Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

It is commonly believed that these days Physicists get most of their information on developments in Physics over the internet. In condensed matter physics a good fraction of it is first published in the cond-mat archives. This fraction will inevitably increase. The intent of this Journal Club is to use the internet to satisfy a […]

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)