Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Electrostatic-elastic coupling in colloidal crystals
Authors: Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, and Rudolf Podgornik
Europhysics Letters 148, 47001 (2024), DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ad8f5d

Recommended with a commentary by Ram M. Adar , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Generalized Hydrodynamic Description of the Page Curve–like Dynamics of a Freely Expanding Fermionic Gas
Authors: Madhumita Saha, Manas Kulkarni, and Abhishek Dhar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 230402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.230402

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa , University of Tokyo
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_02
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1. Simplified derivations for high-dimensional convex learning problems associated with statistical learning
Authors: David G. Clark, and Haim Sompolinsky
arXiv.2412.01110, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.01110

2. Memorizing without overfitting: Bias, variance, and interpolation in overparameterized models
Authors: Jason W. Rocks, and Pankaj Mehta
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013201 (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013201

Recommended with a commentary by Anirvan M. Sengupta , Rutgers University and Flatiron Institute
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_03
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Characterising transport in a quantum gas by measuring Drude weights
Authors: Philipp Schüttelkopf, Mohammadamin Tajik, Nataliia Bazhan, Federica Cataldini, Si-Cong Ji, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Frederik Møller
arXiv.2406.17569, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.17569

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2024_01
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Evidence of striped electronic phases in a structurally modulated superlattice
Authors: A. Devarakonda, A. Chen, S. Fang, D. Graf, M. Kriener, A. J. Akey, D. C. Bell, T. Suzuki, and J. G. Checkelsky
Nature 631, 526-530 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07589-5

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University), Chaitanya Murthy (University of Rochester and Stanford University)
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2024_02
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Enumeration of all superconducting circuits up to 5 nodes
Authors: Eli J. Weissler, Mohit Bhat, Zhenxing Liu, and Joshua Combes
arXiv:2410.18497, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.18497

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov , Delft University of Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_01
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1. The phonon thermal Hall angle in black Phosphorus
Authors: Xiaokang Li, YoMachida,AlaskaSubedi, Zengwei Zhu, LiangLi, and Kamran Behnia
Nature Communications 14, 1027, ( 2023), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36750-3

2. Discovery of universal phonon thermal Hall effect in crystals
Authors: Xiaobo Jin, Xu Zhang, Wenbo Wan, Hanru Wang, Yihan Jiao, and Shiyan Li
arXiv:2404.02863, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.02863

3. Angle-dependent planar thermal Hall effect by quasi-ballistic phonons in black Phosphorus
Authors: Xiaokang Li, Xiaodong Guo, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia
arXiv:2406.18816, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.18816

Recommended with a commentary by Xi Dai , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_02
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Environment-Stored Memory in Active Nematics and Extra-Cellular Matrix Remodeling
Authors: Ram M. Adar and Jean-François Joanny
Physical Review Letters 133 (11), 118402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.118402

Recommended with a commentary by Kinjal Dasbiswas , University of California, Merced
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2024_03
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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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2024_02
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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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2024_01
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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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2024_02
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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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