Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1. Observed quantization of anyonic heat flow
Authors: M. Banerjee, M. Heiblum, A. Rosenblatt, Y. Oreg, D. E. Feldman, A. Stern, and V. Umansky
Nature 545, 77 (2017)

2. Observation of half-integer thermal Hall conductance
Authors: M. Banerjee, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, D. E. Feldman, Y. Oreg, and A. Stern
arXiv:1710.00492

Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_02
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1. Particle-hole symmetry reveals failed superconductivity in the metallic phase of two-dimensional superconducting films
Authors: N. P. Breznay and A. Kapitulnik
Science Advances 3 no.9, (2017)

2. A Bose metal has no cyclotron resonance
Authors: Y. Wang, I. Tamir, D. Shahar, and N. P. Armitage
arXiv:1708:01908

Recommended with a commentary by Michael Mulligan, University of California, Riverside.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_03
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1. Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe
Authors: P. O. Sprau, A. Kostin, A. Kreisel, A. E. Böhmer, V. Taufour, P. C. Canfield, S. Mukherjee, P. J. Hirschfeld, B. M. Andersen, J. C. Séamus Davis
Science, 357, 75–80 (2017)

2. Tuning across the BCS-BEC crossover in the multiband superconductor Fe_1+ySe_xTe_1-x: An angle-resolved photoemission study
Authors: Shahar Rinott, K. B. Chashka, Amit Ribak, Emile D. L. Rienks, Amina Taleb-Ibrahimi, Patrick Le Fevre, François Bertran, Mohit Randeria and Amit Kanigel
Science Advances, 3: e1602372 (2017)

3. Giant superconducting fluctuations in the compensated semimetal FeSe at the BCS–BEC crossover
Authors: S. Kasahara, T. Yamashita, A. Shi, R. Kobayashi, Y. Shimoyama, T. Watashige, K. Ishida, T. Terashima, T. Wolf, F. Hardy, C. Meingast, H. v. Löhneysen, A. Levchenko, T. Shibauchi and Y. Matsuda
Nature Communications 7, 12843 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2017_01
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Spin-Orbital Entangled Quantum Liquid on Honeycomb Lattice
Authors: K. Kitagawa, T. Takayama, Y. Matsumoto, A. Kato, R. Takano , Y. Kishimoto, S. Bette, R. Dinnebie, G. Jackeli, and H. Takagi
H. Takagi, KITP talk, Aug 2017

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee and T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2017_02
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Self-organized Notch dynamics generate stereotyped sensory organ patterns in Drosophila
Authors: Francis Corson, Lydie Couturier, Hervé Rouault, Khalil Mazouni, and François Schweisguth
Science 356, eaai7407 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by David K. Lubensky, University of Michigan.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2017_03
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Anomalous elasticity, fluctuations and disorder in elastic membranes
Authors: P. Le Doussal, and L. Radzihovsky
arXiv:1708.05723, Annals of Physics (In Press)

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanscience, Madrid, and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2017_01
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Pulse propagation at interfaces and their possible relevance for biology
Authors: Bernhard Fichtl, Shamit Shrivastava, and Matthias F. Schneider
Scientific Reports 6, 22874 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Julian Kappler and Roland R. Netz, Freie Universität Berlin.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2017_02
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1. Two-level systems in evaporated amorphous silicon
Authors: D.R. Queen, X. Liu, J. Karel, H.C. Jacks, T.H. Metcalf, F. Hellman
J. Non-Cryst Sol 426, 19 (2015), arXiv:1506.04284v1

2. Supression of tunneling two-level systems in ultrastable glasses of indomethacin
Authors: Tomás Pérez-Castañeda, Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco, Javier Rodríguez-Viejob, and Miguel A. Ramos
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 11275, (2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2017_03
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1. A mechanism of e²/2h conductance plateau without 1D chiral Majorana fermions
Authors: Wenjie Ji and Xiao-Gang Wen
arXiv:1708.06214

2. Disorder-induced half-integer quantized conductance plateau in quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structures
Authors: Yingyi Huang, F. Setiawan, and Jay D. Sau
arXiv:1708.06752

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_01
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Random Matrices and Complexity of Spin Glasses
Authors: Antonio Auffinger, Gérard Ben Arous, Ji?í ?erný
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 66, 165-201 (2013)

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_02
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Exact critical exponents for the antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal in two dimensions
Authors: Andres Schlief, Peter Lunts, and Sung-Sik Lee
Phys. Rev. X 7, 021010 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Andrey V Chubukov, University of Minnesota.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_03
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