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The Higgs mode in condensed matter

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 […]

Is glassy physics relevant to superconductor-insulator transition?

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” | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2012_01 […]

Topology, Crystallized

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 […]

Stochastic thermodynamics : the cost of time

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 […]

Riemannian surfaces encode the structure of filament bundles

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 | View Commentary (pdf) | DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2012_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2012_01

The search for non-platinum-group electrocatalysts

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. | View Commentary […]

Search for room-temperature multiferroics: ferroelectric-ferromagnet interfaces

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 […]

Brownian dynamics: from glassy to trivial

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 |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2012_02

Identifying a spin liquid on the Kagome lattice using quantum entanglement

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 |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: […]

A better oxide interface?

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 […]

Majorana fermions debut

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 |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_02

Elasticity of floppy and stiff random networks

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 |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2012_03

And now, Weyl fermions

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2012_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2012_01

High Temperature Superconductivity in an Iron Chalcogenide with a Very Simple Fermi-Surface

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 […]

Suspension rheology at zero temperature

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 |View Commentary (PDF)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2012_01 […]

Giant improvements in coherence time for superconducting qubits

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 […]

Pump-probe experiments at X-ray free electron laser sources

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. […]

Nonequilibrium Rare-Event Sampling

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_01

Anomalous Hall effect and chiral spin liquid in a metallic pyrochlore

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2012_02

Developments in anyonic interferometry

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, […]

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