Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
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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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1. Optimal protocols and optimal transport in stochastic thermodynamics.
Authors: E. Aurell, C. Mejia-Monasterio, P. Muratore-Ginanneschi.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250601 (2011).

2. Refined Second Law of Thermodynamics for Fast Random Processes.
Authors: E. Aurell, K. Gawedzki, C. Mejia-Monasterio, R. Mohayaee,P. Muratore-Ginanneschi.
Journal of Statistical Physics, 147, 487-505 (2012).

3. Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics.
Authors: Antoine Bérut, Artak Arakelyan, Artyom Petrosyan, Sergio Ciliberto, Raoul Dillenschneider & Eric Lutz.
Nature 483, 187-189 (2012).

Recommended with a commentary by M. Vergassola, Inst. Pasteur & CNRS, Paris
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1. Non-Euclidean geometry of twisted lament bundle packing.
Authors: Isaac R. Bruss and Gregory M. Grason.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (2012) 109, no. 27, 10781-10786.

Recommended with a commentary by Mark Bowick, Soft Matter Pro-
gram, Syracuse University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2012_01
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1. Theoretical Study of Possible Active Site Structures in Cobalt-Polypyrrole Catalysts
for Oxygen Reduction Reaction.
Authors: Z. Shi, H. Liu, K. Lee, E. Dy, J. Christunoff, M. Blair, P. Zelenay, J. Zhang, Z-S. Liu.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 16672-80 (2011).

Recommended and a Commentary by Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Labs.
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2012_02
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1. Interface-induced room-temperature multiferroicity in BaTiO3.
Authors: S. Valencia, A. Crassous, L. Bocher, V. Garcia, X. Moya, R. O. Cheri?, C. Deranlot, K. Bouzehouane,
S. Fusil, A. Zobelli, A. Gloter, N. D. Mathur, A. Gaupp, R. Abrudan, F. Radu, A. Barthélémy, and M. Bibes.
Nature Materials 10, 753-758 (2011).

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_01
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1. Brownian dynamics: from glassy to trivial.
Authors: H. Jacquin and F. van Wijland.
arXiv:1206.1586v2

Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_02
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1. Identifying Topological Order by Entanglement Entropy.
Authors: Hong-Chen Jiang, Zhenghan Wang, and Leon Balents.
arXiv:1205.4289v1

2. Nature of the Spin Liquid Ground State of the S = 1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Model.
Authors: Stefan Depenbrock, Ian P. McCulloch, and Ulrich Schollwoeck.
arXiv:1205.4858v1

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_03
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