Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2017_03

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2017_01

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2017_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2017_01

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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Filling-Enforced Gaplessness in Band Structures of the 230 Space Groups
Authors: Haruki Watanabe, Hoi Chun Po, Michael P. Zaletel, and Ashvin Vishwanath
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 096404 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_01

1. Geometric frustration and compatibility conditions for two dimensional director fields
Authors: Idan Niv and Efi Efrati
arXiv:1706.08187

2. Geometrical frustration yields fibre formation in self-assembly
Authors: Martin Lenz and Thomas A. Witten
Nature Physics (2017) doi:10.1038/nphys4184

Recommended with a commentary by Gregory M. Grason, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_02
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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 (2017)

2. Formation of Hubbard-like bands as a fingerprint of strong electron-electron interactions in FeSe
Authors: M. D. Watson, S. Backes, A. A. Haghighirad, M. Hoesch, T. K. Kim, A. I. Coldea, and R. Valenti
Phys. Rev. B 95, 081106(R) (2017)

3. Direct observation of dispersive lower Hubbard band in iron-based superconductor FeSe
Authors: D. V. Evtushinsky, M. Aichhorn, Y. Sassa, Z.-H. Liu, J. Maletz, T. Wolf, A. N. Yaresko, S. Biermann, S. V. Borisenko, and B. Büchner
arXiv:1612.02313

Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si, Rice University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2017_03

Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor structure
Authors: Qing Lin He, Lei Pan, Alexander L. Stern, Edward C. Burks, Xiaoyu Che, Gen Yin, Jing Wang, Biao Lian, Quan Zhou, Eun Sang Choi, Koichi Murata, Xufeng Kou, Zhijie Chen, Tianxiao Nie, Qiming Shao, Yabin Fan, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Kai Liu, Jing Xia, and Kang L. Wang
Science 357, 294-299 (2017); arXiv:1606.05712

Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, Caltech.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2017_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2017_01

Revealing the frictional transition in shear thickening suspensions
Authors: Cécile Cavaud, Antoine Bérut, Bloen Metzger, and Yoël Forterre
PNAS 114, 5147 (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2017_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2017_02

1. High pressure floating-zone growth of perovskite nickelate LaNiO₃ single crystals
Authors: Junjie Zhang, Hong Zheng, Yang Ren and J. F. Mitchell
arXiv:1705.00570

2. LaNiO₃ – a highly metallic and antiferromagnetic strongly correlated transition metal oxide
Authors: Z. W. Li, H. Guo, Z. Hu, L. Zhao, C.-Y. Kuo, W. Schmidt, A. Piovano, T. W. Pi, D. I. Khomskii, L. H. Tjeng and A. C. Komarek
arXiv:1705.02589

Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_01

Direct Comparison of Fractional and Integer Quantized Hall Resistance
Authors: Franz J. Ahlers, Martin Götz, and Klaus Pierz
arXiv:1703.05213

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_02

Compaction and segregation of sister chromatids via active loop extrusion
Authors: Anton Goloborodko, Maxim V. Imakaev, John F. Marko, Leonid Mirny
eLife 5, e14864 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2017_03

1. Self-Learning Monte Carlo Method: Continuous-Time Algorithm
Authors: Yuki Nagai, Huitao Shen, Yang Qi, Junwei Liu, and Liang Fu
arXiv:1705.06724

2. Can Boltzmann Machines Discover Cluster Updates?
Authors: Lei Wang
arXiv:1702.08586

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_01