Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Authors: M. Wyart, S. Nagel, T. Witten http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409687 Recommended and a Commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, ENS, Paris.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar05_01)

Authors: K. McElroy, D.-H. Lee, J. E. Hoffman, K. M Lang, E. W. Hudson, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. Lee, J.C. Davis http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0404005 Nature 428, 542 (2004) Recommended and Commentary by Joe Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jul04_02)

Authors: F.Sciortino, S.Mossa, E.Zoccarelli and P.Tartaglia http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0312161 Recommended and a Commentary by Frenkel, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun04_03)

Authors: Julien Gabelli, Laure-Helene Reydellet, Gwendal Feve,  Jean-Marc Berroir, Bernard Placais, Patrice Roche, Christian Glattli. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0403584 Recommended and a Commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Lorentz Institute, Leiden University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr04_01)

1. Formation Mechanism and Low-Temperature Instability of Exciton Rings Authors: L.V.Butov et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308117 Phys.Rev. Letters, 92, 117404 (2004) 2. Charge Separation of Dense Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gases: Mechanism for Exciton Ring Pattern Formation Authors: R.Rapaport et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308150 Phys. Rev. Letters, 92, 117405, (2004) Recommended and a Commentary by: Peter Littlewood, University of Cambridge and […]

Authors: H.C. Liu, C. Y. Song, Z. R. Wasilewski, et al. (Phys. Rev Lett. 90, 077402 (2003) Recommended and a Commentary by: Claire Gmachl, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Dec03_01)

Authors: Richard L. Weaver and Oleg I. Lobkis Phys. Rev. Letters, 87, 134301 (2001) Recommended and a Commentary by: Al Migliori, Los alamos National Laboratory | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Nov03_02)

Instability of Laughlin FQH liquids into gapless power-law correlated states with continuous exponents in ideal Chern bands: rigorous results from plasma mapping Authors: Saranyo Moitra and Inti Sodemann Villadiego arXiv:2509.18265, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.18265 Recommended with a commentary by Trithep Devakul , Stanford University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2025_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2025_01

1. Magic sizes enable minimal-complexity, high-fidelity assembly of programmable shells Authors: B. Tyukodi, F. Caballero, D. Hayakawa, D. M. Hall, W. B. Rogers, G. M. Grason, and Michael F. Hagan Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 118203, (2025), DOI: 10.1103/5yjp-kx2j 2. The polyhedral structure underlying programmable self-assembly Authors: M. C. Hübl, T. E. Videbæk, D. Hayakawa, W. […]

1. Robust field re-entrant superconductivity in ferromagnetic infinite-layer rare-earth nickelates Authors: Mingwei Yang, Jiayin Tang, Xianfeng Wu, Heng Wang, Wenjing Xu, Haoliang Huang, Zhicheng Pei, Wenjie Meng, Guangli Kuang, Jinfeng Xu, Sixia Hu, Chuanying Xi, Li Pi, Qingyou Lu, Ziqiang Wang, Qikun Xue, Zhuoyu Chen, and Danfeng Li arxiv:2508.14666, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.14666 2. Extreme magnetic field-boosted […]

1. Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order and its realization in qLDPC codes Authors: Benedikt Placke, Tibor Rakovszky, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, and Vedika Khemani arxiv:2412.13248, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.13248 2. Expansion creates spin-glass order in finite-connectivity models: a rigorous and intuitive approach from the theory of LDPC codes Authors: Benedikt Placke, Grace M. Sommers, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Tibor […]

Observation of the Axion quasiparticle in 2D MnBi2Te4 Authors: J. X. Qiu, B. Ghosh, J. Schütte-Engel, et al. Nature 641, 62 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08862-x Recommended with a commentary by Taige Wang and Dung-Hai Lee , University of California, Berkeley |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2025_02

A resonant valence bond spin liquid in the dilute limit of doped frustrated Mott insulators Authors: Cecilie Glittum, Antonio Štrkalj, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Paul A. Goddard, Cristian D. Batista, and Claudio Castelnovo Nat. Phys. (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02923-8 Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may […]

An efficient and exact noncommutative quantum Gibbs sampler Authors: Chi-Fang Chen, Michael J. Kastoryano, and András Gilyén arXiv:2311.09207, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.09207 Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , UC Berkeley and LBNL |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2025_02

1. Chiral split magnon in altermagnetic MnTe Authors: Z. Liu, M. Ozeki, S. Asai, S. Itoh, and T. Masuda Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156702 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.156702 2. Circular dichroism in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering: Probing altermagnetic domains in MnTe Authors: D. Takegami, T. Aoyama, T. Okauchi, T. Yamaguchi, S. Tippireddy, S. Agrestini, M. García-Fernández, […]

Polymer physics by quantum computing Authors: C. Micheletti, P. Hauke, and P. Faccioli Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080501 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.080501 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2025_02

1. High-temperature field-free superconducting diode effect in high-Tc cuprates Authors: Shichao Qi, Jun Ge, Chengcheng Ji, Yiwen Ai, Gaoxing Ma, Ziqiao Wang, Zihan Cui, Yi Liu, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang Nature Communications 16, 531 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55880-4 2. Superconducting diode effect and interference patterns in kagome CsV3Sb5 Authors: Tian Le, Zhiming Pan, Zhuokai Xu, […]

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Liquid Water Are Marginal for Its Average Structure but Significant for Dynamics Authors: Nore Stolte, János Daru, Harald Forbert, Jörg Behler, and Dominik Marx J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 12144 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02925 Recommended with a commentary by David Beyer (University of Stuttgart) and Zhen-Gang Wang (Caltech) |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

Pair Wavefunction Symmetry in UTe2 from Zero-Energy Surface State Visualization Authors: Qiangqiang Gu, Shuqiu Wang, Joseph P. Carroll, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas P. Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Xiaolong Liu, J.C. Séamus Davis, and Dung-Hai Lee Science 388, 938-944 (2025), DOI: 10.1126/science.adk7219 arXiv:2501.16636, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.16636 Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. […]

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice Authors: Bastián Pradenas, Grigor Adamyan, and Oleg Tchernyshyov arXiv:2504.12411, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.12411 Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran , University of Oxford |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2025_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2025_03