Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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1. Local stabilizer codes in three dimensions without string logical operators
Author: Jeongwan Haah
Phys. Rev. A 83, 042330 (2011)

2. On the energy landscape of 3D spin Hamiltonians with topological order
Authors: Sergey Bravyi and Jeongwan Haah
arXiv:1105:4159

Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo,
RWTH, Aachen and Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2011_01
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1. Growing interfaces uncover universal fluctuations behind scale invariance
Authors: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masaki Sano, Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn
Scientic Reports 1, 34 (2011)

2. Universal fluctuations of growing interfaces: evidence in turbulent liquid crystals
Authors: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi and Masaki Sano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230601 (2010)

3. One-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation: an exact solution and its universality
Authors: Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230602 (2010)

Recommended with a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2011_02
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1. Superconductivity in the iron selenide KxFe2Se2 (0<=x<=1.0) Authors: J. G. Guo, S. F. Jin, G. Wang, S. Wang, K. Zhu, T. Zhou, M. He, and X. L. Chen arXiv:1012.2924, Phys. Rev. B 82, 180520(R) (2010)

2. Fe-based high temperature superconductivity
with Tc=31K bordering an insulating antiferromagnet in (Tl,K)FexSe2 crystals
Authors: Ming-Hu Fang, Hang-DongWang, Chi-Heng Dong, Zu-Juan Li, Chun-Mu Feng, Jian Chen and H. Q. Yuan
arXiv:1012.5236, EPL94, 27009 (2011)

Recommended with a Commentary by Qimiao Si, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2011_03
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Hard X-ray lasers take their first steps towards nanostructure solution

1. Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser
Authors: M. Marvin Seibert, et al.
Nature 470, 78-81 (2011) doi:10.1038/nature09748

2. Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography
Authors: Henry N. Chapman, et al.
Nature 470, 73-77 (2011) doi:10.1038/nature09750

Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, and Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory | View commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_01
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1. Hall viscosity from effective field theory
Authors: A.Nicolis & Dam Thanh Son,
arXiv:cond-mat/1103.2137

Recommended with a Commentary by David Khmelnitskii, Trinity College, Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_02
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1. Undulatory swimming in viscoelastic fluids
Authors: Xiaoning Shen and P. E. Arratia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 208101

Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2011_03
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1. Experimental Spin Ratchet
Authors:Marius V. Costache and Sergio O. Valenzuela
Science 330, 1645 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Roland Kawakami,
University of California at Riverside, USA. |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2011_01
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1. Magnetically Driven Superconductivity in CeCu2Si2
Authors: O. Stockert, J. Arndt, E. Faulhaber, C. Geibel, H. S. Jeevan,
S. Kirchner, M. Loewenhaupt, K. Schmalzl, W. Schmidt, Q. Si, and F. Steglich
Nature Phys. 7, 119 (2011)

Recommended with a commentary by Peter Wölfe,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. |View Commentary (PDF)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2011_02
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1. Quantum Hall effect from the topological surface states of strained bulk HgTe
Authors: C. Brune, C.X. Liu, E.G. Novik, E.M. Hankiewicz, H. Buhmann, Y.L. Chen, X.L. Qi, Z.X. Shen, S.C. Zhang and L.W. Molenkamp
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126803 (2011)

2. Gate-tuned normal and superconducting transport at the surface of a topological insulator,
Authors: B. Sacepe, J.B. Oostinga, J. Li, A. Ubaldini, N.J.G. Couto, E. Giannini and A.F. Morpurgo,
arXiv:1101.2352

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2011_01
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1. Magnetic and non-magnetic phases of a quantum spin liquid
Authors: F.L. Pratt, P.J. Baker, S.J. Blundell, T. Lancaster, S. Ohira-Kawamura, C. Baines, Y. Shimizu, K. Kanoda, I. Watanabe and G. Saito
Nature 471, 612 (31 March 2011)

Recommended with a Commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2011_02
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1. A modular gradient-sensing network for chemotaxis in Escherichia coli revealed by responses to time-varying stimuli.
Authors: T.S. Shimizu, Y. Tu, H.C. Berg.
Molecular Systems Biology 6, 382, 2010.

2. Thermal Robustness of Signaling in Bacterial Chemotaxis.
Authors: O. Oleksiuk, V. Jakovlievic, N. Vladimirov, R. Carvalho, E. Paster, W.S. Ryu, Y. Meir, N.S. Wingreen, M. Kollmann, V. Sourjik.
Cell 145, 312-321, April 2011.

Recommended with a commentary by M. Vergassola, Inst. Pasteur & CNRS, Paris  | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2011_03
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1. Probing the relaxation towards equilibrium in an isolated strongly
correlated 1D Bose gas
Authors: Stefan Trotzky, Yu-Ao Chen, Andreas Flesch, Ian P. McCulloch, Ulrich Schollwock, Jens Eisert, Immanuel Bloch
arXiv:1101.2659 (2011)

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2011_01
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1. Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate
Authors: Y.-J. Lin, K. Jiménez-García; & I. B. Spielman
arXiv.org:1103.3522 (2011)
Nature 471, 83-86 (2011)

Recommended and with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2011_02
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1. Elastic Building Blocks for Confined Sheets
Authors: R. D. Schroll, E. Katifori, and B. Davidovitch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 074301 (2011)

2. Wrinkling hierarchy in constrained thin sheets from suspended graphene to curtains
Authors: M. P. H. Vandeparre, F. Brau, B. Roman, J. Bico, C. Gay, W. Bao, C. Ning Lau, P. M. Reis, P. Damman
arXiv:1012.4325v1 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Eran Sharon, The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2011_03
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1. Pseudogap of metallic layered nickelate R2-xSrxNiO4 (R=Nd, Eu) crystals measured using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Authors: M. Uchida, K. Ishizaka, P. Hansmann, Y. Kaneko, Y. Ishida, X. Yang, R. Kumai, A. Toschi, Y. Onose, R. Arita, K. Hel, O. K. Andersen, S.Shin, Y. Tokura
arXiv:1012.5516

2. Phase-Sensitive Observation of a Spin-Orbital Mott State in Sr2IrO4
Authors: B. J Kim, H. Ohsumi, T. Komesu, S. Sakai, T. Morita, H. Takagi, T. Arima
Science, 323 1329, 2009

3. Twisted Hubbard Model for Sr2IrO4: Magnetism and Possible High Temperature Superconductivity
Authors: Fa Wang and T. Senthil
arXiv:1011.3500

Recommendation and Commentary by Leon Balents, KITP, UCSB | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2011_01
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1. A window on the future of spintronics.
Authors: H. Ohno,
Nature Materials 9 952 (2010)

2. Role of adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin transfer torqes on magnetic domain wall motion.
Authors: Jae-Chui Lee et al.,
arXiv:1006.1216

Recommendation and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi,
University of Geneva | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2011_02
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Fluidization of tissues by cell division and apoptosis
Authors: Jonas Ranft, Markus Basan, Jens Elgeti, Jean-Francois Joanny, Jacques Prost and
Frank J¨ulicher,
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 107, 49 20863 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2011_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2011_03