Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

DNA choreography: correlating mobility and organization of DNA across different resolutions from loops to chromosomes
Authors: M. K. Pabba, J. Meyer, K. Celikay, L. Schermelleh, K. Rohr, and M. C. Cardoso
Histochemistry and Cell Biology (2024) 162:109–131, DOI: 10.1007/s00418-024-02285-x

Recommended with a commentary by Yuval Garini , Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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Absence of Normal Heat Conduction in Strongly Disordered Interacting Quantum Chains
Authors: Wojciech De Roeck, Lydia Giacomin, Francois Huveneers, and Oskar Prośniak
arXiv:2408.04338, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.04338

Recommended with a commentary by Chris R. Laumann , Boston University and Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems
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1. Origin of chirality in transition-metal dichalcogenides
Authors: Kwangrae Kim, Hyun-Woo J. Kim, Seunghyeok Ha, Hoon Kim, Jin-Kwang Kim, Jaehwon Kim, Hyunsung Kim, Junyoung Kwon, Jihoon Seol, Saegyeol Jung, Changyoung Kim, Ahmet Alatas, Ayman Said, Michael Merz, Matthieu Le Tacon, Jin Mo Bok, Ki-Seok Kim, and B. J. Kim
arXiv:2312.11979, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.11979

2. Observation of giant circular dichroism induced by electronic chirality
Authors: Qian Xiao, Oleg Janson, Sonia Francoual, Qingzheng Qiu, Qizhi Li, Shilong Zhang, Wu Xie, Pablo Bereciartua, Jeroen van den Brink, Jasper van Wezel, and Yingying Peng
arXiv:2312.11961, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.11961 ,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.126402

Recommended with a commentary by Yuan Li , Peking University
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1. Extended Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Graphene/hBN Moiré Superlattices
Authors: Z. Lu, T. Han, Y. Yao, J. Yang, J. Seo, L. Shi, S. Ye, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and L. Ju
arXiv:2408.10203, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.10203

2. Interplay of electronic crystals with integer and fractional Chern insulators in moiré pentalayer graphene
Authors: D. Waters, A. Okounkova, R. Su, B. Zhou, J. Yao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, X. Xu, Y.-H. Zhang, J. Folk, and M. Yankowitz
arXiv:2408.10133, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.10133

3. Displacement field-controlled fractional Chern insulators and charge density waves in a graphene/hBN moiré superlattice
Authors: S. H. Aronson, T. Han, Z. Lu, Y. Yao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. Ju, and R. C. Ashoori
arXiv:2408.11220, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.11220

4. Electric field control of superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall effects in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene
Authors: Y. Choi, Y. Choi, M. Valentini, C. L. Patterson, L. F. W. Holleis, O. I. Sheekey, H. Stoyanov, X. Cheng, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and A. F. Young
arXiv:2408.12584, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.12584

Recommended with a commentary by Trithep Devakul , Stanford University
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1. Properties of Rouse polymers with actively driven regions
Authors: Dino Osmanovic
J. Chem. Phys. 149, 164911 (2018), DOI: 10.1063/1.5045686

2. Delayed Excitations Induce Polymer Looping and Coherent Motion
Authors: Andriy Goychuk, Deepti Kannan, and Mehran Kardar
Phys Rev Lett, v. 133, 078101 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.0781016

3. Role of Charge Sequence in Polyampholyte Aggregation
Authors: Nam-Kyung Lee, Seowon Kim, Youngkyun Jung, and Albert Johner
Macromolecules, v. 57, 7474-7488 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c00595

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University
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Terahertz electric-field-driven dynamical multiferroicity in SrTiO₃
Authors: M. Basini, M. Pancaldi, B. Wehinger, M. Udina, V. Unikandanunni, T. Tadano, M. C. Hoffmann, A. V. Balatsky, and S. Bonetti
Nature, 628, 534 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07175-9

Recommended with a commentary by Dmitrii L. Maslov , University of Florida
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1. The quantum geometric origin of capacitance in insulators
Authors: Ilia Komissarov, Tobias Holder, and Raquel Queiroz
Nat. Commun. 15, 4621 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48808-x
arXiv:2306.08035, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2306.08035

2. Universal relation between energy gap and dielectric constant
Authors: Yugo Onishi and Liang Fu
arXiv:2401.04180
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.04180

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin (Yale Quantum Institute) and Kun Yang (Florida State University)
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Long distance electron-electron scattering detected with point contacts
Authors: L. V. Ginzburg, Y. Wu, M. P. Röösli, P. Rosso Gomez, R. Garreis, C. Tong, V. Stará, C. Gold, K. Nazaryan, S. Kryhin, H. Overweg, C. Reichl, M. Berl, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, W. Wegscheider, T. Ihn, and K. Ensslin
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043088 (2023)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043088

Recommended with a commentary by Leonid Levitov , Masshachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Liquid demixing in elastic networks: Cavitation, permeation, or size selection?
Authors: P. Ronceray, S. Mao, A. Košmrlj, and M. P. Haataja
Europhysics Letters 137 (6), 67001 31 (2022)
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ac56ac

2. Nonlocal Elasticity Yields Equilibrium Patterns in Phase Separating Systems
Authors: Y. Qiang, C. Luo, and D. Zwicker
Physical Review X 14, 021009 (2024)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.14.021009

Recommended with a commentary by Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , The University of Sheffield
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1. Pure nematic quantum critical point accompanied by a superconducting dome
Authors: K. Ishida, Y. Onishi, M. Tsujii, K. Mukasa, M. Qiu, M. Saito, Y. Sugimura, K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, K. Hashimoto, and T. Shibauchi
PNAS 119 (18) e2110501119 (2022)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110501119

2. Lifting of gap nodes by disorder in ultranodal superconductor candidate FeSe_1-xS_x
Authors: T. Nagashima, K. Ishihara, K. Imamura, M. Kobayashi, M. Roppongi, K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, R. Grasset, M. Konczykowski, K. Hashimoto, and T. Shibauchi
arXiv:2405.06320
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.06320

3. Superconductivity Mediated by Nematic Fluctuations in Tetragonal FeSe_1-xS_x
Authors: P.K. Nag, K. Scott, V. S. Carvalho, J. K Byland, X. Yang, M. Walker, A. G. Greenberg, P. Klavins, E. Miranda, A. Gozar, V. Taufour, R.M. Fernandes, and E. H. da Silva Neto
arXiv:2403.00615
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2403.00615

Recommended with a commentary by Andrey V Chubukov , University of Minnesota
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1. Continuum excitations in a spin-supersolid on a triangular lattice
Authors: M. Zhu, V. Romerio, N. Steiger, S. D. Nabi, N. Murai, S. Ohira-Kawamura, K. Yu. Povarov, Y. Skourski, R. Sibille, L. Keller, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev
arXiv.2401.16581
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.16581

2. Phase Diagram and Spectroscopic Evidence of Supersolids in Quantum Ising Magnet K₂Co(SeO₃)₂
Authors: Tong Chen, Alireza Ghasemi, Junyi Zhang, Liyu Shi, Zhenisbek Tagay, Lei Chen, Eun-Sang Choi, Marcelo Jaime, Minseong Lee, Yiqing Hao, Huibo Cao, Barry Winn, Ruidan Zhong, Xianghan Xu, N. P. Armitage, Robert Cava, and Collin Broholm
arXiv:2402.15869
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.15869

Recommended with a commentary by Frédéric Mila , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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1. Comparing electrical magnetochiral anisotropy and chirality-induced spin selectivity
Authors: G. L. J. A. Rikken and N. Avarvari
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 9727 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02546

2. Chirality induced spin selectivity in chiral crystals
Authors: Qun Yang, Yongkang Li, Claudia Felser, and Binghai Yan
arXiv:2312.04366
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.04366

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori , National Tsing Hua University
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1. Direct visualization of electronic transport in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator
Authors: G. M. Ferguson, Run Xiao, Anthony R. Richardella, David Low, Nitin Samarth, and Katja C. Nowack
Nat. Mat. 22 1100-1105 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01622-0

2. Signature of anyonic statistics in the integer quantum Hall regime
Authors: P. Glidic, I. Petkovic, C. Piquard, A. Aassime, A. Cavanna, Y. Jin, U. Gennser, C. Mora, D. Kovrizhin, A. Anthore, and F. Pierre
arXiv:2401.06069
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.06069

Recommended with a commentary by Roderich Moessner , MPI-PKS Dresden
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Bifurcations of Inflating Balloons and Interacting Hysterons
Authors: Gentian Muhaxheri and Christian D. Santangelo
arXiv:2403.10721
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.10721

Recommended with a commentary by Yair Shokef , Tel Aviv University
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1. Pressure-tuned quantum criticality in the locally non-centrosymmetric superconductor CeRh₂As₂
Authors: Meike Pfeiffer, Konstantin Semeniuk, Javier F. Landaeta, Robert Borth, Christoph Geibel, Michael Nicklas, Manuel Brando, Seunghyun Khim, and Elena Hassinger
arXiv:2312.09728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.09728

2. Exposing the odd-parity superconductivity in CeRh₂As₂ with hydrostatic pressure
Authors: Konstantin Semeniuk, Meike Pfeiffer, Javier F. Landaeta, Michael Nicklas, Christoph Geibel, Manuel Brando, Seunghyun Khim, and Elena Hassinger
arXiv:2312.09729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.09729

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel F. Agterberg , University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
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1. A quantum sensor for atomic-scale electric and magnetic fields
Authors: Taner Esat, Dmitriy Borodin, Jeongmin Oh, Andreas J. Heinrich, F. Stefan Tautz, Yujeong Bae, and Ruslan Temirov
arXiv to appear (Preprint is available upon request from the authors)

2. Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs
Authors: Yu Wang, Yi Chen1, Hong T. Bui, Christoph Wolf, Masahiro Haze, Cristina Mier, Jinkyung Kim, Deung-Jang Choi, Christopher P. Lutz, Yujeong Bae, Soo-hyon Phark, and Andreas J. Heinrich
Science 382,87–92 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade5050

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee , MIT
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1. Many-Species Ecological Fluctuations as a Jump Process from the Brink of Extinction
Authors: Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey and Guy Bunin
Phys. Rev. X 14, 011037 (2024)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011037

2. Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs
Authors: Aditya Mahadevan, Michael T Pearce, and Daniel S Fisher
eLife 12:e82734 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82734

Recommended with a commentary by Pankaj Mehta , Boston University
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1. Superfluid fraction in an interacting spatially modulated Bose-Einstein condensate
Authors: R G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.226003
arXiv:2302.01776; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.01776

2. Observation of anisotropic superfluid density in an artificial crystal
Authors: Junheng Tao, Mingshu Zhao, and Ian Spielman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163401 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.163401
arXiv:2301.01258; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.01258

3. Superfluid fraction of interacting bosonic gases
Authors: Daniel Pérez-Cruz, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, and Pietro Massignan
arXiv:2403.08416 ; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2403.08416

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi , University of Geneva
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1. Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems
Authors: Kohei Kawabata, Ramanjit Sohal, and Shinsei Ryu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070402 (2024) and supplemental material
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.070402

2. Reviving the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems
Authors: Yi-Neng Zhou, Xingyu Li, Hui Zhai, Chengshu Li, and Yingfei Gu
arXiv:2310.01475; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.01475

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas , University of California, San Diego
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How to assemble a scale-invariant gradient
Authors: Arnab Datta, Sagnik Ghosh and Jane Kondev
eLife 11:e71365; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71365

Recommended with a commentary by Arjun Narayanan, New York University Abu Dhabi
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