Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2012_02
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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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1. Femtosecond dynamics of the collinear-to-spiral antiferromagnetic phase transition in CuO
Authors: S. L. Johnson, R. A. de Souza, U. Staub, P. Beaud, E. Mohr-Vorobeva, G. Ingold, A. Caviezel, V. Scagnoli, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, O. Krupin, W.-S. Lee,Y.-D. Chuang, L. Patthey, R. G. Moore, D. Lu, M. Yi, P. S. Kirchmann, M. Trigo, P. Denes, D. Doering, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, D. Prabhakaran, and A. T. Boothroyd
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037203 (2012)

2. Driving magnetic order in a manganite by ultrafast lattice excitation
Authors: M. Forst, R. I. Tobey, S. Wall, H. Bromberger, V. Khanna, A. L. Cavalieri, Y.-D. Chuang,W. S. Lee, R. Moore, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, O. Krupin, M. Trigo, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, S. S. Dhesi, J. P. Hill, and A. Cavalleri
Phys. Rev. B 84, 241104 (R) (2011)

Recommendated and a Commentary by Sunil Sinha, UCSD
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2012_03
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Sampling rare events in nonequilibrium and nonstationary
systems,
Authors: J. T. Berryman and T. Schilling,
J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244101 (2010)

Recommended and a commentary by Mike Allen, University of Warwick
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_01
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Time-reversal symmetry breaking and spontaneous Hall effect without magnetic order
Authors: Yo Machida, Saturo Nakatsuji, Shigeki Onoda, Takashi Tayama, and Toshiro Sakakibara
Nature, 463, 210, 2010.

Recommendation and Commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02
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1. Creating, moving and merging Dirac points with a Fermi gas in a tunable honeycomb lattice
Authors: Leticia Tarruell, Daniel Greif, Thomas Uehlinger, Gregor Jotzu and Tilman Esslinger.
arXiv: 1111.5020.

Recommended and a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, Ohio State University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_03
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1. Braiding of Abelian and non-Abelian anyons in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Authors: S. An, P. Jiang, H. Choi, W. Kang, S.H. Simon, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West, and K.W. Baldwin
arXiv:1112.3400

2. Telegraph noise and the Fabry-Perot quantum Hall interferometer
Authors: B. Rosenow and S.H. Simon
arXiv:1111.6475

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2012_01
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1. Macroscopic Torsional Strain and Induced Molecular Conformational Deracemization
Authors: R. Basu, J. S. Pendery, R. G. Petschek, R. P. Lemieux, and C. Rosenblatt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 237804 (2011)

Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, Kent State University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2012_02
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