Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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. […]

1. What buoyancy really is. A generalized Archimedes’ principle for sedimentation and ultracentrifugation. Authors: Roberto Piazza, Stefano Buzzaccaro, Eleonora Secchi and Alberto Parola. Soft Matter, 8, 7112 (2012). Recommended with a commentary by M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_01

1. Resonating Valence Bond States in the PEPS Formalism. Authors: Norbert Schuch, Didier Poilblanc, J. Ignacio Cirac, and David Perez-Garcia. Phys. Rev. B 86, 115108 (2012). Recommeded and a Commentary by David DiVincenzo, RWTH Aachen | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_02

1. Mott criticality and pseudogap in Bose-Fermi mixtures. Authors: E. Altman, E. Demler, and A. Rosch. arXiv:1205.4026. Recommended with a commentary by Matthias Vojta, TU Dresden, Germany | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_03

1. Direct observation of competition between superconductivity and charge density wave order in YBa2 Cu3 Oy. Authors: J. Chang, E. Blackburn, A. T. Holmes, N. B. Christensen, J. Larsen, J. Mesot, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, A. Watenphul, M. v. Zimmermann, E. M. Forgan and S. M. Hayden. arXiv:1206.4333. (Nat. Phys. published […]

1. Flagellar synchronization independent of hydrodynamic interactions. Authors: Benjamin M. Friedrich and Frank Julicher. PRL 109, 138102 (2012) Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2012_02

1. Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension. Authors: Thomas Gibaud, Edward Barry, Mark J. Zakhary, Mir Henglin, Andrew Ward, Yasheng Yang, Cristina Berciu, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Michael F. Hagan, Daniela Nicastro, Robert B. Meyer & Zvonimir Dogic. Nature 481, 348–351 (2012) Recommended with a Commentary by Efi Efrati, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago […]

1. Non-Fermi d-wave phases of strongly interacting electrons. Authors: Hong-Chen Jiang, Matthew Block, Ryan Mishmash, James Garrison, D.N. Sheng, Olexei Motrunich and Matthew P.A. Fisher. arXiv:1207.6608 . Recommended and a Commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2012_02

1. The Higgs amplitude mode at the two-dimensional superfluid/Mott insulator transition. Authors:Manuel Endres, Takeshi Fukuhara, David Pekker, Marc Cheneau, Peter Schau?, Christian Gross, Eugene Demler, Stefan Kuhr and Immanuel Bloch. Nature 487, 454 (2012). 2. Higgs Mode in a Two-Dimensional Superfluid. Authors: L. Pollet and N. Prokof’ev. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 010401 (2012). Recommended and […]

1. Disorder-driven quantum phase transition in superconductors and magnets. Authors: L.B. Ioffe and M.Mézard. Phys.Rev.Lett. 105, 037001 (2010) 2. Superconductor-insulator transition and energy localization. Authors: M.V. Feigel’man, L.B. Ioffe and M.Mézard. Phys. Rev.B 82, 184534 (2010) Recommended with a Commentary by Claudio Castellani, Universita’ di Roma “La Sapienza” | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2012_01 […]

1. Topological crystalline insulator states in Pb(1-x)Sn(x)Se. Authors: P. Dziawa, B. J. Kowalski, K. Dybko, R. Buczko, A. Szczerbakow, M. Szot, E. Lusakowska, T. Balasubramanian, B. M. Wojek, M. H. Berntsen, O. Tjernberg, T. Story. arXiv:1206.1705. 2. Observation of Topological Crystalline Insulator phase in the lead tin chalcogenide Pb1-xSnxTe material class. Authors: Su-Yang Xu, Chang […]

1. Optimal protocols and optimal transport in stochastic thermodynamics. Authors: E. Aurell, C. Mejia-Monasterio, P. Muratore-Ginanneschi. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250601 (2011). 2. Refined Second Law of Thermodynamics for Fast Random Processes. Authors: E. Aurell, K. Gawedzki, C. Mejia-Monasterio, R. Mohayaee,P. Muratore-Ginanneschi. Journal of Statistical Physics, 147, 487-505 (2012). 3. Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle […]

1. Non-Euclidean geometry of twisted lament bundle packing. Authors: Isaac R. Bruss and Gregory M. Grason. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (2012) 109, no. 27, 10781-10786. Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick, Soft Matter Pro- gram, Syracuse University | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2012_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2012_01

1. Theoretical Study of Possible Active Site Structures in Cobalt-Polypyrrole Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Authors: Z. Shi, H. Liu, K. Lee, E. Dy, J. Christunoff, M. Blair, P. Zelenay, J. Zhang, Z-S. Liu. J. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 16672-80 (2011). Recommended and a Commentary by Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Labs. | View Commentary […]

1. Interface-induced room-temperature multiferroicity in BaTiO3. Authors: S. Valencia, A. Crassous, L. Bocher, V. Garcia, X. Moya, R. O. Cheri?, C. Deranlot, K. Bouzehouane, S. Fusil, A. Zobelli, A. Gloter, N. D. Mathur, A. Gaupp, R. Abrudan, F. Radu, A. Barthélémy, and M. Bibes. Nature Materials 10, 753-758 (2011). Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi […]

1. Brownian dynamics: from glassy to trivial. Authors: H. Jacquin and F. van Wijland. arXiv:1206.1586v2 Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_02

1. Identifying Topological Order by Entanglement Entropy. Authors: Hong-Chen Jiang, Zhenghan Wang, and Leon Balents. arXiv:1205.4289v1 2. Nature of the Spin Liquid Ground State of the S = 1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Model. Authors: Stefan Depenbrock, Ian P. McCulloch, and Ulrich Schollwoeck. arXiv:1205.4858v1 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: […]

1. Electrostatic carrier doping of GdTiO3 /SrTiO3 interfaces. Authors: Pouya Moetakef, Tyler Cain, Daniel G. Ouellette, Jack Y. Zhang, Dmitri O. Klenov, Anderson Janotti, Chris G. Van de Walle, Siddharth Rajan, S. James Allen, and Susanne Stemmer. Appl. Phys. Lett. 99 232116, (2011) 2. Carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in SrTiO3. Authors: Pouya Moetakef, James R. Williams, Daniel […]

Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices. Authors: V. Mourik, K. Zuo, S.M. Frolov, S.R. Plissard, E.P.A.M. Bakkers, and L.P. Kouwenhoven. Science 336, 1003 (2012), arXiv:1204.2792 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_02

Elasticity of floppy and stiff random networks. Authors: M. Wyart, H. Liang, A. Kabla, and L. Madadevan. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 215501 (2008) Recommended with a commentary by Alex Levine, UCLA |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_03