Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. The Fulde-Ferrel, Larkin-Ovchinikov state in superconductors: Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity from electron spin domains Authors: H.A. Radovan et al. Nature 425, 51 (2005) 2. Superconductivity in heavy fermion CeCoIn5 Authors: Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov , Int. Conf. on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2005 (SCES’05), Vienna, to be published in Physica B 3. Texture in the superconducting order […]

Authors: M. Hermele, G. Rafael, M. P. A. Fisher, P. M. Goldbart http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508301 Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_01)

Authors: M. König, A. Tschetschetkin, E. M. Hankiewicz, J. Sinova, V. Hock, V. Daumer, M. Schäfer, C. R. Becker, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508396 Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand  I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_02)

Authors: Cristina Toninelli, Matthieu Wyart, Ludovic Berthier, Guilio Biroli and Jean Philippe Bouchaud Phys Rev E 71, 041505 (2005) Recommended and Commentary by Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_03)

1. Continuum Model for Polymorphism in Bacterial Flagella Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 248101 2. Model for Polymorphic Transitions in Bacterial Flagella Authors: S. V. Srigiriraju and T.R. Powers http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509033 Recommended and a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep05_01)

1. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Cs2CuCl4 Authors: T. Radu, H. Wilhelm, V. Yushankhai, D. Kovrizhin, R. Coldea, Z. Tylczynski, T. Luhmann and F. Steglich Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127202 (2005) 2. Bose-Einstein Condensation of S=1 Ni Spin Degrees of Freedom in NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2 Authors: V.S. Zapf, D. Zocco, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, A. Lacerda, C.D. […]

Authors: F. R. Drymiotis et al. Phys. Rev. Letters, vol. 93, 025502-1-4 (2004) Authors: C. Pantea et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0509220 Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, Bell laboratories and University of California, Riverside.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep05_03)

Authors: D.M. Basko, I.L. Aleiner, and B.L. Altshuler http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0506617 Recommended and a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Aug05_01)

Authors: Wallraf, D.I. Schuster, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, J. Majer, S.M. Girvin, and R.J. Schoelkopf http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502645 Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 060501 (2005) Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Aug05_02)

1. Evidence for Charge Kondo Effect in Superconducting Ti-doped PbTe Authors: Y. Matsushita, H. Blum, T. H. Geballe, and I. R. Fisher http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409174 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157002 (2005) 2. Superconductivity in Charge Kondo Systems Authors: Maxim Dzero and Jörg Schmalian http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409171 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157003 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, […]

Authors: Y. Kurosaki et. al. http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0504273 Recommended and Commentary by Matthew Fisher, KITP, Santa Barbara.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July05_02)

Authors: M.B. Short, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018501 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT, and Wim van Saarloos, Institute-Lorentz, Leiden University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June05_01)

Authors: F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502406 Recommended and Commentary by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June05_02)

1. Universal adiabatic dynamics across a quantum critical point Authors:  Anatoli Polkovnikov http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0312144 2. Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition Authors: Wojciech H. Zurek, Uwe Dorner, and Peter Zoller http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503511 Recommended and Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun05_03)

Authors: S. Folling, F. Gerbier, A. Widera, O. Mandel, T. Gericke, and I. Bloch Nature 434, 481-484 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May05_01)

1. The structure of foam cells: Isotropic Plateau polyhedra Authors: S. Hilgenfeldt, A. M. Kraynik, D. A. Reinelt, and J.M. Sullivan Europhys. Lett. 67 (2004) 484 2. Analysis of 3-D network structures Author: M.E. Glicksman Philosophical Magazine 85 (2005) 3 3. Structure of Random Foam Authors: A.M. Kraynik, D.A. Reinelt, and F. van Swol Phys. […]

1. Efficient simulation of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems Authors: G.Vidal http://ArXiv.org/quant-ph/0310089 Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 040502 (2004) 2. Renormalization algorithms for Quantum-Many Body Systems in two and higher dimensions Authors: F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0407066 Recommended and Commentary by Steve White, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May05_03)

Authors: C. Goldenberg and I. Goldhirsch http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308603 Recommended and a Commentary by R. P. Behringer, Duke University, Durham, NC.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr05_01)

Authors: T. Senthil, L. Balents, S. Sachdev , A. Vishwanath, and M. P. A. Fisher http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312617 Physical Review B 70, 144407 (2004) Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr05_02)

Authors: A. Gaidarzhy, G. Zolfagharkhani, R. L. Badzey, and P. Mohanty http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503260 Recommended and Commentary by Al Migliori, Los Alamos National Labs. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr05_03)