Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Robust ecological pattern formation induced by demographic noise
Authors: Thomas Butler and Nigel Goldenfeld,
Phys. Rev. E 80, 030902(R) (2009)

2. Stochastic Turing patterns in the Brusselator model
Authors: Tommaso Biancalani, Duccio Fanelli and Francesca Di Patti
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4984 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_01

Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E8 Symmetry
Authors: R. Coldea, D. A. Tennant, E. M. Wheeler, E. Wawrzynska, D. Prabhakaran, M. Telling, K. Habicht, P. Smeibidl, K. Kiefer
Science 327, 177 (2010)

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_02

1. Tunable Rashba spin-orbit interaction at oxide interfaces
Authors: N. Reyren, S. Thiel, A.D. Caviglia, M. Gabay, S. Gariglio, N. Reyren, C. Cancellieri, and J.-M. Triscone,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3731

2. Tuning spin-orbit coupling and superconductivity at the SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface: a magneto-transport study
Authors:  M. Ben Shalom, M. Sachs, D. Rakhmilevitch, A. Palevski, and Y. Dagan,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0781

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

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2010_03

1. Superconductivity in CuxBi2Se3 and its implication for pairing in the undoped topological insulator
Authors: Y.S. Hor, A.J. Williams, J.G. Checkelsky, P. Roushan, J. Seo, Q. Hu, H.W. Zandbergen, A. Yazdani, N.P. Ong and R.J. Cava,
arXiv:0909.2890, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 057001 (2010).

2. Observation of unconventional band topology in a superconducting doped topological insulator, CuxBi2Se3: Topological or non-Abelian superconductors?
Authors: L. Wray, S. Xu, J. Xiang, Y. Xia, D. Qian, H. Lin, A. Bansil, Y. Hor, R. Cava and M.Z. Hasan,
arXiv: 0912.3341.

3. Odd-parity topological superconductors: Theory and application to CuxBi2Se3
Authors: Liang Fu and Erez Berg,
arXiv: 0912.3294.

Recommended and a Commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2010_01

Authors: Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Nynke L. van Berkum, Louise Williams, Maxim Imakaev, Tobias Ragoczy, Agnes Telling, Ido Amit, Bryan R. Lajoie, Peter J. Sabo, Michael O. Dorschner, Richard Sandstrom, Bradley Bernstein, M. A. Bender, Mark Groudine, Andreas Gnirke, John Stamatoyannopoulos, Leonid A. Mirny, Eric S. Lander and Job Dekker

Science 326:289-293, 2009.

Recommended with a commentary by Yitzhak Rabin, Bar-Ilan University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2010_02

1. Nonspecific DNA-Protein Interaction: Why Proteins Can Diffuse along DNA
Authors: V. Dahirel, F. Pailluson, M. Jardat, M. Barbi and J.-M. Victor,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 228101(2009)

2. Searching Fast for a Target on DNA without Falling to Traps
Authors: O. Bénichou, Y. Kafri, M. Sheinman and R. Voituriez,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 138102(2009)

Recommended with a commentary by Daan Frenkel, Dept. of Chemistry, U. Cambridge. | View Commentary |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2010_01
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2010_01

1) Fluxonium: single Cooper pair circuit free of charge offsets.
Authors: V. E. Manucharyan, J. Koch, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret
http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0831 ; Science 326, 113-116 (2009).

2) Coherent oscillations between classically separable quantum states of a superconducting loop
Authors: V. E. Manucharyan, J. Koch, M. Brink, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3039

Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2010_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2010_02

1) Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils
Authors: X. Li, W. Cai, J. An, S. Kim, J. Nah, D. Yang, R. Piner, A. Velamakanni, I. Jung, E. Tutuc, S. K. Banerjee, L. Colombo, R. S. Ruoff
Science 324, 1312 (2009)

2) 30-Inch Roll-Based Production of High-Quality Graphene Films for Flexible Transparent Electrodes
Authors: S. Bae, H. K. Kim, X. Xu, J. Balakrishnan, T. Lei, Y. I. Song, Y. J. Kim, B. Ozyilmaz, J.-H. Ahn, B. H. Hong, S. Iijima
arXiv:0912.5485

3) Origin of spatial charge inhomogeneity in graphene
Authors: Y. Zhang, V. W. Brar, C. Girit, Alex Zettl, M. F. Crommie

Nature Physics 5, 722 (2009)

Recommended with a commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California. Riverside. | View Commentary |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2010_03
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2010_03

1) Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Authors: C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner, and SL Sondhi
ArXiv:0710.5515, Nature, 451 (7174):42-45, 2008.

2) Signature of magnetic monopole and Dirac string dynamics in spin ice
Authors: LDC Jaubert and PCW Holdsworth
ArXiv:0903.1074, Nature Physics, 5(4):258-261, 2009.

3) Measurement of the charge and current of magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Authors: ST Bramwell, SR Giblin, S. Calder, R. Aldus, D. Prabhakaran, and T. Fennell
ArXiv:0907.0956, Nature, 461(7266):956-959, 2009.

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

JCCM_Dec09_01

1) Fractional quantum Hall effect and insulating phase of Dirac electrons in graphene
Authors: Xu Du, Ivan Skachko, Fabian Duerr, Adina Luican, Eva Y. Andrei
arXiv:0910.2532, Nature 462, 192 (2009)

2) Observation of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Authors:  Kirill I. Bolotin, Fereshte Ghahari, Michael D. Shulman, Horst L. Stormer, Philip Kim
arXiv: arXiv:0910.2518, Nature 462, 196 (2009)

Recommended and a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Madrid | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Dec09_02

Authors: Homin Shin, Kirstin R. Purdy Drew, James R. Bartles, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Gregory M. Grason

Physical Review Letters 103, 238102 (2009)

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

JCCM_Dec09_03

Authors: C. Altimiras, H. le Sueur, U. Gennser, A. Cavanna, D. Mailly, and F. Pierre

arXiv:0910.2683

Recommended with a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, Yale University | View Commentary |

JCCM_Nov09_01

Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high-Tc superconductor

Authors: R. Daou, J. Chang, David LeBoeuf, Olivier Cyr-Choinière, Francis Laliberté, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and Louis Taillefer.

arXiv:0909.4430 (in press, Nature)

Recommended with a commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View Commentary |

JCCM_Nov09_02

1) Optogenetic dissection of a behavioural module in the vertebrate spinal cord
Authors: Wyart C., Del Bene F., Warp E., Scott E.K., Trauner D., Baier H. and Isacoff E.Y
Nature 461, doi:10.1038/nature08323. arXiv:0910.2683

2) Parvalbumin neurons and gamma rhythms enhance cortical circuit performance
Authors: Sohal V.S., Zhang F., Yizhar O. and Deisseroth K.
Nature 459: 698, doi:10.1038/nature07991.

Recommended with a Commentary by Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute. | View Commentary |

JCCM_Nov09_03

1) Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model
Authors: V. Gurarie, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokofev, B. V. Svistunov and M. Troyer,
Arxiv:0909.4593

2) Superfluid-insulator transition of disordered bosons in one-dimension
Authors: E. Altman, Y. Kafri, A. Polkovnikov and G. Refael,
Arxiv:0909.4096.

3) Disordered insulator in an optical lattice
Authors: M. Pasienski, D. McKay, M. White and B. DeMarco,
Arxiv:0908.1182

4) Direct observation of a magnetic Bose glass
Authors: T. Hong, A. Zheludev, H. Manaka and L.-P. Regnault,
Arxiv:0909.1496.

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva | View Commentary |

JCCM_Oct09_01

The Disorder-Free Non-BCS Superconductor Cs₃C₆₀ Emerges from an Antiferromagnetic Insulator Parent State

Authors: Y.Takabayashi, A. Y. Ganin, P. Jegli, D. Aron, T. Takano, Y. Iwasa, Y. Ohishi, M. Takata, N. Takeshita, K. Prassides, M. J. Rosseinsky

Science 323, 1585 – 1590 (2009).

Recommended by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University | View Commentary |

JCCM_Oct09_02

Authors: S Rafaï, L Jibuti, P Peyla

http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4193

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

JCCM_Oct09_03

1) Intrinsic decoherence mechanisms in the microcavity polariton condensate
Authors: A. P. D. Love, D. N. Krizhanovskii, D. M. Whittaker, R. Bouchekioua, D. Sanvitto, S. Al Rizeiqi, R. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, P. R. Eastham, R. Andre, and Le Si Dang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067404 (2008)

2) Quantized vortices in an exciton-polariton condensate
Authors: K.G. Lagoudakis, M. Wouters, M. Richard, A. Baas, I. Carusotto, R. Andre, L.S. Dang, B. Deveaud-Piedran
Nature Physics, 4, 706 (2008)

3) Observation of Bogoliubov excitations in exciton-polariton condensates
Authors: S. Utsonomiya, L. Tian L , G. Roumpos, C. W. Lai, N. Kumada, T. Fujisawa, M. Kuwata-Gonokami, A. Loffler, S. Hofling, A. Forchel, Y. Yamamoto,
Nature Physics, 4, 700 (2008)

4) Persistent currents and quantised vortices in a polariton superfluid
Authors: D. Sanvitto, F.M. Marchetti, M.H. Szymanska, G. Tosi, M. Baudisch, F.P. Laussy, D.N. Krizhanovskii, M.S. Skolnick, L. Marrucci, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, C. Tejedor, L. Vina
arXiv:0907.2371

Recommended with a Commentary by Peter Littlewood, University of Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Sept09_01

1) Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
Authors: G. Policastro, D. T. Son and A. O. Starinets
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001), arXiv:hep-th/0104066

2) Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics
Authors: P. Kovtun, D.T. Son, A. O. Starinets,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111601 (2005), arXiv:hep-th/0405231.

3) Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter, and in dyonic black holes
Authors: S. A. Hartnoll, P. K. Kovtun, M. Müller, S. Sachdev
Phys. Rev. B 76, 144502, (2007), arXiv:0706.3215v3

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

JCCM_Sept09_02

Authors: Maxime Clusel, Eric I. Corwin, Alexander O. N. Siemens and Jasna Brujic´

Nature, 460, 611-615 (2009)

Recommended with a Commentary by Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University, USA | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Sept09_03