Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2015_03

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2015_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2015_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2015_03

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_01

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2015_02

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

1.Time Reversal Invariant Topologically Insulating Circuits.
Authors: Jia Ningyuan, Ariel Sommer, David Schuster, Jonathan Simon.
arXiv:1309.0878

2.Topological properties of linear circuit lattices.
Authors: Victor V. Albert, Leonid I. Glazman, Liang Jiang.
arXiv:1410.1243

3.Spin-orbit-free Topological Insulators without Time-Reversal Symmetry
Authors: A. Alexandradinata, Chen Fang, Matthew J. Gilbert, B. Andrei Bernevig.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 113,116403(2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_01

Chromosome positioning from activity-based segregation.
Authors: N. Ganai, S. Sengupta and G. Menon.
Nucleic Acid Research 42,4145(2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Jean-François Joanny , ESPCI, Paris
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_02

1.Epitaxy of SemiconductorSuperconductor nanowires.
Authors: P. Krogstrup, N. L. B. Ziino, W. Chang, S. M. Albrecht, M. H. Madsen, E. Johnson, J. Nygard, C. M. Marcus and T. S. Jespersen.
arXiv:1411.6254

2.Hard Gap in Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowires
Authors: W. Chang, S. M. Albrecht, T. S. Jespersen, F. Kuemmeth, P. Krogstrup, J. Nygard, and C. M. Marcus.
arXiv:1411.6255

Recommended with a commentary by T.M.Klapwijk, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2015_03

Conventional superconductivity at 190 K at high pressures.
Authors: A.P. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, and I. A. Troyan.
arXiv:1412.0460

Recommended with a commentary by Zachary Fisk, UC Irvine and J. D. Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_01

1. Stacked endoplasmic reticulum sheets are connected by helicoidal membrane motifs.
Authors: M. Terasaki, T. Shemesh, N. Kasthuri, R. W. Klemm, R. Schalek, K. J. Hayworth,
A. R. Hand, M. Yankova, G. Huber, J. W. Lichtman, T. A. Rapoport, and M. M. Kozlov.
Cell 154, 285(2013)
2. Terasaki spiral ramps in the rough endoplasmic reticulum
Authors:J. Guven, G. Huber, and D. M. Valencia.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 113, 188101(2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_02

Novel Itinerant Antiferromagnet TiAu.
Authors: E. Svanidze, Jiakui K. Wang, T. Besara,L.Liu,Q. Huang,T. Siegrist, B. Frandsen,J. W. Lynn, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Monika Barbara Gamza, M. C. Aronson, Y. J. Uemura, and E. Morosan.
arXiv:1409.0811

Recommended with a commentary by Andy Schofield, University of Birmingham, UK
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2014_03