Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Robust fractional quantum Hall states and continuous quantum phase transitions in a half-filled bilayer graphene Landau level
Authors: Alexander A. Zibrov, Carlos. R. Kometter, Haoxin Zhou, Eric M. Spanton,
Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young
arXiv:1611.07113

2. Even denominator fractional quantum Hall state in bilayer graphene
Authors: J. I. A. Li, C. Tan, S. Chen, Y. Zeng, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, and C.R.
Dean
arXiv:1705.07846

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_02
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Squirmers in nematic liquid crystals: Guiding microswimmers by an
anisotropic medium
Authors: Juho S. Lintuvuori, Alois Würger, and Kevin Stratford
arXiv:1705.02147

Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2017_03
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1. Kinetics of biopolymerization on nucleic acid templates
Authors: C. T. MacDonald, J. H. Gibbs and A. C. Pipkin
Biopolymers, 6(1), pp.1-25 (1968)

2. Bethe solution for the dynamical-scaling exponent of the noisy Burgers equation
Authors: Leh-Hun Gwa and Herbert Spohn
Phys. Rev. A 46, 844 (1992)

3. Exactly Solvable Models for Many-Body Systems Far from Equilibrium
Authors: G.M. Schütz and K.J. Wiese
Vol.19, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, edited by Domb and Green (2001)

Recommended with a commentary by Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2017_01
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1. Barnett effect in paramagnetic states
Authors: Masao Ono, Hiroyuki Chudo, Kazuya Harii, Satoru Okayasu, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Ryo Takahashi, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Eiji Saitoh
Phys. Rev. B 92, 174424 (2015)

2. Observation of Barnett fields in solids by nuclear magnetic resonance
Authors: Hiroyuki Chudo, Masao Ono, Kazuya Harii, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Rie Haruki, Satoru Okayasu, Sadamichi Maekawa, Hiroshi Yasuoka1 and Eiji Saitoh
Applied Physics Express 7, 063004 (2014)

3. Rotational Doppler Effect and Barnett Field in Spinning NMR
Authors: Hiroyuki Chudo, Kazuya Harii, Mamoru Matsuo, Jun’ichi Ieda, Masao Ono, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Eiji Saitoh
J. Phys. Soc. Japan 84, 043601 (2015)

4. Spin hydrodynamic generation
Authors: R. Takahashi, M. Matsuo, M. Ono, K. Harii, H. Chudo, S. Okayasu, J. Ieda, S. Takahashi, S. Maekawa, and E. Saitoh
Nature Physics 12, 52 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by S. M. Girvin, Yale University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2017_02
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Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system
Authors: Soonwon Choi, Joonhee Choi, Renate Landig, Georg Kucsko, Hengyun Zhou, Junichi Isoya, Fedor Jelezko, Shinobu Onoda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Vedika Khemani, Curt von Keyserlingk, Norman Y. Yao, Eugene Demler, and Mikhail D. Lukin
Nature 543, 221225 (2017), arXiv:1610.08057

Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Theory of enhanced interlayer tunneling in optically driven high-Tc superconductors.
Authors: J. Okamoto, A. Cavalleri, and L. Mathey.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227001 (2016), arXiv:1606.09276

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_01
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Active Brownian particles and run-and-tumble particles separate inside a maze.
Authors: M. Khatami, K. Wolff, O. Pohl, M.R. Ejtehadi, and H. Stark.
Scientific Reports 6, Article No: 37670 (2016) [doi:10.1038/srep37670], arXiv:1611.00191

Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Oxford University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_02
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Observation of Half-Quantum Vortices in Topological Superfluid 3-He.
Authors: S. Autti, V. V. Dmitriev, J. T. Maskinen, A. A. Soldatov, G. E. Volovik, A. N. Yudin, V. V. Zavjalov and V. B. Eltsov.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 255301 (2016), arXiv:1508.02197

Recommended with a commentary by Tony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2017_03
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1. Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models.
Authors: Benjamin B. Machta, Ricky Chachra, Mark K. Transtrum, and James P. Sethna.
Science 342, 604-607 (2013)

2. PCA meets RG.
Authors: Serena Bradde and William Bialek.
arXiv:1610.09733

Recommended with a commentary by Ilya Nemenman, Emory University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_01
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1. Experimental realization of a long-range antiferromagnet in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms.
Authors: A. Mazurenko, C. S. Chiu, G. Ji, M. F. Parsons, M. Kanasz-Nagy, R. Schmidt, F. Grusdt, E. Demler, D. Greif, and M. Greiner.
arXiv:1612.08436

Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_02
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1. Pomeranchuk instability and response beyond the quasiparticle regime.
Authors: Egor I. Kiselev, Mathias S. Scheurer, Peter Wölfle, and Jörg Schmalian.
arXiv:1611.01442

2.Conservation and persistence of spin currents and their relation to the Lieb-Schulz-Mattis twist operators.
Authors: N. Bray-Ali and Z. Nussinov.
Phys. Rev. B 80, 012401 (2009)

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2017_03
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1. Consistency of Photoemission and Quantum Oscillations for Surface States of SmB₆.
Authors: J. D. Denlinger, Sooyoung Jang, G. Li, L. Chen, B. J. Lawson, T. Asaba, C. Tinsman, F. Yu, Kai Sun, J. W. Allen, C. Kurdak, Dae-Jong Kim, Z. Fisk, Lu Li.
arXiv:1601.07408

2. Low-temperature conducting state in two candidate topological Kondo insulators: SmB₆ and Ce₃Bi₄Pt₃
Authors: N. Wakeham, P. FS. Rosa, Y. Q. Wang, M. Kang, Z. Fisk. F. Ronning and J. D. Thompson.
Phys. Rev. B 94, 0351275 (2016)

3. Anomalous 3D bulk AC conduction within the Kondo gap of SmB₆ single crystals.
Authors: N. J. Laurita, C. M. Morris, S. M. Koohpayeh, P. F. S. Rosa, W. A. Phelan, Z. Fisk, T. M. McQueen, N. P. Armitage.
arXiv:1608.03901, Phys. Rev. B 94, 165154 (2016)

4. Suppression of magnetic excitations near the surface of the topological Kondo insulator SmB₆.
Authors: P. K. Biswas, M. Legner, G. Balakrishnan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, D. McK. Paul, E. Pomjakushina, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, T. Neupert and Z. Salman.
arXiv:1701.00955, Phys. Rev. B 95, 020410(R) (2017)

Recommended with a commentary by Piers Coleman, Rutgers.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_01
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1. High-Pressure Hydrogen Sulfide from First Principles: A Strongly Anharmonic Phonon-Mediated Superconductor.
Authors: Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Chris J. Pickard, Joseph Nelson, Richard J. Needs, Yinwei Li, Hanyu Liu, Yunwei Zhang, Yanming Ma and Francesco Mauri.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 157004 (2015)

2. Perspective: Role of Structure Prediction in Materials Discovery and Design.
Authors: Richard J. Needs and Chris J. Pickard.
APL Materials 4, 053210 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Zachary Fisk (U. C. Irvine), Warren E. Pickett (U. C. Davis) and Joe. D. Thompson (Los Alamos).
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_02
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1. Topological Acoustics.
Authors: Zhaoju Yang, Fei Gao, Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin, Zhen Gao, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 114301 (2015)

2. Topological sound in active-liquid metamaterials.
Authors: Anton Souslov, Benjamin C. van Zuiden, Denis Bartolo, and Vincenzo Vitelli.
ArXiv: 1610.06873

Recommended with a commentary by M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_03
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1. No-Enclave Percolation Corresponds to Holes in the Cluster Backbone.
Authors: Hao Hu, Robert M. Ziff, and Youjin Deng.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 185701, 2016 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick and Greg Huber, ITP, Santa Barbara.

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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01
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1. Perspective on the phase diagram of cuprate high-temperature superconductors.
Authors: D. Rybicki, M. Jurkutat, S. Reichardt, C. Kapusta, and J. Haase.
arXiv:1511.02408; Nature Communications 7, Article number: 11413 (2016)

2. Bulk superconductivity at 84 K in the strongly overdoped regime of cuprates.
Authors: A. Gauzzi, Y. Klein, M. Nisula, M. Karppinen, P. K. Biswas, H. Saadaoui, E. Morenzoni, P. Manuel, D. Khalyavin, M. Marezio, and T. H. Geballe.
arXiv:1612.04707; Physical Review B 94, 180509(R) (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Joerg Schmalian, Joerg Schmalian, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_02
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1. Signatures of Dirac cones in a DMRG study of the Kagome Heisenberg model.
Authors: Yin- Chen He, Michael P. Zaletel, Masaki Oshikawa, and Frank Pollmann.
arXiv:1611.06238

2. Competing Spin Liquid Phases in the S=1/2 Heisenberg Model on the Kagome Lattice.
Authors: Shenghan Jiang, Panjin Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Ying Ran.
arXiv:1610.02024

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_03
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1. Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet.
Author: S. Sachdev and J. Ye.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 70, 3339 (1993)

2. A bound on chaos.
Authors: J. Maldacena, S. H. Shenker, and D. Stanford.
JHEP 8 (2016) 106, hep-th/1503.01409

Recommended with a commentary by Michael Mulligan, UC Riverside .
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03
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1. Growth against entropy in bacterial metabolism: the phenotypic trade-off behind empirical growth rate distributions in E. coli.
Author: Daniele De Martino, Fabrizio Capuani, and Andrea De Martino.
Physical Biology 13, 036005 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Kirill Korolev, Boston University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02
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1. Transport evidence for Fermi-arc-mediated chirality transfer in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2.
Author: P. J. W. Moll, N. L. Nair, T. Helm, A. C. Potter, I. Kimchi, A. Vishwanath, J. G. Analytis.
Nature 535, 266 (2016)

2. Current at a Distance and Resonant Transparency in Weyl Semimetals.
Authors: Y. Baum, E. Berg, S. A. Parameswaran, and A. Stern.
Phys. Rev. X 5, 041046 (2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Luis Balicas, NHFML.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_01
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