyn, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, David Graf, Andrea F. Young, Cory R. Dean Science 24 Jan 2019: eaav1910 2. Emergent ferromagnetism near three-quarters filling in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Aaron L. Sharpe, Eli J. Fox, Arthur W. Barnard, Joe Finney, Kenji Watanabe, […]
1. Artifact Free Transient Near-Field Nanoscopy Authors: A. J. Sternbach, J. Hinton, T. Slusar, A. S. McLeod, M. K. Liu, A. Frenzel, M. Wagner, R. Iraheta, F. Keilmann, A. Leitenstorfer, M. Fogler, H.-T. Kim, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov Optics Express 25, 28589 (2017), arXiv:1706.08478 2. Photonic crystals for nano-light in moir graphene […]
How geometric frustration shapes twisted fibres, inside and out: competing morphologies of chiral filament assembly Authors: Douglas M. Hall and Gregory M. Grason Interface Focus 7: 20160140 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Roya Zandi, University of California, Riverside|View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_02
CPT-Symmetric Universe Authors: Latham Boyle, Kieran Finn, and Neil Turok Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 251301 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_01
Solving Statistical Mechanics using Variational Autoregressive Networks Authors: Dian Wu, Lei Wang, and Pan Zhang arXiv:1809.10606 Recommended with a commentary by Giuseppe Carleo, Flatiron Institute. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_02
1. Observation of a robust zero-energy bound state in iron-based superconductor Fe(Te,Se) Authors: J. X. Yin, Zheng Wu, J. H. Wang, Z. Y. Ye, Jing Gong, X. Y. Hou, Lei Shan, Ang Li, X. J. Liang, X. X. Wu, Li Jian, C.S. Ting, Z. Q. Wang, J. P. Hu, P. H. Hor, H. Ding and […]
Models and algorithms for the next generation of glass transition studies Authors: Andrea Ninarello, Ludovic Berthier, and Daniele Coslovich Phys. Rev. X 7, 021039 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Giulio Biroli, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_01
1. Monte Carlo Studies of Quantum Critical Metals Authors: E. Berg, S. Lederer, Y. Schattner, and S. Trebst Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, arXiv:1804.01988 2. Superconductivity mediated by quantum critical antiferromagnetic fluctuations: The rise and fall of hot spots Authors: X. Wang, Y. Schattner, E. Berg, and R. M. Fernandes Physical Review B 95, […]
1. Origin of Mott Insulating Behavior and Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Authors: Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, Ashvin Vishwanath, and T. Senthil arXiv:1803.09742, Phys. Rev. X 8, 031089 (2018) 2. Symmetry, Maximally Localized Wannier States, and a Low-Energy Model for Twisted Bilayer Graphene Narrow Bands Authors: Jian Kang and Oskar Vafek arXiv:1805.04918, Phys. Rev. […]
Bad metallic transport in a cold atom Fermi-Hubbard system Authors: Peter T. Brown, Debayan Mitra, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Reza Nourafkan, Alexis Reymbaut, Simon Bergeron, A.-M. S. Tremblay, Jure Kokalj, David A. Huse, Peter Schaus, and Waseem S. Bakr arXiv:1802.09456 Recommended with a commentary by Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_01
Spatial mapping of band bending in semiconductor devices using in situ quantum sensors Authors: D.A. Broadway, N. Dontschuk, A. Tsai, S. E. Lillie, C. T.-K. Lew, J. C. McCallum, B. C. Johnson, M. W. Doherty, A. Stacey, L. C. L. Hollenberg & J.-P. Tetienne Nature Electronics 1, 502–507 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Toeno […]
Strong coupling in conserved surface roughening: A new universality class? Authors: F. Caballero, C. Nardini, F. van Wijland, and M. E. Cates arXiv:1803.09525, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 020601 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_02
1. Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K in Lanthanum superhydride at megabar pressures Authors: Maddury Somayazulu, Muhtar Ahart, Ajay K Mishra, Zachary M. Geballe, Maria Baldini, Yue Meng, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Russell J. Hemley arXiv:1808.07695 2. Superconductivity at 215 K in Lanthanum hydride at high pressures Authors: A. P. Drozdov, V. S. Minkov, S. […]
Localization in fractonic random circuits Authors: Shriya Pai, Michael Pretko, and Rahul M. Nandkishore arXiv:1807.09776 Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_01
Langevin Dynamics with Space-Time Periodic Nonequilibrium Forcing Authors: R. Joubaud, G. A. Pavliotis, and G. Stoltz Journal of Statistical Physics, v. 158, n. 1, pp. 1-36, 2015 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_02
1. Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit Authors: B. Huang, G. Clark, E. Navarro-Moratalla, D. R. Klein, R. Cheng, K. L. Seyler, D. Zhong, E. Schmidgall, M. A. McGuire, D. H. Cobden, W. Yao, Di Xiao, P. Jarillo-Herrero, and X. Xu Nature 546, 270 (2017) 2. Giant tunneling […]
Tunable excitons in bilayer graphene Authors: Long Ju, Lei Wang, Ting Cao, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Steven G. Louie, Farhan Rana, Jiwoong Park, James Hone, Feng Wang, and Paul L. McEuen Science 358, 1314 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_02
Theory of liquid crystal elastomers and polymer networks: connection between neoclassical theory and differential geometry Authors: Thanh-Son Nguyen and Jonathan V. Selinger Eur. Phys. J. E (2017) 40: 76 Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University. |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_03
Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid Authors: Y. Kasahara, T. Ohnishi, Y. Mizukami, O. Tanaka, Sixiao Ma, K. Sugii, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, J. Nasu, Y. Motome, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda arXiv:1805.05022 Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB. |View Commentary […]
1. Many-body quantum chaos: Analytic connection to random matrix theory Authors: Pavel Kos, Marko Ljubotina, and Tomaž Prosen Phys. Rev. X 8, 021062 (2018) 2. Exact spectral form factor in a minimal model of many body quantum chaos Authors: Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen arXiv:1805.00931 Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, University […]