Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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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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