Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Chromatin remodelers couple inchworm motion with twist-defect formation to slide nucleosomal DNA
Authors: Giovanni B. Brandani, Shoji Takada
PlOS Comput Biol 14, e1006512 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_03
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1. Universality of jamming of nonspherical particles
Authors: C. Brito, H. Ikeda, P. Urbani, M. Wyart, F. Zamponi
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 116, 11736-11741 (2018)

2. Translational and orientational glass transitions in the large-dimensional limit : a generalized replicated liquid theory and an application to patchy colloids
Authors: H. Yoshino
arXiv:1807.04095

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2019_01

Fractional Excitonic Insulator
Authors: Yichen Hu, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, C. L. Kane
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126601 (2018), arXiv:1806.05681

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University
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1. Tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene
Authors: Matthew Yankowitz, Shaowen Chen, Hryhoriy Polshyn, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, David Graf, Andrea F. Young, Cory R. Dean
Science 24 Jan 2019: eaav1910

2. Emergent ferromagnetism near three-quarters filling in twisted bilayer graphene
Authors: Aaron L. Sharpe, Eli J. Fox, Arthur W. Barnard, Joe Finney, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, M. A. Kastner, David Goldhaber-Gordon
arXiv:1901.03520

3. Cascade of superconducting domes and magnetic order around quarter filling in magic angle bilayer graphene
Authors: Dmitri Efetov, ICFO – Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques
KITP Correlations in Moire Flat Bands program, Jan 22 2019

Recommended with a commentary by Michael Zaletel, University of California, Berkeley
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2019_03
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1. Artifact Free Transient Near-Field Nanoscopy
Authors: A. J. Sternbach, J. Hinton, T. Slusar, A. S. McLeod, M. K. Liu, A. Frenzel, M. Wagner, R. Iraheta, F. Keilmann, A. Leitenstorfer, M. Fogler, H.-T. Kim, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov
Optics Express 25, 28589 (2017), arXiv:1706.08478

2. Photonic crystals for nano-light in moir graphene superlattices
Authors: S. S. Sunku, G. X. Ni, B. Y. Jiang, H. Yoo, A. Sternbach, A. S. McLeod, T. Stauber, L. Xiong, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, P. Kim, M. M. Fogler, and D. N. Basov
Science 362, 1153 (2018), arXiv:1901.08378

Recommended with a commentary by Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_01

How geometric frustration shapes twisted fibres, inside and out: competing morphologies of chiral filament assembly
Authors: Douglas M. Hall and Gregory M. Grason
Interface Focus 7: 20160140 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Roya Zandi, University of California, Riverside
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2019_02

CPT-Symmetric Universe
Authors: Latham Boyle, Kieran Finn, and Neil Turok
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 251301 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_01

Solving Statistical Mechanics using Variational Autoregressive Networks
Authors: Dian Wu, Lei Wang, and Pan Zhang
arXiv:1809.10606

Recommended with a commentary by Giuseppe Carleo, Flatiron Institute.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_02

1. Observation of a robust zero-energy bound state in iron-based superconductor Fe(Te,Se)
Authors: J. X. Yin, Zheng Wu, J. H. Wang, Z. Y. Ye, Jing Gong, X. Y. Hou, Lei Shan, Ang Li, X. J. Liang, X. X. Wu, Li Jian, C.S. Ting, Z. Q. Wang, J. P. Hu, P. H. Hor, H. Ding and S. H. Pan
Nature Physics 11, 543 (2015)

2. Quantum anomalous vortex and Majorana zero mode without external magnetic field
Authors: Kun Jiang, Xi Dai and Ziqiang Wang
arXiv:1808.07072

3. Nature of the zero energy bound state at the surface of the topological superconductor Fe(Se,Te)
Authors: T. Machida, Y. Sun, S. Pyon, S. Takeda, Y. Kohsaka, T. Hanaguri, T. Sasagawa and T. Tamegai
arXiv:1812.08995

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2018_03

Models and algorithms for the next generation of glass transition studies
Authors: Andrea Ninarello, Ludovic Berthier, and Daniele Coslovich
Phys. Rev. X 7, 021039 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Giulio Biroli, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_01

1. Monte Carlo Studies of Quantum Critical Metals
Authors: E. Berg, S. Lederer, Y. Schattner, and S. Trebst
Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, arXiv:1804.01988

2. Superconductivity mediated by quantum critical antiferromagnetic fluctuations: The rise and fall of hot spots
Authors: X. Wang, Y. Schattner, E. Berg, and R. M. Fernandes
Physical Review B 95, 174520 (2017)

3. Itinerant Quantum Critical Point with Fermion Pockets and Hot Spots
Authors: Z-H Liu, G. Pan, X-Y Xu, K. Sun, and Z-Y Meng
arXiv:1808.08878

Recommended with a commentary by Andrey V Chubukov, University of Minnesota.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_02

1. Origin of Mott Insulating Behavior and Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Authors: Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, Ashvin Vishwanath, and T. Senthil
arXiv:1803.09742, Phys. Rev. X 8, 031089 (2018)

2. Symmetry, Maximally Localized Wannier States, and a Low-Energy Model for Twisted Bilayer Graphene Narrow Bands
Authors: Jian Kang and Oskar Vafek
arXiv:1805.04918, Phys. Rev. X 8, 031088 (2018)

3. Maximally-localized Wannier orbitals and the extended Hubbard model for the twisted bilayer graphene
Authors: Mikito Koshino, Noah F. Q. Yuan, Takashi Koretsune, Masayuki Ochi, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Liang Fu
arXiv:1805.06819, Phys. Rev. X 8 031087 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, University of Manchester.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2018_03

Bad metallic transport in a cold atom Fermi-Hubbard system
Authors: Peter T. Brown, Debayan Mitra, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Reza Nourafkan, Alexis Reymbaut, Simon Bergeron, A.-M. S. Tremblay, Jure Kokalj, David A. Huse, Peter Schaus, and Waseem S. Bakr
arXiv:1802.09456

Recommended with a commentary by Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_01

Spatial mapping of band bending in semiconductor devices using in situ quantum sensors
Authors: D.A. Broadway, N. Dontschuk, A. Tsai, S. E. Lillie, C. T.-K. Lew, J. C. McCallum, B. C. Johnson, M. W. Doherty, A. Stacey, L. C. L. Hollenberg & J.-P. Tetienne
Nature Electronics 1, 502–507 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Toeno van der Sar, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2018_02

1. Particle-Hole Symmetry in the Fermion-Chern-Simons and Dirac Descriptions of a Half-Filled Landau Level
Authors: Chong Wang, Nigel R. Cooper, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Ady Stern
Phys. Rev. X 7, 031029 (2017)

2. Particle-hole symmetry and electromagnetic response of a half-filled Landau level
Authors: Michael Levin and Dam Thanh Son
Phys. Rev. B 95, 125120 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Michael Mulligan, UC Riverside.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_01

Strong coupling in conserved surface roughening: A new universality class?
Authors: F. Caballero, C. Nardini, F. van Wijland, and M. E. Cates
arXiv:1803.09525, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 020601 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_02

1. Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K in Lanthanum superhydride at megabar pressures
Authors: Maddury Somayazulu, Muhtar Ahart, Ajay K Mishra, Zachary M. Geballe, Maria Baldini, Yue Meng, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Russell J. Hemley
arXiv:1808.07695

2. Superconductivity at 215 K in Lanthanum hydride at high pressures
Authors: A. P. Drozdov, V. S. Minkov, S. P. Besedin, P. P. Kong, M. A. Kuzovnikov, D. A. Knyazev, and M. I. Eremets
arXiv:1808.07039

3. Potential high-Tc superconducting Lanthanum and Yttrium hydrides at high pressure
Authors: Hanyu Liu, Ivan I. Naumov, Roald Hoffmann, N. W. Ashcroft, and Russell J. Hemley
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2017 Jul 3; 114(27): 69906995

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, New York University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2018_03

Localization in fractonic random circuits
Authors: Shriya Pai, Michael Pretko, and Rahul M. Nandkishore
arXiv:1807.09776

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_01

Langevin Dynamics with Space-Time Periodic Nonequilibrium Forcing
Authors: R. Joubaud, G. A. Pavliotis, and G. Stoltz
Journal of Statistical Physics, v. 158, n. 1, pp. 1-36, 2015

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_02

Pomeranchuk instability of composite Fermi liquid
Authors: K. Lee, J. Shao, E-A Kim, F.D.M. Haldane, and E. H. Rezai
arXiv:1802.08261

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2018_03