Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Tetrahedral colloidal clusters from random aggregation of bidisperse spheres. Authors: Nicholas B. Schade, Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon, Elizabeth R. Chen, Dina Aronzon, Jesse W. Collins, Jonathan A. Fan, Federico Capasso, Vinothan N. Manoharan. arXiv:1201.3952. Recommended with a commentary by M. E. Cates, SUPA, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: […]

1. Statistical-Physics-Based Reconstruction in Compressed Sensing. Authors: F. Krzakala, M. Mézard, F. Sausset, Y. F. Sun, and L. Zdeborová. Phys. Rev. X 2, 021005 (2012). 2. Probabilistic reconstruction in compressed sensing: algorithms, phase diagrams, and threshold achieving matrices. Authors: Florent Krzakala, Marc Mézard, Francois Sausset, Yifan Sun and Lenka Zdeborová. J. Stat. Mech. (2012) P08009. […]

1. Discovery of the First Topological Kondo Insulator: SmB6. Authors: S. Wolgast, C. Kurdak, K. Sun, J. W. Allen, D-J. Kim and Z. Fisk. ArXiv.org/1211.5104. 2. Robust Surface Hall Effect and Non-local Transport in SmB6: Indication for an ideal Topological Insulator. Authors: J. Botimer, D-J. Kim, S. Thomas, T. Grant, Z. Fisk and X. Jia. […]