Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Cyclotron orbit knot and tunable-field quantum Hall effect
Authors: Yi Zhang
Phys. Rev. Research 1, 022005(R) (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.022005

2. Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in Cd₃As₂
Authors: Cheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiang Yuan, Shiheng Lu, Jinglei Zhang, Awadhesh Narayan, Yanwen Liu, Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Ran Liu, Eun Sang Choi, Alexey Suslov, Stefano Sanvito, Li Pi, Hai-Zhou Lu, Andrew C. Potter, and Faxian Xiu
Nature, Vol 565, pg 331 (2019); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0798-3

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_03
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Odd elasticity
Authors: Colin Scheibner, Anton Souslov, Debarghya Banerjee, Piotr Surowka, William T. M. Irvine and Vincenzo Vitelli
arXiv:1902.07760

Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_01
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1. Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
Authors: M. Hepting, D. Li, C. J. Jia, H. Lu, E. Paris, Y. Tseng, X. Feng, M. Osada, E. Been, Y. Hikita, Y.-D. Chuang, Z. Hussain, K. J. Zhou, A. Nag, M. Garcia-Fernandez, M. Rossi, H. Y. Huang, D. J. Huang, Z. X. Shen, T. Schmitt, H. Y. Hwang, B. Moritz, J. Zaanen, T. P. Devereaux, and W. S. Lee
arXiv:1909.02678, to be published in Nature Materials

2. Model construction and a possibility of cuprate-like pairing in a new d⁹ nickelate superconductor (Nd,Sr)NiO₂
Authors: H. Sakakibara, H. Usui, K. Suzuki, T. Kotani, H. Aoki, and K. Kuroki
arXiv:1909.00060

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, Waseda University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_02
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Odd-frequency spin-triplet instability in disordered electron liquid
Authors: Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Alexander M. Finkel’stein
arXiv:1912.04258

Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_03
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1. Umbilic Lines in Orientational Order
Authors: Thomas Machon and Gareth P. Alexander
Phys. Rev. X 6, 011033 (2016); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.011033

2. Interpretation of saddle-splay and the Oseen-Frank free energy in liquid crystals
Author: Jonathan V. Selinger
Liquid Cryst. Rev. 6, 129-142 (2019); arXiv:1901.06306

3. Uniform distortions and generalized elasticity of liquid crystals
Author: Epifanio G. Virga
Phys. Rev. E 100, 052701 (2019); arXiv:1908.09872

Recommended with a commentary by Gregory M. Grason, UMass Amherst
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2019_02

Correlated rigidity percolation and colloidal gels
Authors: Shang Zhang, Leyou Zhang, Mehdi Bouzid, D. Zeb Rocklin, Emanuela Del Gado, and Xiaoming Mao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 33 (2019)

Recommended with a commentary by Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_01

Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Authors: Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, … (73 more authors) … Hartmut Neven, and John Martinis
Nature 574, 505–510 (2019)

Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo, Forschungszentrum Jülich
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_02

1. Magnetic-field-induced quantized anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi₂Te₄
Authors: Yujun Deng, Yijun Yu, Meng Zhu Shi, Jing Wang, Xian Hui Chen and Yuanbo Zhang
arXiv:1904.11468

2. Quantum phase transition from axion insulator to Chern insulator in MnBi₂Te₄
Authors: Chang Liu, Yongchao Wang, Hao Li, Yang Wu, Yaoxin Li, Jiaheng Li, Ke He, Yong Xu, Jinsong Zhang, and Yayu Wang
arXiv:1905.00715

3. Quantum anomalous Hall effect driven by magnetic proximity coupling in all-telluride based heterostructure
Authors: Ryota Watanabe, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Minoru Kawamura, Masataka Mogi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Xiuzhen Yu, Kiyomi Nakajima, Kei S Takahashi, Masashi Kawasaki, and Yoshinori Tokura
arXiv:1908.07163

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_03

Gibbs and Boltzmann Entropy in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghi
arXiv:1903.11870

Recommended with a commentary by Deepak Dhar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01

1. Two Diverging Length Scales in the Structure of Jammed Packings
Authors: D. Hexner, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel
Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 115501 (2018)

2. Can a Large Packing be Assembled from Smaller Ones?
Authors: D. Hexner, P. Urbani, and F. Zamponi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 068003 (2019)

Recommended with a commentary by Haim Diamant, Tel Aviv University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_02

1. The Hierarchy of Excitation Lifetimes in Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Authors: Patrick J. Ledwith, Haoyu Guo, and Leonid Levitov
arXiv:1905.03751

2. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D Electron Systems
Authors: Lev Haldar Kendrick, Patrick J. Ledwith, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov
arXiv:1810.07588

3. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D Electron Systems
Authors: Lev Haldar Kendrick, Patrick J. Ledwith, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov
arXiv:1805.06819; Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 176805 (2018)

4. Fluidity Onset in Graphene
Authors: Denis A. Bandurin, Andrey V. Shytov, Leonid Levitov, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Alexey I. Berdyugin, Moshe Ben Shalom, Irina V. Grigorieva, Andre K. Geim, and Gregory Falkovich
arXiv:1806.03231; Nature Communications 9 4533 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanoscience, Madrid and Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_03

Computing spectra without solving eigenvalue problems
Authors: Douglas N. Arnold, Guy David, Marcel Filoche, David Jerison, and Svitlana Mayboroda
SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 41, B69 (2019); DOI: 10.1137/17M1156721
arXiv:1711.04888

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01

1. Observation of a symmetry-protected topological phase of interacting bosons with Rydberg atoms
Authors: Sylvain de Léséleuc, Vincent Lienhard, Pascal Scholl, Daniel Barredo, Sebastian Weber, Nicolai Lang, Hans Peter Büchler, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys
Science 365, 775–780 (2019); DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9105
arXiv:1810.13286

2. Synthetic three-dimensional atomic structures assembled atom by atom
Authors: Daniel Barredo, Vincent Lienhard, Sylvain de Léséleuc, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys
Nature 561 79-82 (2018); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0450-2
arXiv:1712.02727

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_02

1. Design principles for nonequilibrium self assembly
Authors: Michael Nguyen and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 113, 14231-14236(2016); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1609983113

2. Dissipation induced transitions in elastic strings
Authors: Michael Nguyen and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
arXiv:1803.04368

Recommended with a commentary by Michael F. Hagan, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_03
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1. Melting of the Vortex Lattice through Intermediate Hexatic Fluid in an a-MoGe Thin Film
Authors: I. Roy, S. Dutta, A. N. R. Choudhury, S. Basistha, I. Maccari, S. Mandal, J. Jesudasan, V. Bagwe, C. Castellani, L. Benfatto, and P. Raychaudhuri
Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 047001 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047001

2. Evidence of Quantum Vortex Fluid in the Mixed State of a Very Weakly Pinned a-MoGe Thin Film
Authors: S. Dutta, I. Roy, S. Mandal, S. Basistha, J. Jesudasan, V. Bagwe, and P. Raychaudhuri
arXiv:1905.01045

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_01

1. Delayed instabilities in viscoelastic solids through a metric description
Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati
arXiv:1711.09491

2. The metric description of viscoelasticity and instabilities in viscoelastic solids
Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati
arXiv:1806.01237

Recommended with a commentary by Sam Dillavou and Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02

Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on SrTiO₃
Authors: Louis Veyrat, Corentin Déprez, Alexis Coissard, Xiaoxi Li, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Han, Benjamin A. Piot, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé
arXiv:1907.02299

Recommended with a commentary by Leonid I. Glazman, Yale University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03

1. Automated tuning of inter-dot tunnel couplings in quantum dot arrays
Authors: C. J. van Diepen, P. T. Eendebak, B. T. Buijtendorp, U. Mukhopadhyay, T. Fujita, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 033101 (2018), DOI:10.1063/1.5031034
(code: https://github.com/QuTech-Delft/qtt)

2. Efficiently measuring a quantum device using machine learning
Authors: D.T. Lennon, H. Moon, L.C. Camenzind, Liuqi Yu, D.M. Zumbühl, G.A.D. Briggs, M.A. Osborne, E.A. Laird, and N. Ares
arXiv:1810.10042
(code: https://github.com/returnddd/CVAE_for_QE/)

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
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DOI:10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_01

1. Signature of Dispersing 1D Majorana Channels in an Iron-based Superconductor
Authors: Zhenyu Wang, Jorge Olivares Rodriguez, Martin Graham, G. D. Gu, Taylor Hughes, Dirk K. Morr, and Vidya Madhavan
arXiv:1903.00515

2. Evidence for Helical Hinge Zero Modes in an Fe-Based Superconductor
Authors: Mason J. Gray, Josef Freudenstein, Shu Yang F. Zhao, Ryan O’Connor, Samuel Jenkins, Narendra Kumar, Marcel Hoek, Abigail Kopec, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ruidan Zhong, G. D. Gu, and K. S. Burch
arXiv:1902.10723

Recommended with a commentary by Fa Wang, Peking University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_02