Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
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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
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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
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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
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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

1. Ballistic edge states in bismuth nanowires revealed by SQUID interferometry
Authors: Anil Murani, Alik Kasumov, Shamashis Sengupta, Yu A. Kasumov, V. T. Volkov, I. I. Khodos, F. Brisset, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Alexei Chepelianskii, Richard Deblock, Hélène Bouchiat, and Sophie Guéron
Nature Communications 8, 15941 (2017)

2. Higher-order topology in bismuth
Authors: Frank Schindler, Zhijun Wang, Maia G. Vergniory, Ashley M. Cook, Anil Murani, Shamashis Sengupta, Alik Yu. Kasumov, Richard Deblock, Sangjun Jeon, Ilya Drozdov, Hélène Bouchiat, Sophie Guéron, Ali Yazdani, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Titus Neupert
arXiv:1802.02585

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_01

Emergence of an enslaved phononic bandgap in a non-equilibrium pseudo-crystal
Authors: Nicolas Bachelard, Chad Ropp, Marc Dubois, Rongkuo Zhao, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang
Nat. Mat. 16, 808 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Jeremy England, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_02

High-resolution non-destructive three-dimensional imaging of integrated circuits
Authors: Mirko Holler, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Esther H. R. Tsai, Roberto Dinapoli, Elisabeth Müller, Oliver Bunk, Jörg Raabe, and Gabriel Aeppli
Nature 543, 402 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by J. B. Hastings, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2018_03

Cyclotron Orbits of Composite Fermions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime
Authors: Insun Jo, Hao Deng, Yang Liu, L. N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, K.W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 016802 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by S. M. Girvin, Yale University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_01

Observation of a non-Abelian Yang Monopole: From New Chern Numbers to a Topological Transition
Authors: Seiji Sugawa, Francisco Salces-Carcoba, Abigail R. Perry, Yuchen Yue, and Ian B. Spielman
arXiv:1610.06228

Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_02

1. Combinatorial design of textured mechanical metamaterials
Authors: Corentin Coulais, Eial Teomy, Koen de Reus, Yair Shokef and Martin van Hecke
Nature 535, 529 – 532 (2016)

2. Designing self-powered materials systems that perform pattern recognition
Authors: Yan Fang, Victor V. Yashin, Steven P. Levitan and Anna C. Balazs
Chem. Commun., 53, 7692 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2018_03
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1. Observation of topological superconductivity on the surface of iron-based superconductor
Authors: Peng Zhang, Koichiro Yaji, Takahiro Hashimoto, Yuichi Ota, Takeshi Kondo, Kozo Okazaki, Zhijun Wang, Jinsheng Wen, G. D. Gu, Hong Ding, and Shik Shin
arXiv:1706.05163

2. Observation of pristine Majorana bound state in iron-based superconductor
Authors: Dongfei Wang, Lingyuan Kong, Peng Fan, Hui Chen, Yujie Sun, Shixuan Du, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Liang Fu, Hong Ding, and Hongjun Gao
arXiv:1706.06074

Recommended with a commentary by Fa Wang, Peking University, Beijing.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_01

Determining a local Hamiltonian from a single eigenstate
Authors: Xiao-Liang Qi and Daniel Ranard
arXiv:1712.01850

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2018_02

The smectic order of wrinkles
Authors: H. Aharoni, D. V. Todorova, O. Albarrán, L. Goehring, R. D. Kamien and E. Katifori
Nature Communications 8, 15809 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_01