A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2012_03
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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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1. Electrostatic carrier doping of GdTiO3 /SrTiO3 interfaces.
Authors: Pouya Moetakef, Tyler Cain, Daniel G. Ouellette, Jack Y. Zhang,
Dmitri O. Klenov, Anderson Janotti, Chris G. Van de Walle,
Siddharth Rajan, S. James Allen, and Susanne Stemmer.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 99 232116, (2011)
2. Carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in SrTiO3.
Authors: Pouya Moetakef, James R. Williams, Daniel G. Ouellette, Adam
Kajdos, David Goldhaber-Gordon, S. James Allen, and Susanne Stemmer.
arXiv:1204.1081
Recommended with a commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_01
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Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor
nanowire devices.
Authors: V. Mourik, K. Zuo, S.M. Frolov, S.R. Plissard, E.P.A.M.
Bakkers, and L.P. Kouwenhoven.
Science 336, 1003 (2012), arXiv:1204.2792
Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_02
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Elasticity of floppy and stiff random networks.
Authors: M. Wyart, H. Liang, A. Kabla, and L. Madadevan.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 215501 (2008)
Recommended with a commentary by Alex Levine, UCLA
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_03
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Topological semimetal and Fermi-arc surface states in the electronic structure of pyrochlore iridates.
Authors: X. Wan, A.M. Turner, A. Vishwanath and S.Y. Savrasov.
Phys. Rev. B 83, 205101 (2011)
Recommended with a commentary by Vivek Aji, University of California Riverside
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2012_01
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1) Interface induced high temperature superconductivity in single unit-cell FeSe films on SrTiO3.
Authors: Q-Y Wang, Z. Li, W-H Zhang, Z-C Zhang, J-S Zhang, W. Li, H. Ding, Y-B Ou, P. Deng, K. Chang, J. Wen, C-L Song, K. He, J-F Jia, S-H Ji, Y. Wang, L. Wang, X. Chen, X. Ma, Q-K Xue.
arXiv:1201.5694
2) Electronic Origin of High Temperature Superconductivity in Single-Layer FeSe Superconductor.
Authors: D. Liu, W. Zhang, D. Mou, J. He, Y-B Ou, Q-Y Wang, Z. Li, L. Wang, L. Zhao, S. He, Y. Peng, X. Liu, C. Chen, L. Yu, G. Liu, X. Dong, J. Zhang, C. Chen, Z. Xu, J. Hu, X. Chen, X. Ma, Q. Xue, X. J. Zhou.
arXiv:1202.5849
Recommended and a Commentary by Qimiao Si, Rice University
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Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography,
Authors: Jungwook Kim, James A. Hanna, Myunghwan Byun, Christian D. Santangelo, Ryan C. Hayward.
Science, 335, 1201 (2012).
Recommended and a Commentary by Eran Sharon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2012_03
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1. Shear flow of non-Brownian suspensions close to jamming.
Authors: B. Andreotti, J.-L. Barrat, C. Heussinger
arXiv:1112.1194
2. A unified framework for non-Brownian suspension flows and soft amorphous solids
Authors: E. Lerner, G. Düring, M. Wyart.
arXiv:1112.0558, PNAS (at press)
Recommended with a commentary by L. Berthier, CNRS/Université Montpellier 2
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2012_01
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1. Superconducting qubit in waveguide cavity with coherence time approaching 0.1ms
Authors: Chad Rigetti, Stefano Poletto, Jay M. Gambetta, B.L.T. Plourde, Jerry M. Chow, A.D. Corcoles, John A. Smolin, Seth T. Merkel, J.R. Rozen, George A. Keefe, Mary B. Rothwell, Mark B. Ketchen, M. Steffen
arXiv:1202.5533
Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2012_02
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