Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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.
| View Commentary |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2010_01

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2010_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2010_03

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2010_01

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2010_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2010_03

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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_01

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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_02

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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_02

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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2010_01

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2010_02

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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_01

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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_02

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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_03

Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy
Authors: Ondrej L. Krivanek, Matthew F. Chisholm, Valeria Nicolosi, Timothy J. Pennycook, George J. Corbin, Niklas Dellby, Matthew F. Murfitt, Christopher S. Own, Zoltan S. Szilagyi, Mark P. Oxley, Sokrates T. Pantelides and Stephen J. Pennycook
Nature 464, 571-574 (2010)

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_May_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2010_01

1. Recombination rate and selection strength in HIV intra-patient evolution
Authors : R.A. Neher & T. Leitner
PLoS Computational Biology, 6 (1), e10006600 (2010).

2. Rate of adaptation in large sexual populations
Authors : R.A. Neher, B.I. Shraiman & D. Fisher
Genetics, 184 (2), 467-81, (2009).

Recommended and commentary by Massimo Vergassola, CNRS/Institut Pasteur, Paris. Corresponding Member. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2010_02

Authors: S. Raghu. S. A. Kivelson and D. J. Scalapino
arXiv:1002591v1 [cond-mat.supr-con]

Recommended and Commentary by Peter Wöfle, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2010_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2010_03

Authors: A. D. OConnell, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, D. Sank, H. Wang, M. Weides,
J. Wenner, John M. Martinis, and A. N. Cleland

Nature 464, 697-703 (2010)

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2010_01

Authors: Y.-J. Lin, R. L. Compton, K. Jimenez-Garcia, J. V. Porto, and  I. B. Spielman,

Nature, vol. 462, 628 December (2009)

Recommended with a Commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, Ohio State University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2010_02

Authors: Francesco Sciortino, Achille Giacometti, and Giorgio Pastore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 237801.

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2010_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2010_03