Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. A quantum sensor for atomic-scale electric and magnetic fields Authors: Taner Esat, Dmitriy Borodin, Jeongmin Oh, Andreas J. Heinrich, F. Stefan Tautz, Yujeong Bae, and Ruslan Temirov arXiv to appear (Preprint is available upon request from the authors) 2. Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs Authors: Yu Wang, Yi […]

1. Many-Species Ecological Fluctuations as a Jump Process from the Brink of Extinction Authors: Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey and Guy Bunin Phys. Rev. X 14, 011037 (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011037 2. Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs Authors: Aditya Mahadevan, Michael T Pearce, and Daniel S Fisher eLife 12:e82734 (2023) DOI: […]

1. Superfluid fraction in an interacting spatially modulated Bose-Einstein condensate Authors: R G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.226003 arXiv:2302.01776; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.01776 2. Observation of anisotropic superfluid density in an artificial crystal […]

1. Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems Authors: Kohei Kawabata, Ramanjit Sohal, and Shinsei Ryu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070402 (2024) and supplemental material DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.070402 2. Reviving the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems Authors: Yi-Neng Zhou, Xingyu Li, Hui Zhai, Chengshu Li, and Yingfei Gu arXiv:2310.01475; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.01475 Recommended with a commentary by […]

How to assemble a scale-invariant gradient Authors: Arnab Datta, Sagnik Ghosh and Jane Kondev eLife 11:e71365; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71365 Recommended with a commentary by Arjun Narayanan, New York University Abu Dhabi |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_02

Majorana chain and Ising model — (non-invertible) translations, anomalies, and emanant symmetries Authors: Nathan Seiberg and Shu-Heng Shao arXiv:2307.02534; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.02534 Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil , Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_03

1. Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials Authors: L. Chen, A. X. Wu, N. Tulu, J. Wang, A. Juanson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. T. Pettes, M. Campbell, C. A. Gadre, Y. Zhou, H. Chen, P. Cao, L. A. Jauregui, R. Wu, X. Pan, and […]

1. Theory of fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moiré structures Authors: Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil arXiv:2311.03445; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.03445 2. Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects in rhombohedral multilayer graphene in the moiréless limit and in Coulomb imprinted superlattice Authors: Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang arXiv:2311.04217; DOI: […]

Backbone exponent for two-dimensional percolation Authors: Pierre Nolin, Wei Qian, Xin Sun, and Zijie Zhuang arXiv:2309.05050; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.05050 Recommended with a commentary by Ilya A. Gruzberg (The Ohio State University) and Greg Huber (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub – San Francisco) |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2023_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2023_01

1. Unconventional Magnetic Oscillations in Kagome Mott Insulators Authors: Guoxin Zheng, Yuan Zhu, Kuan-Wen Chen, Byungmin Kang, Dechen Zhang, Kaila Jenkins, Aaron Chan, Zhenyuan Zeng, Aini Xu, Oscar A. Valenzuela, Joanna Blawat, John Singleton, Patrick A. Lee, Shiliang Li, and Lu Li arXiv:2310.07989; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07989 2. Dirac quantum spin liquid emerging in a kagome-lattice antiferromagnet […]

Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Graphene Moire Superlattice Authors: Zhengguang Lu, Tonghang Han, Yuxuan Yao, Aidan P. Reddy, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, and Long Ju arXiv:2309.17436; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.17436 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: […]

Driving force and pathway in polyelectrolyte complex coacervation Authors: Shensheng Chen and Zhen-Gang Wang PNAS, v. 119, n. 36, p. e2209975119 (2022); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209975119 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2023_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2023_01

1. A multiplayer multiteam nonlocal game for the toric code Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi Phys. Rev. B 107, 035409 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.035409 2. Playing nonlocal games with phases of matter Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi Phys. Rev. B 107, 045412 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.045412 Recommended with a […]

Superconductivity near 80 Kelvin in single crystals of La3Ni2O7 under pressure Authors: H. Sun, M. Huo, X. Hu, J. Li, Y. Han, L. Tang, Z. Mao, P. Yang, B. Wang, J. G. Cheng, D.-X. Yao, G.-M. Zhang, and M. Wang Nature 621, 493 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06408-7 Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si , Rice […]

Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions as the Organizing Principle of a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet Authors: Alexander Wietek and Sylvain Capponi and Andreas M. Läuchli arXiv:2303.01585; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.01585 Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore , University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

1. Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures Authors: Zhiren Zheng, Qiong Ma, Zhen Bi, Sergio de la Barrera, Ming-Hao Liu, Nannan Mao, Yang Zhang, Natasha Kiper, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jing Kong, William A. Tisdale, Ray Ashoori, Nuh Gedik, Liang Fu, Su-Yang Xu, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Nature 588, 71–76 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2970-9 2. Giant ferroelectric polarization […]

Nonreciprocal interactions give rise to fast cilium synchronisation in finite systems Authors: David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan PNAS 120, 40, e2307279120 (2023); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307279120 Recommended with a commentary by Bryan VanSaders , Drexel University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2023_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2023_03

Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry Authors: Haidong Tian, Xueshi Gao, Yuxin Zhang, Shi Che, Tianyi Xu, Patrick Cheung, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mohit Randeria, Fan Zhang, Chun Ning Lau, and Marc W. Bockrath Nature 614, 440 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05576-2 arXiv:2112.13401 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Leiden University […]

1. Anisotropy as a diagnostic test for distinct tensor-network wave functions of integer- and half-integer-spin Kitaev quantum spin liquids Authors: Hyun-Yong Lee, Takafumi Suzuki, Yong Baek Kim, and Naoki Kawashima Phys. Rev. B 104, 024417 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024417 2. Z2 Spin Liquids in the Higher Spin-S Kitaev Honeycomb Model: An Exact Deconfined Z2 Gauge Structure […]

1. Single electron-spin-resonance detection by microwave photon counting Authors: Z. Wang, L. Balembois, M. M. Rančić, E. Billaud, M. Le Dantec, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Bertaina, T. Chanelière, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin Nature 619, 276–281 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06097-2 2. Practical Single Microwave Photon Counter with 10-22 W/√Hz sensitivity Authors: […]