Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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
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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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_02
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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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2010_02
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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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2010_01
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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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_01
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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) |

DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2010_02
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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