Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2012_01

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

1. Flagellar synchronization independent of hydrodynamic interactions.
Authors: Benjamin M. Friedrich and Frank Julicher.
PRL 109, 138102 (2012)

Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2012_02
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1. Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension.
Authors: Thomas Gibaud, Edward Barry, Mark J. Zakhary, Mir Henglin, Andrew Ward,
Yasheng Yang, Cristina Berciu, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Michael F. Hagan, Daniela
Nicastro, Robert B. Meyer & Zvonimir Dogic.
Nature 481, 348–351 (2012)

Recommended with a Commentary by Efi Efrati, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2012_01
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1. Non-Fermi d-wave phases of strongly interacting electrons.
Authors: Hong-Chen Jiang, Matthew Block, Ryan Mishmash, James Garrison, D.N. Sheng, Olexei Motrunich and Matthew P.A. Fisher.
arXiv:1207.6608 .

Recommended and a Commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2012_02
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1. The Higgs amplitude mode at the two-dimensional superfluid/Mott insulator transition.
Authors:Manuel Endres, Takeshi Fukuhara, David Pekker, Marc Cheneau, Peter Schau?, Christian Gross, Eugene Demler, Stefan Kuhr and Immanuel Bloch.
Nature 487, 454 (2012).

2. Higgs Mode in a Two-Dimensional Superfluid.
Authors: L. Pollet and N. Prokof’ev.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 010401 (2012).

Recommended and a Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2012_03
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1. Disorder-driven quantum phase transition in superconductors and magnets.
Authors: L.B. Ioffe and M.Mézard.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 105, 037001 (2010)

2. Superconductor-insulator transition and energy localization.
Authors: M.V. Feigel’man, L.B. Ioffe and M.Mézard.
Phys. Rev.B 82, 184534 (2010)

Recommended with a Commentary by Claudio Castellani, Universita’ di Roma “La Sapienza”
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2012_01
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1. Topological crystalline insulator states in Pb(1-x)Sn(x)Se.
Authors: P. Dziawa, B. J. Kowalski, K. Dybko, R. Buczko, A. Szczerbakow, M. Szot, E. Lusakowska, T. Balasubramanian, B. M. Wojek, M. H. Berntsen, O. Tjernberg, T. Story.
arXiv:1206.1705.

2. Observation of Topological Crystalline Insulator phase in the lead tin chalcogenide Pb1-xSnxTe material class.
Authors: Su-Yang Xu, Chang Liu, N. Alidoust, D. Qian, M. Neupane, J. D. Denlinger, Y. J. Wang, L. A. Wray, R. J. Cava, H. Lin, A. Marcinkova, E. Morosan, A. Bansil, M. Z. Hasan.
arXiv:1206.2088.

3. Topological Crystalline Insulators.
Author: Liang Fu.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106802 (2011)

4. Topological crystalline insulators in the SnTe material class.
Authors: Timothy H. Hsieh, Hsin Lin, Junwei Liu, Wenhui Duan, Arun Bansil and Liang Fu.
Nat. Comm. 3, 982 (2012).

Recommended with a Commentary by Joel E. Moore, UC Berkeley and LBNL
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2012_02
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