Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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)

Authors: David S. Dean, David Lancaster, and Satya N. Majumdar http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0411111 Recommended and Commentary by Deepak Dhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar05_02)

Authors: S. Paschen, T. Luhmann, S. Wirth, P. Gegenwart, O. Trovarelli, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, P. Coleman, and Qimiao Si http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0411074 Recommended and Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar05_03)

Authors: T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, P. Maioli, A. Auffeves, G. Nogues, M. Burne, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 010401 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Feb05_01)

1. Pulled Fronts and the Reproductive Individual Fluctuation-regularized Front Propagation Dynamics Authors: Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406336 2. An exactly soluble noisy traveling wave equation appearing in the problem of directed polymers in a random medium Authors: Eric Brunet and Bernard Derrida http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409261 Recommended and Commentary by Leo P. Kadanoff, University […]

Authors: M.L. Della Rocca, M. Aprili, T. Knotos, A. Gomez, and P. Spatkis http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0501459 Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Feb05_03)