Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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).
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_02

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2017_03

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.

|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_01

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.

|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_02

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2016_03

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 .
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_03

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_02

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2016_01

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_02

Stochastic thermodynamics of active matter.
Author: T.Speck.
EPL 114 30006 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_01

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2016_03

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_01

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_02

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.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2016_03

Dependence of the critical temperature in overdoped copper oxides on superfluid density.
Authors: I. Bozovic, X. He, J. Wu, and A. T. Bollinger.
Nature 536, 309 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_01

Information capacity of specific interactions.
Authors: M. H. Huntley, A. Murugan, and M. P. Brenner.
PNAS 113, 58415846 (2016)

Recommended with a commentary by Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_02

Competing valley, spin, and orbital symmetry breaking in bilayer graphene.
Authors: B.M. Hunt, J.I.A. Li, A.A. Zibrov, L. Wang, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, C.R. Dean, M. Zaletel, R.C. Ashoori, and A.F. Young.
arXiv:1607.0646v1

Recommended with a commentary by S. A. Parameswaran, University of California, Irvine.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2016_03

1. Site-resolved observations of antiferromagnetic correlations in the Hubbard model.
Authors: M. F. Parsons, A. Mazurenko, C.S. Chiu, G. Ji, D. Greif, and M. Greiner.
arXiv:1605.02704

2. Spin and Charge Resolved Quantum Gas Microscopy of Antiferromagnetic Order in Hubbard Chains.
Authors:Martin Boll, Timon A. Hilker, Guillaume Salomon, Ahmed Omran, Immanuel Bloch, and Christian Gross.
arXiv:1605.05661

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, DQMP, University of Geneva.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2016_01

1. Magnetic ground state of FeSe.
Authors: Qisi Wang, Yao Shen, Bingying Pan, Xiaowen Zhang, K. Ikeuchi, K. Iida, A. D. Christianson, H. C. Walker, D. T. Adroja, M. Abdel-Hafiez, Xiaojia Chen, D. A. Chareev, A. N. Vasiliev, Jun Zhao.
Nature Communications 7, 12182 (2016)

2. Unlocked Stripe-order Antiferromagnetism in FeSe under Pressure.
Authors:P. Wang, S. Sun, Y. Cui, W. Song, T. Li, Rong Yu, Hechang Lei, Weiqiang Yu.
arXiv:1603.04589

3. Strong cooperative coupling of pressure-induced mag- netic order and nematicity in FeSe.
Authors:K. Kothapalli, A. E. Böhmer, W. T. Jayasekara, B. G. Ueland, P. Das, A. Sapkota, V. Taufour, Y. Xiao, E. E. Alp, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman.
arXiv:1603.04135

Recommended with a commentary by Qimiao Si, Rice University.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2016_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2016_02

Floquet Time Crystals.
Authors: Dominic V. Else, Bela Bauer, and Chetan Nayak.
arXiv:1603.08001

Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, UCSB.
|View Commentary|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2016_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2016_01