Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Light-induced ferromagnetism in moiré superlattices Authors: Xi Wang, Chengxin Xiao, Heonjoon Park, Jiayi Zhu, Chong Wang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Di Xiao, Daniel R. Gamelin, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu Nature 604, 468 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04472-z Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may […]

Character of the “normal state” of the nickelate superconductors Authors: Kyuho Lee, Bai Yang Wang, Motoki Osada, Berit H. Goodge, Tiffany C. Wang, Yonghun Lee, Shannon Harvey, Woo Jin Kim, Yijun Yu, Chaitanya Murthy, Srinivas Raghu, Lena F. Kourkoutis, and Harold Y. Hwang arXiv:2203.02580; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.02580 Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, National Tsunghua […]

Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization Authors: Nitish Mehta, Roman Kuzmin, Cristiano Ciuti, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan arXiv:2203.17186; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.17186 Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_02

Physical modeling of the heritability and maintenance of epigenetic modifications Authors: Sarah H. Sandholtz, Quinn MacPherson , and Andrew J. Spakowitz PNAS 117, 20423 (2020); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920499117 Recommended with a commentary by Jens-Uwe Sommer, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden and TU Dresden |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_03

Quantum anomalous Hall effect with a permanent magnet defines a quantum resistance standard Authors: Yuma Okazaki, Takehiko Oe, Minoru Kawamura, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Shuji Nakamura, Shintaro Takada, Masataka Mogi, Kei S. Takahashi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, and Nobu-Hisa Kaneko Nature Physics 18, 25-29 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01424-8 Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts […]

Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Paking in d = 2 and d = 3 Authors: Alessio Zaccone Physical Review Letters 128, 028002 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.028002 Recommended with a commentary by Christos Likos, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02

Discovery of charge-4e and charge-6e superconductivity in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 Authors: Jun Ge, Pinyuan Wang, Ying Xing, Qiangwei Yin, Hechang Lei, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang arXiv:2201.10352; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2201.10352 Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Berkeley – Visitor |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_03

Non-orientable order and non-Abelian response in frustrated metamaterials Authors: Xiaofei Guo, Marcelo Guzman, David Carpentier, Denis Bartolo, and Corentin Coulais arXiv:2111.13933 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Souslov, University of Bath |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_01

1. Dissipation-assisted operator evolution method for capturing hydrodynamic transport Authors: Tibor Rakovszky, C. W. von Keyserlingk, and Frank Pollmann Phys. Rev. B 105, 075131 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.075131 2. Operator backflow and the classical simulation of quantum transport Authors: C. W. von Keyserlingk, Frank Pollmann, and Tibor Rakovszky arXiv:2111.09904 Recommended with a commentary by E. Miles […]

Large N Theory of Critical Fermi Surfaces Authors: I. Esterlis, H. Guo, A. A. Patel, and S. Sachdev Phys. Rev. B 103, 235129 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235129 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03

Quantum phase transition in a clean superconductor with repulsive dynamical interaction Authors: Dimitri Pimenov and Andrey V. Chubukov arXiv:2112.06273 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01

1. Metal pad instabilities in liquid metal batteries Authors: Oleg Zikanov Phys. Rev. E 92, 063021 (2015); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063021 2. Fluid Mechanics of Liquid Metal Batteries Authors: Douglas H. Kelley and Tom Weier Appl. Mech. Rev. 70(2): 020801 (2018); DOI: 10.1115/1.4038699 Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner, Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

Crazing Reveals an Entanglement Network in Glassy Ring Polymers Authors: Jiuling Wang and Ting Ge Macromolecules, 54, 16, 7500–7511, (2021); DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01080 Recommended with a commentary by Jan Smrek, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03

Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion Authors: David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Kritsana Srakaew, Simon Hollerith, Jun Rui, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Norman Y. Yao, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher arXiv:2107.00038 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

1. Quantum-critical continuum in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Alexandre Jaoui, Ipsita Das, Giorgio Di Battista, Jaime Díez-Mérida, Xiaobo Lu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov arXiv:2108.07753 2. Incoherent transport across the strange metal regime of highly overdoped cuprates Authors: J. Ayres, M. Berben, M. Čulo, Y.-T. Hsu, E. […]

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. Oscillations of the thermal conductivity in the spin-liquid state of α-RuCl3 Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, and N. P. Ong Nature Physics 17, 915–919 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01243-x 2. The planar thermal Hall conductivity in α-RuCl3 Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, […]

1. Active topological glass Authors: Jan Smrek, Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, and Kurt Kremer Nature Communications, 11: 26, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13696-z 2. Emergence of active topological glass through directed chain dynamics and nonequilibrium phase separation Authors: Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, Kurt Kremer, and Jan Smrek Physical Review Research, 2: 043249, 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043249 […]

1. Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor Authors: Google Quantum AI and collaborators arXiv:2107.13571 2. Observation of a many-body-localized discrete time crystal with a programmable spin-based quantum simulator Authors: J. Randall, C. E. Bradley, F. V. van der Gronden, A. Galicia, M. H. Abobeih, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, F. Machado, N. […]

Quantized Nonlinear Conductance in Ballistic Metals Authors: C. L. Kane arXiv:2108.05870 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_02