Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_03

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

Memories from the ergodic phase: the awkward dynamics of spherical mixed p-spin models
Authors: G. Folena, S. Franz, and F. Ricci-Tersenghi
arXiv:1903.01421

Recommended with a commentary by Francesco Zamponi, Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2019_03

Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles
Authors: Tais Gorkhover, Anatoli Ulmer, Ken Ferguson, Max Bucher, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Johan Bielecki, Tomas Ekeberg, Max F. Hantke, Benedikt J. Daurer, Carl Nettelblad, Jakob Andreasson, Anton Barty, Petr Bruza, Sebastian Carron, Dirk Hasse, Jacek Krzywinski, Daniel S. D. Larsson, Andrew Morgan, Kerstin Mühlig, Maria Müller, Kenta Okamoto, Alberto Pietrini, Daniela Rupp, Mario Sauppe, Gijs van der Schot, Marvin Seibert, Jonas A. Sellberg, Martin Svenda, Michelle Swiggers, Nicusor Timneanu, Daniel Westphal, Garth Williams, Alessandro Zani, Henry N. Chapman, Gyula Faigel, Thomas Möller, Janos Hajdu, and Christoph Bostedt
Nature Photonics 12, 150 (2018), DOI:10.1038/s41566-018-0110-y

Recommended with a commentary by J. B. Hastings, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2019_01

Giant thermal Hall conductivity from neutral excitations in the pseudogap phase of cuprates
Authors: Gaël Grissonnanche, Anaëlle Legros, Sven Badoux, Etienne Lefrançois, Victor Zatko, Maude Lizaire, Francis Laliberté, Adrien Gourgout, Jianshi Zhou, Sunseng Pyon, Tomohiro Takayama, Hidenori Takagi, Shimpei Ono, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, and Louis Taillefer
arXiv: 1901.03104

Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, U.C. Berkeley
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2019_02

Interacting multi-channel topological boundary modes in a quantum Hall valley system
Authors: Mallika T. Randeria, Kartiek Agarwal, Benjamin E. Feldman, Hao Ding, Huiwen Ji, R. J. Cava, S. L. Sondhi, Siddharth A. Parameswaran, and Ali Yazdani
Nature 566, 363-367 (2019)

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_01

1. Self-Verifying Variational Quantum Simulation of the Lattice Schwinger Model
Authors: Christian Kokail, Christine Maier, Rick van Bijnen, Tiff Brydges, Manoj K. Joshi, Petar Jurcevic, Christine A. Muschik, Pietro Silvi, Rainer Blatt, Christian F. Roos, and Peter Zoller
arXiv:1810.03421

2. Probing quantum critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator
Authors: Alexander Keesling, Ahmed Omran, Harry Levine, Hannes Bernien, Hannes Pichler, Soonwon Choi, Rhine Samajdar, Sylvain Schwartz, Pietro Silvi, Subir Sachdev, Peter Zoller, Manuel Endres, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuleti?, and Mikhail D. Lukin
Nature 568, 207 (2019)

3. A Rapidly Expanding Bose-Einstein Condensate: An Expanding Universe in the Lab
Authors: S. Eckel, A. Kumar, T. Jacobson, I. B. Spielman, and G. K. Campbell
Phys. Rev. X, 8, 021021 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale Quantum Institute
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_02

Non-equilibrium systems have steady-state distributions and non-steady dynamics
Author: Tanniemola B. Liverpool
arXiv:1810.10980

Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen) and University of Oxford
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_03

Quantum coherence across bosonic superconductor-anomalous metal-insulator transitions
Authors: Chao Yang, Yi Liu, Yang Wang, Liu Feng, Qianmei He, Jian Sun, Yue Tang, Chunchun Wu, Jie Xiong, Wanli Zhang, Xi Lin, Hong Yao, Haiwen Liu, Gustavo Fernandes, Jimmy Xu, James M. Valles Jr., Jian Wang, and Yanrong Li
arXiv:1901.07706

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_01

Observation of a chiral spin liquid phase of the Hubbard model on the triangular lattice: a density matrix renormalization group study
Authors: Aaron Szasz, Johannes Motruk, Michael P. Zaletel, Joel E. Moore
arXiv:1808.00463

Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_02