Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid Authors: Y. Kasahara, T. Ohnishi, Y. Mizukami, O. Tanaka, Sixiao Ma, K. Sugii, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, J. Nasu, Y. Motome, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda arXiv:1805.05022 Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB. |View Commentary […]

1. High pressure floating-zone growth of perovskite nickelate LaNiO3 single crystals Authors: Junjie Zhang, Hong Zheng, Yang Ren and J. F. Mitchell arXiv:1705.00570 2. LaNiO3 – a highly metallic and antiferromagnetic strongly correlated transition metal oxide Authors: Z. W. Li, H. Guo, Z. Hu, L. Zhao, C.-Y. Kuo, W. Schmidt, A. Piovano, T. W. Pi, […]

Floquet Time Crystals. Authors: Dominic V. Else, Bela Bauer, and Chetan Nayak. arXiv:1603.08001 Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, UCSB. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2016_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2016_01

Thermal Hall conductivity in the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Tb2Ti2O7. Authors: Max Hirschberger, Jason W. Krizan, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong. arXiv:1502.02006(2015) Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_02

1. Non-Fermi liquid and topological states with strong spin-orbit coupling Authors: E-G. Moon, C. Xu, Y. B. Kim, and L. Balents Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 206401 (2013) 2. Superconductivity on the brink of spin-charge order in doped honeycomb bilayer Authors: O. Vafek, J. M. Murry, and V. Cvetkovic Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147002 (2014) 3. […]

Are non-Fermi-liquids stable to Cooper pairing? Authors: Max A. Metlitski, David F. Mross, Subir Sachdev, T. Senthil. arXiv:1403.3694(2014) Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2014_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2014_01

1. Evidence for Helical Nuclear Spin Order in GaAs Quantum Wires Authors: C. P. Scheller, T.-M. Liu, G. Barak, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, and D. M. Zumbühl arXiv:1306.1940 Recommended with a Commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2013_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2013_01

1. Identifying Topological Order by Entanglement Entropy. Authors: Hong-Chen Jiang, Zhenghan Wang, and Leon Balents. arXiv:1205.4289v1 2. Nature of the Spin Liquid Ground State of the S = 1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Model. Authors: Stefan Depenbrock, Ian P. McCulloch, and Ulrich Schollwoeck. arXiv:1205.4858v1 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: […]

1. Electrostatic carrier doping of GdTiO3 /SrTiO3 interfaces. Authors: Pouya Moetakef, Tyler Cain, Daniel G. Ouellette, Jack Y. Zhang, Dmitri O. Klenov, Anderson Janotti, Chris G. Van de Walle, Siddharth Rajan, S. James Allen, and Susanne Stemmer. Appl. Phys. Lett. 99 232116, (2011) 2. Carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in SrTiO3. Authors: Pouya Moetakef, James R. Williams, Daniel […]

Time-reversal symmetry breaking and spontaneous Hall effect without magnetic order Authors: Yo Machida, Saturo Nakatsuji, Shigeki Onoda, Takashi Tayama, and Toshiro Sakakibara Nature, 463, 210, 2010. Recommendation and Commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02

1. Pseudogap of metallic layered nickelate R2-xSrxNiO4 (R=Nd, Eu) crystals measured using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy Authors: M. Uchida, K. Ishizaka, P. Hansmann, Y. Kaneko, Y. Ishida, X. Yang, R. Kumai, A. Toschi, Y. Onose, R. Arita, K. Hel, O. K. Andersen, S.Shin, Y. Tokura arXiv:1012.5516 2. Phase-Sensitive Observation of a Spin-Orbital Mott State in Sr2IrO4 Authors: B. […]

1) Magnetic monopoles in spin ice Authors: C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner, and SL Sondhi ArXiv:0710.5515, Nature, 451 (7174):42-45, 2008. 2) Signature of magnetic monopole and Dirac string dynamics in spin ice Authors: LDC Jaubert and PCW Holdsworth ArXiv:0903.1074, Nature Physics, 5(4):258-261, 2009. 3) Measurement of the charge and current of magnetic monopoles in spin ice […]

A. Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene Authors: A. C. Kane and G. Mele http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411737 Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226801 (2005) B. Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells Authors: A. Bernevig, T. Hughes, S.C. Zhang http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611399 Science, 314, 1757 (2006) C. Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures Authors: J. […]

Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University | View Contributions | Vivek Aji, University of California, Riverside |  View Contributions | Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology | View Contributions | David Andelman, Tel Aviv University | View Contributions | Philip Anderson, Princeton University, Princeton | View Contributions | Arezoo M. Ardekani, University of Notre Dame | View Contributions | […]

Authors: Gang Chen, Doron L. Bergman, and Leon Balents arXiv.org/cond-mat/0703631 Recommended with a commentary by Leonid Glazman, Minnesota | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_May07_01

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. […]

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)