A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
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.
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.
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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1. Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision.
Author: B. Radha, A. Esfandiar, F. C. Wang, A. P. Rooney, K. Gopinad- han, A. Keerthi, A. Mishchenko, A. Janardanan, P. Blake, L. Fumagalli, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. Garaj, S. J. Haigh, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim.
Nature, doi:10.1038/nature19363 (2016)
2. Sieving hydrogen isotopes through two dimensional crystals.
Authors: Lozada-Hidalgo, S. Hu, O. Marshall, A. Mishchenko, A. N. Grigorenko, R. A. W. Dryfe, B. Radha, I. V. Grigorieva, A. K. Geim.
Science 351, 68 (2016)
Recommended with a commentary by Fransisco Guinea , DQMP, Imdea Nanscience, Madrid.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_02
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Stochastic thermodynamics of active matter.
Author: T.Speck.
EPL 114 30006 (2016)
Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_01
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Quantum Entanglement Growth Under Random Unitary Dynamics.
Authors: Adam Nahum, Jonathan Ruhman, Sagar Vijay and Jeongwan Haah.
arXiv: 1608.06950
Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, Colorado University, Boulder.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_03
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1. The development of cryo-EM into a mainstream structural biology technique.
Author: Nogales, E.
Nat. Meth. 13, 2427 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3694
2. Single-particle cryo-EM at crystallographic resolution Cheng.
Authors: Cheng, Y.
Cell 161, 450457 (2015)
3. Cluster imaging with a direct detection CMOS pixel sensor in transmission electron microscopy.
Authors: Battaglia, M., Contarato, D., Denes, P. & Giubilatos.
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 608, 363365 (2009)
4. Comparison of optimal performance at 300 keV of three direct electron detectors for use in low dose electron microscopy.
Authors: McMullan, G., Faruqi, A. R., Clare, D. & Henderson, R..
Ultramicroscopy 147, 156163 (2014)
Recommended with a commentary by Simon Billinge, DQMP, Columbia University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_01
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Nanoscale thermal imaging of dissipation in quantum systems.
Authors: D. Halbertal, J. Cuppens, M. Ben Shalom, L. Embon, N. Shadmi, Y. Anahory, H. R. Naren, J. Sarkar, A. Uri, Y. Ronen, Y. Myasoedov, L. S. Levitov, E. Joselevich, A. K. Geim, and E. Zeldov.
arXiv: 1609.01487
Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_02
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Continuous Rotation of Achiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets Driven by Heat Flux.
Authors: Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Guilhem Poy, and Patrick Oswald.
Physical Review Letters 117, 057801 (2016)
Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, Kent State University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_03
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