Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Circuit cavity electromechanics in the strong coupling regime
Authors: J.D. Teufel, D. Li, M.S. Allman, K. Cicak, A.J. Sirois, J.D. Whittaker, and R.W. Simmonds
arXiv:1011.3067

2. Optomechanically Induced Transparency
Authors: Stefan Weis, Remi Riviere, Samuel Deleglise, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, and Tobias J. Kippenberg
Science 330, 1520 (2010)

Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |

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1. Nanoscale Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for Molecules and Mesoscopic Devices in the Strong-Correlation Regime
Author: S. Florens,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 046402 (2007) (arXiv:cond-mat/0701725).

2. Dynamical Vertex Approximation for Nanoscopic Systems
Authors: A. Valli, G. Sangiovanni, O. Gunnarsson, A. Toschi, and K. Held
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 246402 (2010) ( arXiv:1003.2630).

3. A DFT+ DMFT approach for nanosystems
Authors: Volodymyr Turkowski, Alamgir Kabir, Neha Nayyar and Talat S Rahman
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22 462202 (2010).

4. Dynamical mean-field theory for molecular electronics: Electronic structure and transport properties
Authors: D. Jacob, K. Haule, and G. Kotliar
Phys. Rev. B82, 195115 (2010) (arXiv:1009.0523).

Recommended with a Commentary by A. J. Millis, Department of Physics, Columbia University | View Commentary (pdf) |

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1. Universality in the Evolution of Orientation Columns in the Visual Cortex
Authors: Matthias Kaschube, Michael Schnabel, Siegrid Löwel, David M. Coppola, Leonard E. White, and Fred Wolf
Science 1194869 Published online 4 November 2010 [DOI:10.1126/science.1194869]

Recommended with a Commentary by Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute | View Commentary (pdf) |

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1. Low-energy effective theory of Fermi surface coupled with U (1) gauge field in 2+1 dimensions
Author: Sung-Sik Lee
Phys. Rev. B 80, 165102 (2009)
2. Quantum phase transition of metals in two spatial dimensions. I. Ising-nematic order
Authors: Max Metlitski and Subir Sachdev
Phys. Rev. B 82, 075127 (2010)
3. A Controlled Expansion for Certain non-Fermi Liquid Metals
Authors: David Mross, John McGreevy, Hong Liu and T. Senthil
Phys. Rev. B 82, 045121 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2010_01
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1. Maximum and Minimum Stable Random Packings of Platonic Solids
Authors: Jessica Baker and Arshad Kudrolli
arXiv:1008.1728 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2010_02
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1. Highly Mobile Gapless Excitations in a Two-Dimensional Candidate Quantum Spin Liquid
Authors: M. Yamashita, N. Nakata, Y. Senshu, M. Nagata, H. M. Yamamoto,
R. Kato, T. Shibauchi and Y. Matsuda
Science 328, 1246 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California at Berkeley, | View Commentary (PDF) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2010_03
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1.Effect of Cobalt Incorporation and Lithium Enrichment in Lithium Nickel Manganese Oxides
Authors: H. Deng, I. Belharouak, H. Wu, D. Dambournet, and K. Amine
Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 157, 7, A776-A781 (2010)

2. MLi₂Ti₆O₁₄(M = Sr, Ba, 2Na) Lithium Insertion Titanate Materials: A Comparative Study
Authors: Damien Dambournet, Ilias Belharouak, and Khalil Amine
Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 2822–2826

3. Lithium Tetrafluoro Oxalato Phosphate as Electrolyte Additive for Lithium-Ion Cells
Authors: Yan Qin, Zonghai Chen, Jun Liu, and Khalil Amine
Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 13, 2 , A11-A14 (2010)

4. Nanostructured Lithium Nickel Manganese Oxides for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Authors: Haixia Deng, Ilias Belharouak, Russel E. Cook,b Huiming Wu, Yang-Kook Sun, and Khalil Amine
Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 157 ,4, A447-A452 (2010).

5. Olivine electrode engineering impact on the electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries
Authors: Wenquan Lu, Andrew Jansen, Dennis Dees, and Gary Henriksen
J. Mater. Res., 25, 8 (2010)

Recommended and with a commentary by Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Authors: V Guttal and I D Couzin
PNAS 107 (2010) 16172-16177

Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2010_02
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1. Itinerant ferromagnetism in a Fermi gas with contact interaction: Magnetic properties
in a dilute Hubbard model
Authors: C-C. Chang, S. Zhang and D.M. Ceperley,
arXiv: 1009.1409v1

2. Itinerant ferromagnetism of a repulsive atomic Fermi gas: a quantum Monte Carlo study
Authors: S. Pilati, G. Bertaina, S. Giorgini, and M. Troyer,
arXiv:1004.1169v1
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030405 (2010)

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2010_03
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1. Liquid gated interface superconductivity on an atomically flat film
Authors: J.T. Ye, S. Inoue, K. Kobayashi, Y. Kasahara, H.T. Yuan, H. Shimotani, and Y. Iwasa
Nature Materials 9, 125 (2010).

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2010_01
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1. Single-qubit lasing in the strong-coupling regime
Authors: Stephan André, Pei-Qing Jin, Valentina Brosco, Jared H. Cole, Alsessandro Romito, Alexander Shnirman, and Gerd Schön
arXiv:1008.2611

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)|

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2010_02
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1. Isolated optical vortex knots.
Authors: Mark R. Dennis, Robert P. King, Barry Jack, Kevin O’Holleran, and Miles J. Padgett
Nature Physics 6, 118 (2009)

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2010_03
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1. Crossover from the nonuniversal scaling regime to the universal scaling regime in quantum Hall plateau transitions
Authers: Wanli Li, J. S. Xia, C. L. Vicente, N. S. Sullivan, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeier, and K. W. West
Phys. Rev. B 81, 033305 (2010).

2. Scaling in Plateau-to-Plateau Transition: A Direct Connection of Quantum Hall Systems with the Anderson Localization Model
Authers: Wanli Li, J. S. Xia, C. L. Vicente, N. S. Sullivan, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeier, and K. W. West
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216801 (2009).

Recommended with a Commentary by Steve Kivelson, Stanford University | View Commentary (pdf) |

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Authors: Edward Barry and Zvonimir Dogic
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107 (2010) 10348.

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

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1. In situ Observation of incompressible Mott-insulating domains in ultracold atomic gases
Authors: N. Gemelke, X. Zhang, C.-L. Hung, C. Chin
arXiv:0904.1532; Nature 460, 995 (2009)

2. Probing the Superuid-to-Mott-Insulator Transition at the Single-Atom Level
Authors: W. S. Bakr, A. Peng, M. E. Tai, R. Ma, J. Simon, J. I. Gillen, S. Folling, L. Pollet, and M. Greiner.
arXiv:1006.0754; Science 329, 547 (2010)

3. Single-Atom Resolved Fluorescence Imaging of an Atomic Mott Insulator
Authors: J.F. Sherson, C. Weitenberg, M. Endres, M. Cheneau, I. Bloch, S. Kuhr
arXiv:1006.3799;
Nature advance online publication 18 August 2010|doi:10.1038/nature09378

Recommended with a Commentary by Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich. | View Commentary (pdf) |

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1. Role of interactions in an electronic Fabry–Perot interferometer operating in the quantum Hall effect regime.
Authors: Nissim Ofek, Aveek Bid, Moty Heiblum, Ady Stern, Vladimir Umansky, and Diana Mahalu.
PNAS March 23, 2010 vol. 107 no. 12 5276-5281

2. Distinct Signatures For Coulomb Blockade and Aharonov-Bohm Interference in Electronic Fabry-Perot Interferometers.
Authors: Yiming Zhang, D. T. McClure, E. M. Levenson-Falk, C. M. Marcus, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West.
Phys. Rev. B (RC) 79, 241304(R) (2009)

3. Alternation and interchange of e/4 and e/2 period interference oscillations as evidence for filling factor 5/2 non-Abelian quasiparticles
Authors: R.L. Willett, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West.
arXiv:0911.0345

Recommended with a commentary by Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute, Israel. | View Commentary (pdf) |

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1. Simulation of cholesteric blue phases using a Landau-de Gennes theory: Effect of an applied electric field.
Authors: Jun-ichi Fukuda, Makoto Yoneya, and Hiroshi Yokoyama.
Physical Review E 80, 031706 (2009)

2. Thermodynamics of blue phases in electric fields.
Authors: O. Henrich, D. Marenduzzo. K. Stratford, and M.E. Cates.
Physical Review E 81, 031706 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2010_02
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1. Glass transition of hard spheres in high dimensions
Authors: Bernhard Schmid, Rolf Schilling
arXiv:1003.4559; Phys. Rev. E 81, 041502 (2010)

2. Mode-Coupling Theory as a Mean-Field Description of the Glass Transition
Authors: Atsushi Ikeda, Kunimasa Miyazaki
arXiv:1003.5472

3. A critical test of the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition
Authors: Ludovic Berthier, Gilles Tarjus
arXiv:1005.0914

Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CFM, Paris | View Commentary (pdf) |

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2. Generation of Three-Qubit Entangled States using Superconducting Phase Qubits.
Authors:  M. Neeley, R. C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, E. Lucero, M. Mariantoni, A. D. OConnell, D. Sank, H. Wang, M. Weides, J. Wenner, Y. Yin, T. Yamamoto, A. N. Cleland, J. M. Martinis
arXiv:1004.4246

3. Quantum Non-demolition Detection of Single Microwave Photons in a Circuit.
Authors: B. R. Johnson, M. D. Reed, A. A. Houck, D. I. Schuster, Lev S. Bishop, E. Ginossar, J. M. Gambetta, L. DiCarlo, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, R. J. Schoelkopf
arXiv:1003.2734

4. Quantum process tomography of a universal entangling gate implemented with Josephson phase qubits.
Authors: R. C. Bialczak, M. Ansmann, M. Hofheinz, E. Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, H. Wang, J. Wenner, M. Steffen, A. N. Cleland, J. M. Martinis
arXiv:0910.1118; Nature Physics 6, 409 – 413 (2010)

Recommended with a Commentary by David DiVincenzo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | View Commentary (pdf) |

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Scaling theory of the Mott transition and breakdown of Gruneisen scaling near a finite-temperature critical end point
Authors: L. Bartosch,  M. de Souza,  M. Lang
arXiv:1004.4898; Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245701 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Jorg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_03
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