Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Welcome to the monthly selection of interesting papers in condensed matter physics by distinguished correspondents and comments on those papers by members. Learn More about the Journal Club: Intents of the Journal Club Organizers, Advisory Committee, and Correspondents in the last two years Correspondents prior to last two years Guidelines for Correspondents Guidelines for citing […]

Authors: Srdjan Ostojic, Ellak Somfai and Bernard Nienhuis http://ArXiV.org/cond-mat/0601047 (Nature,  439, 828 (2006)) Recommended and a Commentary by R.P. Behringer, Duke University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep06_01)

Authors: Jing-qiao Zhang, Sergey Vitalkov, A. A. Bykov, K. Kalagin and A. K. Bakarov http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0607741 Recommended and Commentary by Rafael de Picciotto, Bell Laboratories.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep06_02)

Authors: S. Wessel and M. Troyer http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505298 Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 95, 127205 (2005) Authors: D. Heidarian and K. Damle http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505257 Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 95, 127206 (2005) Authors: R. G. Melko, A. Paramekanti, A. A. Burkov, A. Vishwanath, D. N. Sheng, and L. Balents http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505258 Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 95, 127207 (2005) Authors: R. […]

1. Stochastic gene expressionin a fluctuating environment Authors: M. Thattai and A. van Oudenaarden Science, vol. 167, 523 (2004) 2. Phenotypic diversity, population growth, and information in fluctuating environments Authors: E. Kussell and S. Liebler Science, vol. 309, 2075 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_August06_01)

1. Elimination of the supersolid phase through crystal annealing Authors: Ann Sophie C. Rittner and John D. Reppy http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0604528 2. Superfluidity of grain boundaries and supersolid behavior Authors: S. Sasaki, R. Ishiguro, F. Caupin, H. J. Maris and S. Balibar Science Express, 3 Aug. 2006, p.1. Recommended and Commentary by A. J. Leggett, University of […]

Authors: Pankaj Mehta and Natan Andrei http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508026 Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 96, 216802 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Peter Woelfle, University of Karlsruhe. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_August06_03)

Authors: A. Kanigel, M.R. Norman, M. Randeria, U. Chatterjee, S. Suoma, A. Kaminski, H.M. Fretwell, S. Rozenkranz, M. Shi, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, Z.Z. Li, H. Raffy, K. Kadowaki, D. Hinks, L. Ozyuzer, and J. C. Campuzano http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0605499 (Nature, Phys. 2, 447 (2006)) Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary […]

Authors: S.O. Valenzuela and M. Tinkham http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605423 (Nature, in press) Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July06_02)

Authors: Gregory M. Grason and Robijn F. Bruinsma http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0601462 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 027802 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July06_03)

Authors: D. Collin, F. Ritort, C. Jarzynski, S. B. Smith, I. Tinoco Jr and C. Bustamante Nature 437 (8), 231-234 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June06_01)

(Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms) Authors: T. Kraemer, M. Mark, P. Waldburger, J. G. Danzl, C. Chin, B. Engeser, A. D. Lange, K. Pilch, A. Jaakkola, H. C. Naegerl, and R. Grimm Nature 440, 315, (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Tin-Lin Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary […]

Authors:  D. M. Broun, P. J. Turner, W. a. Huttema, S. Ozcan, B. Morgan, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy and D. A. Bonn http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509223 Recommended and Commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMasters University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun06_03)

Authors: Yong P. Chen, G.Sambandamurthy, Z. H. Wang, R. M. Lewis, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, P. D. Ye, N. L. Pfeiffer, K. W. West http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0604004 Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May06_01)

(Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in a Trapped Atomic Gas) Authors: Zoran Hadzibabic, Peter Krüger, Marc Cheneau, Baptiste Battelier, Jean B. Dalibard http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605291 (Nature, in press) Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May06_02)

Authors: B. N. J. Persson http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0603807 Recommended and Commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May06_03)

Authors: R. Liang, D.A.Bonn, and W.N.Hardy http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0510674 Recommended and a Commentary by S.A.Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr06_01)

Authors: B. Binz, A. Vishwanath and Vivek Aji http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0602529 Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr06_02)

Authors: Weihong Zheng, John O. Fjaerestad, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Ross H. McKenzie, Radu Coldea http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0506400 Recommended and a Commentary by Matthew Fisher, UCSB.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar06_01)

Authors: Shouhua Nie, Xuan Wang, Hyuk Park, Richard Clinite, Jianming Cao Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025901 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Albert Migliori, LANL, Los Alamos. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar06_03)