A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
Finite-Temperature Quantum Topological Order in Three Dimensions Authors: Shu-Tong Zhou, Meng Cheng, Tibor Rakovszky, Curt von Keyserlingk, and Tyler D. Ellison Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 040402 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/n9sq-8cxw Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2026_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2026_03
1. Superfluid stiffness of twisted trilayer graphene superconductors Authors: Abhishek Banerjee, Zeyu Hao, Mary Kreidel, Patrick Ledwith, Isabelle Phinney, Jeong Min Park, Andrew Zimmerman, Marie E. Wesson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert M. Westervelt, Amir Yacoby, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Pavel A. Volkov, Ashvin Vishwanath, Kin Chung Fong, and Philip Kim Nature, volume 638, pages 93–98 (2025), […]
Signatures of Chiral Superconductivity in Rhombohedral Graphene Authors: Tonghang Han, Zhengguang Lu, Zach Hadjri, Lihan Shi, Zhenghan Wu, Wei Xu, Yuxuan Yao, Armel A. Cotten, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Shenyong Ye, Muyang Zhou, Haoyang Liu, Gang Shi, Zhenqi Hua, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Peng Xiong, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Liang Fu, […]
1. Theory of fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moiré structures Authors: Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil arXiv:2311.03445; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.03445 2. Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects in rhombohedral multilayer graphene in the moiréless limit and in Coulomb imprinted superlattice Authors: Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang arXiv:2311.04217; DOI: […]
Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Graphene Moire Superlattice Authors: Zhengguang Lu, Tonghang Han, Yuxuan Yao, Aidan P. Reddy, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, and Long Ju arXiv:2309.17436; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.17436 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: […]
Uncovering conformal symmetry in the 3D Ising transition: State-operator correspondence from a fuzzy sphere regularization Authors: Wei Zhu, Chao Han, Emilie Huffman, Johannes S. Hofmann, and Yin-Chen He arXiv:2210.13482; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.13482 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2023_02
1. Twisted van der Waals Josephson Junction Based on a High-Tc Superconductor Authors: Jongyun Lee, Wonjun Lee, Gi-Yeop Kim, Yong-Bin Choi, Jinho Park, Seong Jang, Genda Gu, Si-Young Choi, Gil Young Cho, Gil-Ho Lee, and Hu-Jong Lee Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 10469-10477; DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03906 2. Emergent Interfacial Superconductivity between Twisted Cuprate Superconductors Authors: S. Y. […]
1. High-temperature topological superconductivity in twisted double layer copper oxides Authors: Oguzhan Can, Tarun Tummuru, Ryan P. Day, Ilya Elfimov, Andrea Damascelli, and Marcel Franz Nature Physics 17, 519-524 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01142-7 arXiv:2012.01412 2. Magic angles and current-induced topology in twisted nodal superconductors Authors: Pavel A. Volkov, Justin H. Wilson, and J. H. Pixley arXiv:2012.07860 […]
Induced superconductivity in the fractional quantum Hall edge Authors: Önder Gül, Yuval Ronen, Si Young Lee, Hassan Shapourian, Jonathan Zauberman, Young Hee Lee, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, Amir Yacoby, and Philip Kim arXiv:2009.07836 Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: […]
1. Magic Angle Hierarchy in Twisted Graphene Multilayers Authors: E. Khalaf, A. J. Kruchkov, G. Tarnopolsky, and A. Vishwanath Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.085109 arXiv:1901.10485 2. Tunable Phase Boundaries and Ultra-Strong Coupling Superconductivity in Mirror Symmetric Magic-Angle Trilayer Graphene Authors: JM Park, Y. Cao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and P. Jarillo-Herrero arXiv:2012.01434 […]
1. Cyclotron orbit knot and tunable-field quantum Hall effect Authors: Yi Zhang Phys. Rev. Research 1, 022005(R) (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.022005 2. Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in Cd3As2 Authors: Cheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiang Yuan, Shiheng Lu, Jinglei Zhang, Awadhesh Narayan, Yanwen Liu, Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Ran Liu, Eun Sang Choi, Alexey […]
Fractional Excitonic Insulator Authors: Yichen Hu, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, C. L. Kane Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126601 (2018), arXiv:1806.05681 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)|
1. Origin of Mott Insulating Behavior and Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Authors: Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, Ashvin Vishwanath, and T. Senthil arXiv:1803.09742, Phys. Rev. X 8, 031089 (2018) 2. Symmetry, Maximally Localized Wannier States, and a Low-Energy Model for Twisted Bilayer Graphene Narrow Bands Authors: Jian Kang and Oskar Vafek arXiv:1805.04918, Phys. Rev. […]
Determining a local Hamiltonian from a single eigenstate Authors: Xiao-Liang Qi and Daniel Ranard arXiv:1712.01850 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_02
Filling-Enforced Gaplessness in Band Structures of the 230 Space Groups Authors: Haruki Watanabe, Hoi Chun Po, Michael P. Zaletel, and Ashvin Vishwanath Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 096404 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_01
1. Signatures of Dirac cones in a DMRG study of the Kagome Heisenberg model. Authors: Yin- Chen He, Michael P. Zaletel, Masaki Oshikawa, and Frank Pollmann. arXiv:1611.06238 2. Competing Spin Liquid Phases in the S=1/2 Heisenberg Model on the Kagome Lattice. Authors: Shenghan Jiang, Panjin Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Ying Ran. arXiv:1610.02024 Recommended with a […]
1. Transport evidence for Fermi-arc-mediated chirality transfer in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2. Author: P. J. W. Moll, N. L. Nair, T. Helm, A. C. Potter, I. Kimchi, A. Vishwanath, J. G. Analytis. Nature 535, 266 (2016) 2. Current at a Distance and Resonant Transparency in Weyl Semimetals. Authors: Y. Baum, E. Berg, S. A. Parameswaran, […]
Measuring entanglement entropy through the interference of quantum many-body twins. Authors: Rajibul Islam, Ruichao Ma, Philipp M. Preiss, M. Eric Tai, Alexander Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, Markus Greiner. arXiv:1509.01160 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2016_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2016_03
1.Is the composite fermion a Dirac particle? Authors:Dam Thanh Son. arXiv:1502.03446(2015) 2.Dual Dirac liquid on the surface of the electron topological insulator. Authors:Chong Wang and T. Senthil. arXiv:1505.05141(2015) 3.Particle-vortex duality of 2D Dirac fermion from electric-magnetic duality of 3D topological insulators. Authors:Max A. Metlitski and Ashvin Vishwanath. arXiv:1505.05142(2015) 4.Half-filled Landau level, topological insulator surfaces, and […]
1.Experimental observation of Weyl points. Authors: Ling Lu, Zhiyu Wang, Dexin Ye, Lixin Ran, Liang Fu, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljacic. arXiv:1502.03438 2.Experimental realization of a topological Weyl semimetal phase with Fermi arc surface states in TaAs. Authors: S.Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, N. Alidoust, M. Neupane, C. Zhang, R. Sankar, S.M. Huang, C.C. Lee, G. […]