Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Composite fermions waltz to the tune of a Wigner crystal.
Authors: Y. Liu, H. Deng, M. Shayegan, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, K.W. Baldwin.
arXiv:1410.3435

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_01
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Stabilizing colloidal crystals by leveraging void distributions.
Authors: Nathan A. Mahynski, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Dong Meng, and Sanat K. Kumar.
Nature Communications 5,4472(2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Marjolein Dijkstra, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_02
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Robust electron pairing in the integer quantum Hall effect regime.
Authors: H.K. Choi, I. Sivan, A. Rosenblatt, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, D. Mahalu.
arXiv:1409.4427v1

Recommended with a commentary by Felix von Oppen, Freie Universität Berlin
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2014_03
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Experimental realization of the topological Haldane model.
Authors: G. Jotzu, M. Messer, R. Desbuquois, M. Lebrat, T. Uehlinger, D. Greif, and T. Esslinger.
arXiv:1406.7874v1

Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, OSU
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_01
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Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor
Authors: Stevan Nadj-Perge, Ilya K. Drozdov, Jian Li, Hua Chen, Sangjun Jeon, Jungpil Seo, Allan H. MacDonald, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Ali Yazdani
Science 346, 602 (2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_02

Quorum sensing allows T cells to discriminate between self and nonself
Authors: Thomas Charles Butler, Mehran Kardar, and Arup K. Chakraborty
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110, 11833-11838 (2013).

Recommended with a commentary by Alex Levine, UCLA
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2014_03
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On the granular stress-geometry equation
Authors: Eric DeGiuli and Christian Schoof
Europhysics Letters 105, 28001 (2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Sumantra Sarkar and Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_01

Detecting Topological Currents in Graphene Superlattices
Authors: R. V. Gorbachev, J. C. W. Song, G. L. Yu, A. V. Kretinin, F. Withers, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, L. S. Levitov, and A. K. Geim
arXiv: 1409.0113

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, CSIC
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_02

Criterion for stability of Goldstone Modes and Fermi Liquid behavior in a metal with broken symmetry
Authors: Haruki Watanabe and Ashvin Vishwanath
arXiv: 1404.3728

Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2014_03
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Two phase transitions induced by a magnetic field in graphite
Authors: Benoît Fauqué, David LeBoeuf, Baptiste Vignolle, Marc Nardone, Cyril Proust, Kamran Behnia
arXiv: 1303.4074, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 266601 (2013)

Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, Caltech
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_01
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Trajectory of Anomalous Hall Effect toward the Quantized State in a Ferromagnetic Topological Insulator
Authors: J. G. Checkelsky, B. Yoshimi, K. S. Takahashi, Y. Kozuka, J. Falson, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura
arXiv: 1406.7450

Recommended with a commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_02

Lyotropic Active Nematics
Authors: Matthew L. Blow, Sumesh P. Thampi, and Julia M. Yeomans
arXiv:1407.7493

Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, , Kent State University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2014_03
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1. Non-Fermi liquid and topological states with strong spin-orbit coupling
Authors: E-G. Moon, C. Xu, Y. B. Kim, and L. Balents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 206401 (2013)

2. Superconductivity on the brink of spin-charge order in doped honeycomb bilayer
Authors: O. Vafek, J. M. Murry, and V. Cvetkovic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147002 (2014)

3. Excitonic and superconducting orders from repulsive interaction on the doped honeycomb bilayer
Authors: J. M. Murray and O. Vafek
Phys. Rev. B 89, 205119 (2014)

Recommended with a commentary by S. A. Kivelson, Stanford University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2014_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2014_01

1) Aggregation and Segregation of Confined Active Particles
Authors: Xingbo Yang, M. Lisa Manning, M. Cristina Marchetti
arXiv:1403.0697, Soft Matter (2014)

2) Dynamics of Self-Propelled Particles Under Strong Confinement
Authors: Yaouen Fily, Aparna Baskaran, Michael F. Hagan
arXiv:1402.5583, Soft Matter, 10, 5609-5617 (2014)

Recommended with a commentary by Charles Reichhardt and Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2014_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2014_02