Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Designer Dirac fermions and topological phases in molecular graphene.
Authors: Kenjiro K. Gomes, Warren Mar, Wonhee Ko, Francisco Guinea, Hari C. Manoharan.
Nature 483, 306 (2012)

Recommended with a commentary by Felix von Oppen, Freie Universität Berlin
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2013_03
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1. Helical edge resistance introduced by charge puddles.
Authors: Jukka I. Vayrynen, Moshe Goldstein and Leonid I. Glazman.
arXiv:1303.1766

Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, Caltech
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2013_01
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1. Thermal conductivity of supercooled water.
Authors: John W. Biddle, Vincent Holten, Jan V. Sengers and Mikhail A. Anisimov.
Phys. Rev. E 87, 042302 (2013), arXiv:1302.6280.

Recommended with a commentary by Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2013_02
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1. Nonlinearity of a voltage-gated potassium channel revealed
by the mechanical susceptibility.
Authors: Amila Ariyaratne and Giovanni Zocchi.
Physical Review X 3, 011010 (2013).

Recommended with a commentary by Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2013_03
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1. Hofstadter’s butterfly in Moire superlattices: A fractal quantum Hall effect.
Authors: C. R. Dean, L. Wang, P. Maher, C. Forsythe, F. Ghahari, Y. Gao, J. Katoch, M. Ishigami, P. Moon, M. Koshino, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, K. L. Shepard, J. Hone, P. Kim, arXiv:1212.4783.

2. Changes in Fermi surface topology and Hofstadter quantization in graphene superlattices.
Authors: L. A. Ponomarenko, R. V. Gorbachev, D. C. Elias, G. L. Yu, A. S. Mayorov, J. Wallbank, M. Mucha-Kruczynski, A. Patel, B. A. Piot, M. Potemski, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, F. Guinea, V. I. Fal’ko, A. K. Geim, arXiv:1212.5012.

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2013_01
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1. Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging
Authors: Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, A. S. McLeod, M.
Wagner, L. M. Zhang, Z. Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler,
A. H. Castro-Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilmann, D. N. Basov, Nature 487, 82 (2012).

2. Optical nano-imaging of gate-tuneable graphene plasmons
Authors: Jianing Chen, Michela Badioli, Pablo Alonso-Gonzalez, Suko
Thongrattanasiri, Florian Huth, Johann Osmond, Marko Spasenovic, Alba
Centeno, Amaia Pesquera, Philippe Godignon, Amaia Zurutuza, Nicolas Ca-
mara, Javier Garcia de Abajo, Rainer Hillenbrand, Frank Koppens, Nature 487, 77 (2012).

Recommended and a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, CSIC Madrid
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2013_02
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Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading
to Population Collapse.
Authors: L. Dai, D. Vorselen, K.S. Korolev, J. Gore, Science 336, 1175 (2012).

Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2013_03
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1. Physics of three dimensional bosonic topological insulators: Surface Deconfined Criticality and Quantized Magnetoelectric Effect.
Authors: Ashvin Vishwanath, T. Senthil, arXiv:1209.3058.

2. Three dimensional Symmetry Protected Topological Phase close to Antiferromagnetic Neel order.
Author: Cenke Xu, arXiv:1209.4399.

Recommended and a Commentary by M.P.A. Fisher, UC Santa Barbara
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2013_01
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Conduction of Ultracold Fermions Through a Mesoscopic Channel.
Authors: Jean-Philippe Brantut, Jakob Meineke, David Stadler, Sebastian Krinner, Tilman Esslinger, Science 337, 1069 (2012).

Recommended with a Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva,
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2013_02
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Vacancy-stabilized crystalline order in hard cubes.
Authors: Frank Smallenburg, Laura Filion, Matthieu Marechal, Marjolein Dijkstra, PNAS 109 (2012) 17886.

Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania,
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2013_03
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Phase Transformations and Metallization of Magnesium Oxide at High Pressure and Temperature.
Authors: R. S. McWilliams, D. K. Spaulding, J. H. Eggert, P. M. Celliers, D. G. Hicks, R. F. Smith, G. W. Collins and R. Jeanloz, Science 338, 1330-1333 (2012).

Recommended with a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2013_01
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Colloidal Aggregation in Microgravity by Critical Casimir Forces.
Authors: S.J. Veen, O. Antoniuk, B. Weber, M.A.C. Potenza, S. Mazzoni, P. Schall,
and G.H. Wegdam, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248302 (2012).

Recommended and a commentary by Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2013_02
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1. Orbital selectivity in Hund’s metals: The iron chalcogenides.
Authors: N. Lanatà, H. U. R. Strand, G. Giovannetti, B. Hellsing, L. de’ Medici, and M. Capone, Phys. Rev. B 87, 045122 (2013).

2. Strong electronic correlations from Hund’s coupling.
Authors: A. Georges, L. de’ Medici, and J. Mravlje,
arXiv:1207.3033 ; to appear in Annu. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys. 4 (2013).

Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2013_03
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1. Tetrahedral colloidal clusters from random aggregation of bidisperse spheres.
Authors: Nicholas B. Schade, Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon, Elizabeth R. Chen, Dina Aronzon, Jesse W. Collins, Jonathan A. Fan, Federico Capasso, Vinothan N. Manoharan.
arXiv:1201.3952.

Recommended with a commentary by M. E. Cates, SUPA, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2012_01
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1. Statistical-Physics-Based Reconstruction in Compressed Sensing.
Authors: F. Krzakala, M. Mézard, F. Sausset, Y. F. Sun, and L. Zdeborová.
Phys. Rev. X 2, 021005 (2012).

2. Probabilistic reconstruction in compressed sensing: algorithms, phase diagrams, and threshold achieving matrices.
Authors: Florent Krzakala, Marc Mézard, Francois Sausset, Yifan Sun and Lenka Zdeborová.
J. Stat. Mech. (2012) P08009.

Recommended and a Commentary by S.N. Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2012_02
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1. Discovery of the First Topological Kondo Insulator: SmB6.
Authors: S. Wolgast, C. Kurdak, K. Sun, J. W. Allen, D-J. Kim and Z. Fisk.
ArXiv.org/1211.5104.

2. Robust Surface Hall Effect and Non-local Transport in SmB6: Indication for an ideal Topological Insulator.
Authors: J. Botimer, D-J. Kim, S. Thomas, T. Grant, Z. Fisk and X. Jia.
ArXiv.org/1211.6769.

3. Topological Kondo Insulators.
Authors: Maxim Dzero, Kai Sun, Victor Galitski, and Piers Coleman.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 106408 (2010).

Recommended and a Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2012_03
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1. What buoyancy really is. A generalized Archimedes’ principle for sedimentation and ultracentrifugation.
Authors: Roberto Piazza, Stefano Buzzaccaro, Eleonora Secchi and Alberto Parola.
Soft Matter, 8, 7112 (2012).

Recommended with a commentary by M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_01
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1. Resonating Valence Bond States in the PEPS Formalism.
Authors: Norbert Schuch, Didier Poilblanc, J. Ignacio Cirac, and David Perez-Garcia.
Phys. Rev. B 86, 115108 (2012).

Recommeded and a Commentary by David DiVincenzo, RWTH Aachen
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_02
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1. Mott criticality and pseudogap in Bose-Fermi mixtures.
Authors: E. Altman, E. Demler, and A. Rosch.
arXiv:1205.4026.

Recommended with a commentary by Matthias Vojta, TU Dresden, Germany
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2012_03
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1. Direct observation of competition between superconductivity and charge density wave order in YBa2 Cu3 Oy.
Authors: J. Chang, E. Blackburn, A. T. Holmes, N. B. Christensen, J. Larsen, J. Mesot,
Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, A. Watenphul, M. v. Zimmermann, E. M. Forgan
and S. M. Hayden.
arXiv:1206.4333. (Nat. Phys. published online 10/14/2012.)

2. Long-range incommensurate charge fluctuations in (Y,Nd)Ba2 Cu3 O6+x.
Authors: G. Ghiringhelli, M. Le Tacon, M. Minola, S. Blanco-Canosa, C. Mazzoli,
N. B. Brookes, G. M. De Luca, A. Frano, D. G. Hawthorn, F. He, T. Loew, M. Moretti Sala, D. C. Peets, M. Salluzzo, E. Schierle, R. Sutarto, G. A. Sawatzky, E. Weschke, B. Keimer, L. Braicovich.
Science 337, 821 (2012).

Recommended with a commentary by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2012_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2012_01