Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Active Brownian particles and run-and-tumble particles separate inside a maze. Authors: M. Khatami, K. Wolff, O. Pohl, M.R. Ejtehadi, and H. Stark. Scientific Reports 6, Article No: 37670 (2016) [doi:10.1038/srep37670], arXiv:1611.00191 Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Oxford University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02

Observation of Half-Quantum Vortices in Topological Superfluid 3-He. Authors: S. Autti, V. V. Dmitriev, J. T. Maskinen, A. A. Soldatov, G. E. Volovik, A. N. Yudin, V. V. Zavjalov and V. B. Eltsov. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 255301 (2016), arXiv:1508.02197 Recommended with a commentary by Tony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |View Commentary| DOI: […]

1. Experimental realization of a long-range antiferromagnet in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms. Authors: A. Mazurenko, C. S. Chiu, G. Ji, M. F. Parsons, M. Kanasz-Nagy, R. Schmidt, F. Grusdt, E. Demler, D. Greif, and M. Greiner. arXiv:1612.08436 Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_02

1. Pomeranchuk instability and response beyond the quasiparticle regime. Authors: Egor I. Kiselev, Mathias S. Scheurer, Peter Wölfle, and Jörg Schmalian. arXiv:1611.01442 2.Conservation and persistence of spin currents and their relation to the Lieb-Schulz-Mattis twist operators. Authors: N. Bray-Ali and Z. Nussinov. Phys. Rev. B 80, 012401 (2009) Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, […]

1. Consistency of Photoemission and Quantum Oscillations for Surface States of SmB6. Authors: J. D. Denlinger, Sooyoung Jang, G. Li, L. Chen, B. J. Lawson, T. Asaba, C. Tinsman, F. Yu, Kai Sun, J. W. Allen, C. Kurdak, Dae-Jong Kim, Z. Fisk, Lu Li. arXiv:1601.07408 2. Low-temperature conducting state in two candidate topological Kondo insulators: […]

1. High-Pressure Hydrogen Sulfide from First Principles: A Strongly Anharmonic Phonon-Mediated Superconductor. Authors: Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Chris J. Pickard, Joseph Nelson, Richard J. Needs, Yinwei Li, Hanyu Liu, Yunwei Zhang, Yanming Ma and Francesco Mauri. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 157004 (2015) 2. Perspective: Role of Structure Prediction in Materials Discovery and Design. Authors: Richard […]

1. Topological Acoustics. Authors: Zhaoju Yang, Fei Gao, Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin, Zhen Gao, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 114301 (2015) 2. Topological sound in active-liquid metamaterials. Authors: Anton Souslov, Benjamin C. van Zuiden, Denis Bartolo, and Vincenzo Vitelli. ArXiv: 1610.06873 Recommended with a commentary by M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University. […]

1. No-Enclave Percolation Corresponds to Holes in the Cluster Backbone. Authors: Hao Hu, Robert M. Ziff, and Youjin Deng. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 185701, 2016 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick and Greg Huber, ITP, Santa Barbara. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01

1. Perspective on the phase diagram of cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Authors: D. Rybicki, M. Jurkutat, S. Reichardt, C. Kapusta, and J. Haase. arXiv:1511.02408; Nature Communications 7, Article number: 11413 (2016) 2. Bulk superconductivity at 84 K in the strongly overdoped regime of cuprates. Authors: A. Gauzzi, Y. Klein, M. Nisula, M. Karppinen, P. K. Biswas, […]

1. Signatures of Dirac cones in a DMRG study of the Kagome Heisenberg model. Authors: Yin- Chen He, Michael P. Zaletel, Masaki Oshikawa, and Frank Pollmann. arXiv:1611.06238 2. Competing Spin Liquid Phases in the S=1/2 Heisenberg Model on the Kagome Lattice. Authors: Shenghan Jiang, Panjin Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Ying Ran. arXiv:1610.02024 Recommended with a […]

1. Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet. Author: S. Sachdev and J. Ye. Phys.Rev.Lett. 70, 3339 (1993) 2. A bound on chaos. Authors: J. Maldacena, S. H. Shenker, and D. Stanford. JHEP 8 (2016) 106, hep-th/1503.01409 Recommended with a commentary by Michael Mulligan, UC Riverside . |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03

1. Growth against entropy in bacterial metabolism: the phenotypic trade-off behind empirical growth rate distributions in E. coli. Author: Daniele De Martino, Fabrizio Capuani, and Andrea De Martino. Physical Biology 13, 036005 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Kirill Korolev, Boston University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02

1. Transport evidence for Fermi-arc-mediated chirality transfer in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2. Author: P. J. W. Moll, N. L. Nair, T. Helm, A. C. Potter, I. Kimchi, A. Vishwanath, J. G. Analytis. Nature 535, 266 (2016) 2. Current at a Distance and Resonant Transparency in Weyl Semimetals. Authors: Y. Baum, E. Berg, S. A. Parameswaran, […]

1. Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision. Author: B. Radha, A. Esfandiar, F. C. Wang, A. P. Rooney, K. Gopinad- han, A. Keerthi, A. Mishchenko, A. Janardanan, P. Blake, L. Fumagalli, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. Garaj, S. J. Haigh, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature19363 (2016) 2. Sieving hydrogen […]

Stochastic thermodynamics of active matter. Author: T.Speck. EPL 114 30006 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_01

Quantum Entanglement Growth Under Random Unitary Dynamics. Authors: Adam Nahum, Jonathan Ruhman, Sagar Vijay and Jeongwan Haah. arXiv: 1608.06950 Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, Colorado University, Boulder. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_03

Nanoscale thermal imaging of dissipation in quantum systems. Authors: D. Halbertal, J. Cuppens, M. Ben Shalom, L. Embon, N. Shadmi, Y. Anahory, H. R. Naren, J. Sarkar, A. Uri, Y. Ronen, Y. Myasoedov, L. S. Levitov, E. Joselevich, A. K. Geim, and E. Zeldov. arXiv: 1609.01487 Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard […]

Continuous Rotation of Achiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets Driven by Heat Flux. Authors: Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Guilhem Poy, and Patrick Oswald. Physical Review Letters 117, 057801 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, Kent State University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_03

Dependence of the critical temperature in overdoped copper oxides on superfluid density. Authors: I. Bozovic, X. He, J. Wu, and A. T. Bollinger. Nature 536, 309 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_01

Information capacity of specific interactions. Authors: M. H. Huntley, A. Murugan, and M. P. Brenner. PNAS 113, 58415846 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_02