Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

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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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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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