Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Two-level systems in evaporated amorphous silicon Authors: D.R. Queen, X. Liu, J. Karel, H.C. Jacks, T.H. Metcalf, F. Hellman J. Non-Cryst Sol 426, 19 (2015), arXiv:1506.04284v1 2. Supression of tunneling two-level systems in ultrastable glasses of indomethacin Authors: Tomás Pérez-Castañeda, Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco, Javier Rodríguez-Viejob, and Miguel A. Ramos Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, […]

1. A mechanism of e2/2h conductance plateau without 1D chiral Majorana fermions Authors: Wenjie Ji and Xiao-Gang Wen arXiv:1708.06214 2. Disorder-induced half-integer quantized conductance plateau in quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structures Authors: Yingyi Huang, F. Setiawan, and Jay D. Sau arXiv:1708.06752 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_01 […]

Random Matrices and Complexity of Spin Glasses Authors: Antonio Auffinger, Gérard Ben Arous, Ji?í ?erný Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 66, 165-201 (2013) Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_02

Exact critical exponents for the antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal in two dimensions Authors: Andres Schlief, Peter Lunts, and Sung-Sik Lee Phys. Rev. X 7, 021010 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Andrey V Chubukov, University of Minnesota. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_03

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. Geometric frustration and compatibility conditions for two dimensional director fields Authors: Idan Niv and Efi Efrati arXiv:1706.08187 2. Geometrical frustration yields fibre formation in self-assembly Authors: Martin Lenz and Thomas A. Witten Nature Physics (2017) doi:10.1038/nphys4184 Recommended with a commentary by Gregory M. Grason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_02

1. Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe Authors: P. O. Sprau, A. Kostin, A. Kreisel, A. E. Böhmer, V. Taufour, P. C. Canfield, S. Mukherjee, P. J. Hirschfeld, B. M. Andersen, J. C. Séamus Davis Science 357, 75 (2017) 2. Formation of Hubbard-like bands as a fingerprint of strong electron-electron interactions in FeSe Authors: […]

Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor structure Authors: Qing Lin He, Lei Pan, Alexander L. Stern, Edward C. Burks, Xiaoyu Che, Gen Yin, Jing Wang, Biao Lian, Quan Zhou, Eun Sang Choi, Koichi Murata, Xufeng Kou, Zhijie Chen, Tianxiao Nie, Qiming Shao, Yabin Fan, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Kai Liu, Jing Xia, and […]

Revealing the frictional transition in shear thickening suspensions Authors: Cécile Cavaud, Antoine Bérut, Bloen Metzger, and Yoël Forterre PNAS 114, 5147 (2017) Recommended with a commentary by Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2017_02

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, […]

Direct Comparison of Fractional and Integer Quantized Hall Resistance Authors: Franz J. Ahlers, Martin Götz, and Klaus Pierz arXiv:1703.05213 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_02

Compaction and segregation of sister chromatids via active loop extrusion Authors: Anton Goloborodko, Maxim V. Imakaev, John F. Marko, Leonid Mirny eLife 5, e14864 (2016) Recommended with a commentary by Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_03

1. Self-Learning Monte Carlo Method: Continuous-Time Algorithm Authors: Yuki Nagai, Huitao Shen, Yang Qi, Junwei Liu, and Liang Fu arXiv:1705.06724 2. Can Boltzmann Machines Discover Cluster Updates? Authors: Lei Wang arXiv:1702.08586 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_01

1. Robust fractional quantum Hall states and continuous quantum phase transitions in a half-filled bilayer graphene Landau level Authors: Alexander A. Zibrov, Carlos. R. Kometter, Haoxin Zhou, Eric M. Spanton, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:1611.07113 2. Even denominator fractional quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene Authors: J. I. […]

Squirmers in nematic liquid crystals: Guiding microswimmers by an anisotropic medium Authors: Juho S. Lintuvuori, Alois Würger, and Kevin Stratford arXiv:1705.02147 Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_03

1. Kinetics of biopolymerization on nucleic acid templates Authors: C. T. MacDonald, J. H. Gibbs and A. C. Pipkin Biopolymers, 6(1), pp.1-25 (1968) 2. Bethe solution for the dynamical-scaling exponent of the noisy Burgers equation Authors: Leh-Hun Gwa and Herbert Spohn Phys. Rev. A 46, 844 (1992) 3. Exactly Solvable Models for Many-Body Systems Far […]

1. Barnett effect in paramagnetic states Authors: Masao Ono, Hiroyuki Chudo, Kazuya Harii, Satoru Okayasu, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Ryo Takahashi, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Eiji Saitoh Phys. Rev. B 92, 174424 (2015) 2. Observation of Barnett fields in solids by nuclear magnetic resonance Authors: Hiroyuki Chudo, Masao Ono, Kazuya Harii, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Rie […]

Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system Authors: Soonwon Choi, Joonhee Choi, Renate Landig, Georg Kucsko, Hengyun Zhou, Junichi Isoya, Fedor Jelezko, Shinobu Onoda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Vedika Khemani, Curt von Keyserlingk, Norman Y. Yao, Eugene Demler, and Mikhail D. Lukin Nature 543, 221225 (2017), arXiv:1610.08057 Recommended with a commentary by Rahul […]

Theory of enhanced interlayer tunneling in optically driven high-Tc superconductors. Authors: J. Okamoto, A. Cavalleri, and L. Mathey. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227001 (2016), arXiv:1606.09276 Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_01

Active Brownian particles and run-and-tumble particles separate inside a maze. Authors: M. Khatami, K. Wolff, O. Pohl, M.R. Ejtehadi, and H. Stark. Scientific Reports 6, Article No: 37670 (2016) [doi:10.1038/srep37670], arXiv:1611.00191 Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Oxford University. |View Commentary| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02