Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. The role of attractive forces in viscous liquids Authors: L. Berthier and Gilles Tarjus, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 214503 (2011). 2. Testing “microscopic” theories of glass-forming liquids Authors: L. Berthier and Gilles Tarjus, Eur. Phys. E 34, 96 (2011). Recommended and a commentary by S. A. Kivelson, Stanford University. | View Commentary (pdf) | […]

1. Non-mean-eld theory of anomalously large double-layer capacitance. Authors: M. S. Loth, Brian Skinner and B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. E 82, 016107 (2010). 2. Model of large volumetric capacitance in graphene supercapacitors based on ion clustering Authors: Brian Skinner, M. M. Fogler and B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235133 (2011) . Recommended […]

1. Inherited adaptation of genome-rewired cells in response to a challenging environment Authors: Lior David, Elad Stolovicki, Efrat Haziz and Erez Braun HFSP J. 4, 131 (2010) Recommended and a Commentary by Yitzhak Rabin, Bar-Ilan University |View Commentary(PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_01

1. Extremely strong-coupling superconductivity in artificial two-dimensional Kondo lattices Authors: Y. Mizukami, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, M. Shimozawa, S. Yasumoto, D. Watanabe, M.Yamashita, H. Ikeda, T. Terashima, H. Kontani and Y. Matsuda Nature Physics 7, 849–853 (2011) Recommended and a Commentary by Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |View Commentary(PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_02

Sediments of soft spheres arranged by effective density Authors: César Gonzáles Serrano, Joseph J. McDermott, and Darrell Velegol Nature Materials 10, 716 (2011) Recommended with a Commentary by Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_01

1. Superconductor-insulator transition in La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} at the pair quantum resistance Authors: A. T. Bollinger, G. Dubuis, J. Yoon, D. Pavuna, J. Misewich, and I. Bozovic Nature 472, 458-460 (2011) 2. Electrostatic control of the evolution from a superconducting phase to an insulating phase in ultrathin YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-x} films Authors: X. Leng, J. Garcia-Barriocanal, S. Bose, Y. […]

Electrically tunable surface-to-bulk coherent coupling in topological insulator thin films. Authors: H. Steinberg, J.-B. Laloo, V. Fatemi, J. S. Moodera, P. Jarillo-Herrero arXiv:1104.1404 (2011) Tunable surface conductivity in Bi2Se3 revealed in diffusive electron transport Authors: J. Chen, X. Y. He, K. H. Wu, Z. Q. Ji, L. Lu, J. R. Shi, J. H. Smet, and […]

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. […]

1. Computational Topology for Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks Authors: Gunnar Carlsson, Jackson Gorham, Matthew Kahle, and Jeremy Mason arXiv:1108.5719 Recommended with a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA. |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_02

1. Electronic Phase Separation at the LaAlO(3)/SrTiO(3) Interface Authors: Ariando, X. Wang, G. Baskaran, Z. Q. Liu, J. Huijben, J. B. Yi, A. Annadi, A. Roy Barman, A. Rusydi, S. Dhar, Y. P. Feng, J. Ding, H. Hilgenkamp, and T. Venkatesan Nature Communications 2, 188 (2011). 2. Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Two Dimensions […]

Static Friction Coefficient Is Not a Material Constant Authors: Oded Ben-David and Jay Fineberg PRL 106, 254301 (2011) Recommended with a commentary by Robert W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | View Commentary (PDF) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2011_01

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. Local stabilizer codes in three dimensions without string logical operators Author: Jeongwan Haah Phys. Rev. A 83, 042330 (2011) 2. On the energy landscape of 3D spin Hamiltonians with topological order Authors: Sergey Bravyi and Jeongwan Haah arXiv:1105:4159 Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo, RWTH, Aachen and Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany |View Commentary (PDF)| […]

1. Growing interfaces uncover universal fluctuations behind scale invariance Authors: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masaki Sano, Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn Scientic Reports 1, 34 (2011) 2. Universal fluctuations of growing interfaces: evidence in turbulent liquid crystals Authors: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi and Masaki Sano Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230601 (2010) 3. One-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation: an exact […]

1. Superconductivity in the iron selenide KxFe2Se2 (0<=x<=1.0) Authors: J. G. Guo, S. F. Jin, G. Wang, S. Wang, K. Zhu, T. Zhou, M. He, and X. L. Chen arXiv:1012.2924, Phys. Rev. B 82, 180520(R) (2010) 2. Fe-based high temperature superconductivity with Tc=31K bordering an insulating antiferromagnet in (Tl,K)FexSe2 crystals Authors: Ming-Hu Fang, Hang-DongWang, Chi-Heng […]

Hard X-ray lasers take their first steps towards nanostructure solution 1. Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser Authors: M. Marvin Seibert, et al. Nature 470, 78-81 (2011) doi:10.1038/nature09748 2. Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography Authors: Henry N. Chapman, et al. Nature 470, 73-77 (2011) doi:10.1038/nature09750 Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. […]

1. Hall viscosity from effective field theory Authors: A.Nicolis & Dam Thanh Son, arXiv:cond-mat/1103.2137 Recommended with a Commentary by David Khmelnitskii, Trinity College, Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_02

1. Undulatory swimming in viscoelastic fluids Authors: Xiaoning Shen and P. E. Arratia Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 208101 Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_03

1. Experimental Spin Ratchet Authors:Marius V. Costache and Sergio O. Valenzuela Science 330, 1645 (2010) Recommended with a commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California at Riverside, USA. |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2011_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2011_01

1. Magnetically Driven Superconductivity in CeCu2Si2 Authors: O. Stockert, J. Arndt, E. Faulhaber, C. Geibel, H. S. Jeevan, S. Kirchner, M. Loewenhaupt, K. Schmalzl, W. Schmidt, Q. Si, and F. Steglich Nature Phys. 7, 119 (2011) Recommended with a commentary by Peter Wölfe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2011_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2011_02