Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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1. Quantum Ripples in Strongly Correlated Metals
Authors: E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljevic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236401 (2010)

2. Energy-Resolved Spatial Inhomogeneity of Disordered Mott Systems
Authors: E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljevic
Physica B 404, 3167 (2009)

3. Electronic Griffiths Phase of the d = 2 Mott Transition
E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljevic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206403 (2009)

Recommended with a commentary by Matthias Vojta, TU Dresden, Germany
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2012_03
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Vacancy-stabilized crystalline order in hard cubes
Authors: F. Smallenburg, L. Filion, M. Marechal, M. Dijkstra,
arXiv:1111.3466v2.

Recommended and a commentary by Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge. | View Commentary (pdf)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2011_01
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1. The role of attractive forces in viscous liquids
Authors: L. Berthier and Gilles Tarjus,
J. Chem. Phys. 134, 214503 (2011).

2. Testing “microscopic” theories of glass-forming liquids
Authors: L. Berthier and Gilles Tarjus,
Eur. Phys. E 34, 96 (2011).

Recommended and a commentary by S. A. Kivelson, Stanford University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2011_02
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1. Non-mean-eld theory of anomalously large double-layer capacitance.
Authors: M. S. Loth, Brian Skinner and B. I. Shklovskii,
Phys. Rev. E 82, 016107 (2010).

2. Model of large volumetric capacitance in graphene supercapacitors based on
ion clustering
Authors: Brian Skinner, M. M. Fogler and B. I. Shklovskii,
Phys. Rev. B 84, 235133 (2011) .

Recommended and a Commentary by Chandra Varma,
University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2011_03
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1. Inherited adaptation of genome-rewired cells in response to a challenging environment
Authors: Lior David, Elad Stolovicki, Efrat Haziz and Erez Braun
HFSP J. 4, 131 (2010)

Recommended and a Commentary by Yitzhak Rabin, Bar-Ilan University |View Commentary(PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_01
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1. Extremely strong-coupling superconductivity in artificial two-dimensional Kondo lattices
Authors: Y. Mizukami, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, M. Shimozawa, S. Yasumoto,
D. Watanabe, M.Yamashita, H. Ikeda, T. Terashima, H. Kontani and Y. Matsuda
Nature Physics 7, 849–853 (2011)

Recommended and a Commentary by Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |View Commentary(PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2011_02
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Sediments of soft spheres arranged by effective density
Authors: César Gonzáles Serrano, Joseph J. McDermott, and Darrell Velegol
Nature Materials 10, 716 (2011)

Recommended with a Commentary by Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University |View Commentary (pdf)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_01
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1. Superconductor-insulator transition in La_{2-x}Sr_{x}CuO_{4} at the pair quantum resistance
Authors: A. T. Bollinger, G. Dubuis, J. Yoon, D. Pavuna, J. Misewich, and I. Bozovic
Nature 472, 458-460 (2011)

2. Electrostatic control of the evolution from a superconducting phase to an insulating
phase in ultrathin YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-x} films
Authors: X. Leng, J. Garcia-Barriocanal, S. Bose, Y. Lee, and A. M. Goldman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 027001 (2011)

3. Indications of an electronic phase transition in 2D YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-x} induced by electrostatic doping
Authors: X. Leng, J. Garcia-Barriocanal, B. Yang, Y. Lee, and A. M. Goldman
arXiv:1108.0083v1

Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo |View Commentary (pdf)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_02
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Electrically tunable surface-to-bulk coherent coupling in topological insulator thin films.
Authors: H. Steinberg, J.-B. Laloo, V. Fatemi, J. S. Moodera, P. Jarillo-Herrero
arXiv:1104.1404 (2011)

Tunable surface conductivity in Bi2Se3 revealed in diffusive electron transport
Authors: J. Chen, X. Y. He, K. H. Wu, Z. Q. Ji, L. Lu, J. R. Shi, J. H. Smet, and Y. Q. Li
Phys. Rev. B 83, 241304/1-4 (2011)

Recommended with a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, Yale University |View commentary (pdf)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2011_03
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1. Broken Symmetry States and Divergent Resistance in Suspended Bilayer Graphene
Authors: Benjamin E. Feldman, Jens Martin, and, Amir Yacoby
arXiv:0909.2883, Nature Physics 5, 889 (2009)

2. Local Compressibility Measurements of Correlated States in Suspended Bilayer Graphene
Authors: Jens Martin, Benjamin E. Feldman, R. Thomas Weitz, Monica T. Allen, and Amir Yacoby
arXiv:1009.2069, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256806 (2010)

3. Interaction-Driven Spectrum Reconstruction in Bilayer Graphene
Authors: A. S. Mayorov, D. C. Elias, M. Mucha-Kruczynski, R. V. Gorbachev, T. Tudorovskiy, A. Zhukov, S. V. Morozov, M. I. Katsnelson, V. I. Fal’ko, A. K. Geim, and K. S. Novoselov
arXiv:1108.1742, Science 333, 860 (2011)

4. Transport Spectroscopy of Symmetry-Broken Insulating States in Bilayer Graphene
Authors: J. Velasco Jr., L. Jing, W. Bao, Y. Lee, P. Kratz, V. Aji, M. Bockrath, C.N.Lau, C. Varma, R. Stillwell, D. Smirnov, Fan Zhang, J. Jung, and A.H. MacDonald
arXiv:1108.1609

Recommended with a Commentary by Paco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Madrid, Spain |View Commentary(PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_01
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1. Computational Topology for Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks
Authors: Gunnar Carlsson, Jackson Gorham, Matthew Kahle, and Jeremy Mason
arXiv:1108.5719

Recommended with a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania, USA. |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_02
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1. Electronic Phase Separation at the LaAlO(3)/SrTiO(3) Interface
Authors: Ariando, X. Wang, G. Baskaran, Z. Q. Liu, J. Huijben, J. B. Yi, A. Annadi, A. Roy Barman, A. Rusydi, S. Dhar, Y. P. Feng, J. Ding, H. Hilgenkamp, and T. Venkatesan
Nature Communications 2, 188 (2011).

2. Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Two Dimensions
Authors: D. A. Dikin, M. Mehta, C. W. Bark, C. M. Folkman, C. B. Eom, and V. Chandrasekhar.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056802 (2011).

3. Coexistence of Magnetic Order and Two-dimensional Superconductivity at LaAlO3 /SrTiO3 Interfaces
Authors: Lu Li, C. Richter, J. Mannhart, and R. C. Ashoori
Nature Physics 7, 762 (2011).

4. Direct Imaging of the Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface
Authors: J. A. Bert, B. Kalisky, C. Bell. M. Kim, Y. Hikita, H. Y. Hwang, and K. Moler
Nature Physics 7, 767 (2011).

Recommended with a Commentary by A. J. Millis Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, USA |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2011_03
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Static Friction Coefficient Is Not a Material Constant
Authors: Oded Ben-David and Jay Fineberg
PRL 106, 254301 (2011)

Recommended with a commentary by Robert W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2011_01
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Strain-Induced PseudoMagnetic Fields Greater Than 300 Tesla in Graphene Nanobubbles,
Authors: N. Levy, S. A. Burke, K. L. Meaker, M. Panlasigui, A. Zettl, F. Guinea, A. H. Castro Neto and M. F. Crommie,
Science 30 July 2010: Vol. 329 no. 5991 pp. 544-547

Recommended with a Commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley, CA |View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2011_02
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