Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Melting of the Vortex Lattice through Intermediate Hexatic Fluid in an a-MoGe Thin Film Authors: I. Roy, S. Dutta, A. N. R. Choudhury, S. Basistha, I. Maccari, S. Mandal, J. Jesudasan, V. Bagwe, C. Castellani, L. Benfatto, and P. Raychaudhuri Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 047001 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047001 2. Evidence of Quantum Vortex Fluid […]

1. Delayed instabilities in viscoelastic solids through a metric description Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati arXiv:1711.09491 2. The metric description of viscoelasticity and instabilities in viscoelastic solids Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati arXiv:1806.01237 Recommended with a commentary by Sam Dillavou and Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02

Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on SrTiO3 Authors: Louis Veyrat, Corentin Déprez, Alexis Coissard, Xiaoxi Li, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Han, Benjamin A. Piot, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé arXiv:1907.02299 Recommended with a commentary by Leonid I. Glazman, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03