Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Observation of chiral edge states with neutral fermions in synthetic Hall ribbons.
Authors:M. Mancini, G. Pagano, G. Cappellini, L. Livi, M. Rider, J. Catani, C. Sias, P. Zoller, M. Inguscio,
M. Dalmonte and L. Fallani.
arXiv:1502.02495(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, DQMP, University of Geneva.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2015_02
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Anisotropic membrane curvature sensing by antibacterial peptides.
Authors:Jordi Gómez-Llobregat, Federico Elías-Wolff, Martin Lindén
arXiv:1412.2371(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Peter Olmsted, Georgetown University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2015_03
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1.Propagating phonons coupled to an artificial atom.
Authors:Martin V. Gustafsson, Thomas Aref, Anton Frisk Kockum, Maria K. Ekström, Göran Johansson, and Per Delsing.
Science 346,207(2014)

2.Surface acoustic wave devices on bulk ZnO crystals at low temperature.
Authors:E. B. Magnusson, B. H. Williams, R. Manenti, M.-S. Nam, A. Nersisyan, M. J. Peterer, A. Ardavan, and P. J. Leek.
Applied Physics Letters 106,063509(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo, RWTH Aachen, FZ Juelich.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2015_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2015_01

Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Nonequilibrium Diffusive Dynamics.
Authors:A. Aminov, Y. Kafri, and M. Kardar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 230602(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Oxford University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2015_02
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1.Precise quantization of anomalous Hall effect near zero magnetic field.
Authors: A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, Xufeng Fu, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 114,187201(2015)

2.High-precision realization of robust quantum anomalous Hall state in a hard ferromagnetic topological insulator.
Authors:Cui-Zu Chang, Weiwei Zhao, Duk Y.Kim, Haijun Zhang, Badih A. Assaf, Don Heiman, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Chaoxing Liu, Moses H. W. Chan, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera.
Nature Materials 14,473(2015)

3.Zero-field dissipationless chiral edge transport and the nature of dissipation in the quantum anomalous Hall state.
Authors:Cui-Zu Chang, Weiwei Zhao, Duk Y. Kim, Peng Wei, J.K. Jain, Chaoxing Liu, Moses H.W. Chan, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera.
arXiv:1505.01896

Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I.Halperin, Harvard University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2015_03
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1.Coexistence of half-metallic itinerant ferromagnetism with local-moment antiferromagnetism in Ba0.60K0.40Mn2As2.
Authors: A. Pandey, B. G. Ueland, S. Yeninas, A. Kreyssig, A. Sapkota, Yang Zhao, J. S. Helton, J.W. Lynn, R. J. McQueeney, Y. Furukawa, A. I. Goldman, and D. C. Johnston.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 047001(2013)

2.Itinerant ferromagnetism in the As 4p conduction band of Ba0.6K0.4Mn2As2 identified by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism.
Authors:B. G. Ueland, A. Pandey, Y. Lee, A. Sapkota, Y. Choi, D. Haskel, R. A. Rosenberg, J. C. Lang, B. N. Harmon, D. C. Johnston, A. Kreyssig, and A. I. Goldman.
Phys, Rev. Lett. 114, 217001(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_01

1.A bound on chaos.
Authors: J. Maldacena, S. Shenker, and S. Stanford.
arXiv:1503.01409

2.A simple model of quantum holography.
Authors:A. Kitaev.
KITP(part 1)
KITP(part 2)

Recommended with a commentary by Joel E. Moore, UC Berkeley and LBNL.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_02
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1.Selective buckling via states of self-stress in topological metamaterials.
Authors: J. Paulose, A. Meunnissen, V. Vitelli.
arXiv:1502.03396

2.Topological Acoustics.
Authors:Zhaoju Yang, Fei Gao, Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin, Zhen Gao, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 114301 (2015)

3.Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials
Authors:L.M. Nash, D. Kleckner, A. Read, V. Vitelli, A.M. Turner, W.T.M. Irvine.
arXiv:1504.03362

Recommended with a commentary by Chris Santangelo, UMass Amherst.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_03
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Algorithmic lattice kirigami: a route to pluripotent materials.
Authors: Daniel M. Sussman, Yigil Cho, Toen Castle, Xingting Gong, Euiyeon Jung, Shu Yang, and Randall D. Kamien.
arXiv:1503.07930

Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick, Soft Matter Program, Syracuse University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_01

An Aharonov-Bohm interferometer for determining Bloch band topology.
Authors: L. Duca, T. Li, M. Reitter, I. Bloch, M. Schleier-Smith, U. Schneider.
Science 347, 288 (2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, OSU.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_02
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1. Signature of the chiral anomaly in a Dirac semimetal: a current plume steered by a magnetic field.
Authors: Jun Xiong, Satya K. Kushwaha, Tian Liang, Jason W. Krizan, Wudi Wang, R. J. Cava, N. P. Ong.
arXiv:1503.08179

2. Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals
Authors: D. T. Son and B. Z. Spivak.
Phys. Rev. B 88, 104412

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_03

The Simplest Model of Jamming.
Authors: Silvio Franz and Giorgio Parisi.
arXiv:1501.03397

Recommended with a commentary by Robijn Bruinsma, UCLA.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_01

Electric Dipole Moments of Nanosolvated Acid Molecules in Water Clusters.
Authors: Nicholas Guggemos, Petr Slavicek, and Vitaly V. Kresin.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043401(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_02
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Observation of many-body localization of interacting fermions in a quasi-random optical lattice.
Authors: Michael Schreiber, Sean S. Hodgman, Pranjal Bordia, Henrik P. Lu ?schen, Mark H. Fischer, Ronen Vosk, Ehud Altman, Ulrich Schneider, and Immanuel Bloch.
arXiv:1501.05661

Recommended with a commentary by L. I. Glazman, Yale University.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_03

Imprint of topological degeneracy in quasi-one-dimensional fractional quantum Hall states.
Authors: Eran Sagi, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, and Bertrand Halperin.
arXiv:1502.01665

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Delft University of Technology.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_01

Thermal Hall conductivity in the frustrated pyrochlore magnet Tb2Ti2O7.
Authors: Max Hirschberger, Jason W. Krizan, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong.
arXiv:1502.02006(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_02

Collective Dynamics of Dividing Chemotactic Cells.
Authors: Anatolij Gelimson and Ramin Golestanian.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 114,028101(2015)

Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_03
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Pressure and Phase Equilibria in Interacting Active Brownian Spheres.
Authors: A. P. Solon, J. Stenhammar, R. Wittkowski, M. Kardar, Y. Kafri, M. E. Cates, J. Tailleur.
arXiv:1412.5475

Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_01
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1.Experimental observation of Weyl points.
Authors: Ling Lu, Zhiyu Wang, Dexin Ye, Lixin Ran, Liang Fu, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljacic.
arXiv:1502.03438

2.Experimental realization of a topological Weyl semimetal phase with Fermi arc surface states in TaAs.
Authors: S.Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, N. Alidoust, M. Neupane, C. Zhang, R. Sankar, S.M. Huang, C.C. Lee, G. Chang, B.K. Wang, G. Bian, H. Zheng, D. S. Sanchez, F. Chou, H. Lin, S. Jia, M.Z. Hasan.
arXiv:1502.03807

3.Discovery of Weyl semimetal TaAs.
Authors:B. Q. Lv, H. M. Weng, B. B. Fu, X. P. Wang, H. Miao, J. Ma, P. Richard, X. C. Huang, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, Z. Fang, X. Dai, T. Qian, H. Ding.
arXiv:1502.04684

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California,Berkeley
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_02
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1.Mott-Kondo Insulator Behavior in the Iron Oxychalcogenides.
Authors: B. Freelon, Yu Hao Liu, Jeng-Lung Chen, L. Craco, M. S. Laad, S. Leoni, Jiaqi Chen, Li Tao, Hangdong Wang, R. Flauca, Z. Yamani, Minghu Fang, Chinglin Chang, J.H. Guo and Z. Hussain.
arXiv:1501.00332

2.FeSe: a model system for Fe based superconductors.
Authors: B. Büchner.
KITP Program: Magnetism, Bad Metals and Superconductivity

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California,Riverside
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_03