Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Femtosecond dynamics of the collinear-to-spiral antiferromagnetic phase transition in CuO Authors: S. L. Johnson, R. A. de Souza, U. Staub, P. Beaud, E. Mohr-Vorobeva, G. Ingold, A. Caviezel, V. Scagnoli, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, O. Krupin, W.-S. Lee,Y.-D. Chuang, L. Patthey, R. G. Moore, D. Lu, M. Yi, P. S. Kirchmann, M. […]

Sampling rare events in nonequilibrium and nonstationary systems, Authors: J. T. Berryman and T. Schilling, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244101 (2010) Recommended and a commentary by Mike Allen, University of Warwick |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_01

Time-reversal symmetry breaking and spontaneous Hall effect without magnetic order Authors: Yo Machida, Saturo Nakatsuji, Shigeki Onoda, Takashi Tayama, and Toshiro Sakakibara Nature, 463, 210, 2010. Recommendation and Commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02

1. Braiding of Abelian and non-Abelian anyons in the fractional quantum Hall effect Authors: S. An, P. Jiang, H. Choi, W. Kang, S.H. Simon, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, and K.W. Baldwin arXiv:1112.3400 2. Telegraph noise and the Fabry-Perot quantum Hall interferometer Authors: B. Rosenow and S.H. Simon arXiv:1111.6475 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, […]

1. Macroscopic Torsional Strain and Induced Molecular Conformational Deracemization Authors: R. Basu, J. S. Pendery, R. G. Petschek, R. P. Lemieux, and C. Rosenblatt Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 237804 (2011) Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, Kent State University |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2012_02

1. Quantum Ripples in Strongly Correlated Metals Authors: E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljevic Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236401 (2010) 2. Energy-Resolved Spatial Inhomogeneity of Disordered Mott Systems Authors: E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljevic Physica B 404, 3167 (2009) 3. Electronic Griffiths Phase of the d = 2 Mott Transition […]

Vacancy-stabilized crystalline order in hard cubes Authors: F. Smallenburg, L. Filion, M. Marechal, M. Dijkstra, arXiv:1111.3466v2. Recommended and a commentary by Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge. | View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2011_01

1. The role of attractive forces in viscous liquids Authors: L. Berthier and Gilles Tarjus, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 214503 (2011). 2. Testing “microscopic” theories of glass-forming liquids Authors: L. Berthier and Gilles Tarjus, Eur. Phys. E 34, 96 (2011). Recommended and a commentary by S. A. Kivelson, Stanford University. | View Commentary (pdf) | […]

1. Non-mean-eld theory of anomalously large double-layer capacitance. Authors: M. S. Loth, Brian Skinner and B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. E 82, 016107 (2010). 2. Model of large volumetric capacitance in graphene supercapacitors based on ion clustering Authors: Brian Skinner, M. M. Fogler and B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235133 (2011) . Recommended […]

1. Inherited adaptation of genome-rewired cells in response to a challenging environment Authors: Lior David, Elad Stolovicki, Efrat Haziz and Erez Braun HFSP J. 4, 131 (2010) Recommended and a Commentary by Yitzhak Rabin, Bar-Ilan University |View Commentary(PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_01

1. Extremely strong-coupling superconductivity in artificial two-dimensional Kondo lattices Authors: Y. Mizukami, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, M. Shimozawa, S. Yasumoto, D. Watanabe, M.Yamashita, H. Ikeda, T. Terashima, H. Kontani and Y. Matsuda Nature Physics 7, 849–853 (2011) Recommended and a Commentary by Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |View Commentary(PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_02

Sediments of soft spheres arranged by effective density Authors: César Gonzáles Serrano, Joseph J. McDermott, and Darrell Velegol Nature Materials 10, 716 (2011) Recommended with a Commentary by Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_01

1. Superconductor-insulator transition in La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} at the pair quantum resistance Authors: A. T. Bollinger, G. Dubuis, J. Yoon, D. Pavuna, J. Misewich, and I. Bozovic Nature 472, 458-460 (2011) 2. Electrostatic control of the evolution from a superconducting phase to an insulating phase in ultrathin YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-x} films Authors: X. Leng, J. Garcia-Barriocanal, S. Bose, Y. […]

Electrically tunable surface-to-bulk coherent coupling in topological insulator thin films. Authors: H. Steinberg, J.-B. Laloo, V. Fatemi, J. S. Moodera, P. Jarillo-Herrero arXiv:1104.1404 (2011) Tunable surface conductivity in Bi2Se3 revealed in diffusive electron transport Authors: J. Chen, X. Y. He, K. H. Wu, Z. Q. Ji, L. Lu, J. R. Shi, J. H. Smet, and […]

1. Broken Symmetry States and Divergent Resistance in Suspended Bilayer Graphene Authors: Benjamin E. Feldman, Jens Martin, and, Amir Yacoby arXiv:0909.2883, Nature Physics 5, 889 (2009) 2. Local Compressibility Measurements of Correlated States in Suspended Bilayer Graphene Authors: Jens Martin, Benjamin E. Feldman, R. Thomas Weitz, Monica T. Allen, and Amir Yacoby arXiv:1009.2069, Phys. Rev. […]

1. Computational Topology for Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks Authors: Gunnar Carlsson, Jackson Gorham, Matthew Kahle, and Jeremy Mason arXiv:1108.5719 Recommended with a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA. |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_02

1. Electronic Phase Separation at the LaAlO(3)/SrTiO(3) Interface Authors: Ariando, X. Wang, G. Baskaran, Z. Q. Liu, J. Huijben, J. B. Yi, A. Annadi, A. Roy Barman, A. Rusydi, S. Dhar, Y. P. Feng, J. Ding, H. Hilgenkamp, and T. Venkatesan Nature Communications 2, 188 (2011). 2. Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Two Dimensions […]

Static Friction Coefficient Is Not a Material Constant Authors: Oded Ben-David and Jay Fineberg PRL 106, 254301 (2011) Recommended with a commentary by Robert W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | View Commentary (PDF) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2011_01

Strain-Induced PseudoMagnetic Fields Greater Than 300 Tesla in Graphene Nanobubbles, Authors: N. Levy, S. A. Burke, K. L. Meaker, M. Panlasigui, A. Zettl, F. Guinea, A. H. Castro Neto and M. F. Crommie, Science 30 July 2010: Vol. 329 no. 5991 pp. 544-547 Recommended with a Commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley, CA |View Commentary […]

1. Local stabilizer codes in three dimensions without string logical operators Author: Jeongwan Haah Phys. Rev. A 83, 042330 (2011) 2. On the energy landscape of 3D spin Hamiltonians with topological order Authors: Sergey Bravyi and Jeongwan Haah arXiv:1105:4159 Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo, RWTH, Aachen and Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany |View Commentary (PDF)| […]