Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
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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

1. Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit
Authors: B. Huang, G. Clark, E. Navarro-Moratalla, D. R. Klein, R. Cheng, K. L. Seyler, D. Zhong, E. Schmidgall, M. A. McGuire, D. H. Cobden, W. Yao, Di Xiao, P. Jarillo-Herrero, and X. Xu
Nature 546, 270 (2017)

2. Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures
Authors: T. Song, X. Cai, M. W.-Y. Tu, X. Zhang, B. Huang, N. P. Wilson, K. L. Seyler, L. Zhu, Takashi Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. A. McGuire, D. H. Cobden, D. Xiao, W. Yao, and X. Xu
Science 360, 1214 (2018)

3. Electric-field switching of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets
Authors: S. Jiang, J. Shan and K. F. Mak
Nat. Mater. 17, 406410 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Luis Balicas, National High Magnetic Field Lab and Florida State University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_01

Tunable excitons in bilayer graphene
Authors: Long Ju, Lei Wang, Ting Cao, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Steven G. Louie, Farhan Rana, Jiwoong Park, James Hone, Feng Wang, and Paul L. McEuen
Science 358, 1314 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_02

Theory of liquid crystal elastomers and polymer networks: connection between neoclassical theory and differential geometry
Authors: Thanh-Son Nguyen and Jonathan V. Selinger
Eur. Phys. J. E (2017) 40: 76

Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2018_03

Majorana quantization and half-integer thermal quantum Hall effect in a Kitaev spin liquid
Authors: Y. Kasahara, T. Ohnishi, Y. Mizukami, O. Tanaka, Sixiao Ma, K. Sugii, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, J. Nasu, Y. Motome, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda
arXiv:1805.05022

Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2018_01

1. Many-body quantum chaos: Analytic connection to random matrix theory
Authors: Pavel Kos, Marko Ljubotina, and Tomaž Prosen
Phys. Rev. X 8, 021062 (2018)

2. Exact spectral form factor in a minimal model of many body quantum chaos
Authors: Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen
arXiv:1805.00931

Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2018_02

Imaging resonant dissipation from individual atomic defects in graphene
Authors: Dorri Halbertal, Moshe Ben Shalom, Aviram Uri, Kousik Bagani, Alexander Y. Meltzer, Ido Marcus, Yuri Myasoedov, John Birkbeck, Leonid S. Levitov, Andre K. Geim, Eli Zeldov
Science 358, 1303-1306 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_01

Direct observation of incommensurate magnetism in Hubbard chains
Authors: Guillaume Salomon, Joannis Koepsell, Jayadev Vijayan, Timon A. Hilker, Jacopo Nespolo, Lode Pollet, Immanuel Bloch and Christian Gross
arXiv:1803.08892 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_02

Colloquium: Toward living matter with colloidal particles
Authors: Zorana Zeravcic, Vinothan N. Manoharan, and Michael P. Brenner
Reviews of Modern Physics 89, 031001 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2018_03

Fractal nematic colloids
Authors: S. M. Hashemi, U. Jagodic?, M. R. Mozaffari, M. R. Ejtehadi, I. Mus?evic?, and M. Ravnik
Nature Communications 8: 14026 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Jörn Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_01

1. Unveiling the superconducting mechanism of Ba_0.51K_0.49BiO₃
Authors: C. H. P. Wen, H. C. Xu, Q. Yao, R. Peng, X. H. Niu, Q. Y. Chen, Z. T. Liu, D. W. Shen, Q. Song, X. Lou, Y. F. Fang, X. S. Liu, Y. H. Song, Y. J. Jiao, T. F. Duan, H. H. Wen, P. Dudin, G. Kotliar, Z. P. Yin, and D. L. Feng
arXiv:1802.10507

2. Oxygen holes and hybridization in the bismuthates
Authors: A. Khazraie, K. Foyevtsova, I. Elfimov, and G. A. Sawatzky
Phys. Rev. B 97, 075103 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_02

1. Correlated insulator behaviour at half filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices
Authors: Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Nature 556, 80 (2018), arXiv:1802.00553

2. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices
Authors: Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Nature 556, 43 (2018), arXiv:1803.02342

Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2018_03