Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Myungchul Oh, Kevin P. Nuckolls, Dillon Wong, Ryan L. Lee, Xiaomeng Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ali Yazdani Nature 600, 240–245 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04121-x arXiv:2109.13944 ; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2109.13944 2. Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene Authors: Hyunjin Kim, Youngjoon Choi, Cyprian Lewandowski, […]

1. Isospin magnetism and spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Yu Saito, Liam Cohen, William Huynh, Caitlin L. Patterson, Fangyuan Yang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:2110.11317 2. Superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Tian Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young Nature 598, 434–438 […]

1. Isospin Pomeranchuk effect and the entropy of collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Yu Saito, Fangyuan Yang, Xiaoxue Liu, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, J. I. A. Li, Erez Berg, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:2008.10830 2. Entropic evidence for a Pomeranchuk effect in magic angle graphene Authors: Asaf Rozen, Jeong Min Park, […]

1. The Hierarchy of Excitation Lifetimes in Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases Authors: Patrick J. Ledwith, Haoyu Guo, and Leonid Levitov arXiv:1905.03751 2. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D Electron Systems Authors: Lev Haldar Kendrick, Patrick J. Ledwith, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov arXiv:1810.07588 3. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D […]

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. […]

Anomalous elasticity, fluctuations and disorder in elastic membranes Authors: P. Le Doussal, and L. Radzihovsky arXiv:1708.05723, Annals of Physics (In Press) Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanscience, Madrid, and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2017_01

1. Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision. Author: B. Radha, A. Esfandiar, F. C. Wang, A. P. Rooney, K. Gopinad- han, A. Keerthi, A. Mishchenko, A. Janardanan, P. Blake, L. Fumagalli, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. Garaj, S. J. Haigh, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature19363 (2016) 2. Sieving hydrogen […]

1.Transport in inhomogeneous quantum critical fluids and in the Dirac fluid in graphene. Authors: Andrew Lucas, Jesse Crossno, Kin Chung Fong, Philip Kim, Subir Sachdev. arXiv:1510.01738 2.Observation of the Dirac fluid and the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law in graphene. Authors: Jesse Crossno, Jing K. Shi, Ke Wang, Xiaomeng Liu, Achim Harzheim, Andrew Lucas, Subir […]

Detecting Topological Currents in Graphene Superlattices Authors: R. V. Gorbachev, J. C. W. Song, G. L. Yu, A. V. Kretinin, F. Withers, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, L. S. Levitov, and A. K. Geim arXiv: 1409.0113 Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, CSIC |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_02

1. Designer Dirac fermions and topological phases in molecular graphene. Authors: Kenjiro K. Gomes, Warren Mar, Wonhee Ko, Francisco Guinea, Hari C. Manoharan. Nature 483, 306 (2012) Recommended with a commentary by Felix von Oppen, Freie Universität Berlin |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2013_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2013_03

1. Hofstadter’s butterfly in Moire superlattices: A fractal quantum Hall effect. Authors: C. R. Dean, L. Wang, P. Maher, C. Forsythe, F. Ghahari, Y. Gao, J. Katoch, M. Ishigami, P. Moon, M. Koshino, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, K. L. Shepard, J. Hone, P. Kim, arXiv:1212.4783. 2. Changes in Fermi surface topology and Hofstadter quantization in […]

1. Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging Authors: Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, A. S. McLeod, M. Wagner, L. M. Zhang, Z. Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, A. H. Castro-Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilmann, D. N. Basov, Nature 487, 82 (2012). 2. Optical nano-imaging […]

1. Broken Symmetry States and Divergent Resistance in Suspended Bilayer Graphene Authors: Benjamin E. Feldman, Jens Martin, and, Amir Yacoby arXiv:0909.2883, Nature Physics 5, 889 (2009) 2. Local Compressibility Measurements of Correlated States in Suspended Bilayer Graphene Authors: Jens Martin, Benjamin E. Feldman, R. Thomas Weitz, Monica T. Allen, and Amir Yacoby arXiv:1009.2069, Phys. Rev. […]

Strain-Induced PseudoMagnetic Fields Greater Than 300 Tesla in Graphene Nanobubbles, Authors: N. Levy, S. A. Burke, K. L. Meaker, M. Panlasigui, A. Zettl, F. Guinea, A. H. Castro Neto and M. F. Crommie, Science 30 July 2010: Vol. 329 no. 5991 pp. 544-547 Recommended with a Commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley, CA |View Commentary […]

1) Fractional quantum Hall effect and insulating phase of Dirac electrons in graphene Authors: Xu Du, Ivan Skachko, Fabian Duerr, Adina Luican, Eva Y. Andrei arXiv:0910.2532, Nature 462, 192 (2009) 2) Observation of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene Authors:  Kirill I. Bolotin, Fereshte Ghahari, Michael D. Shulman, Horst L. Stormer, Philip Kim arXiv: […]

1. The zero-energy state in graphene in a high magnetic field Authors: Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, N. P. Ong http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0708.1959, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206801 (2008) 2. Divergent resistance at the Dirac point in graphene: Evidence for a transition in a high magnetic field Authors: Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, N. P. Ong http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0808.0906, […]

Authors: Andrea F. Young and Philip Kim arXiv:0808.0855 Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary (pdf) |

Authors: R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A.N. Grigorenko, K.S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, A. K. Geim. http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3718 Science 320, 1308 (2008). Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary | JCCM_June08_02

Authors: J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and A. Yacoby http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2180 Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_July07_02

1. Strong suppression of weak (anti)localization in graphene Authors: S.V. Morozov, K.S. Novoselov, M.I. Katsnelson, F. Schedin, L.A. Ponomarenko, D. Jiang, A.K. Geim http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603826 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016801 (2006) 2. Bipolar supercurrent in graphene Authors: H. B. Heersche, P. Jarillo-Herrero, J. B. Oostinga, L. M. K. Van-dersypen, A. F. Morpurgo http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612121 Nature 446, 56 […]