Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

1. Emergent quantum criticality, Fermi surfaces, and AdS2.

Authors: Thomas Faulkner, Hong Liu, John McGreevy, David Vegh

arXiv:0907.2694; arXiv:0903.2477

2. Fermions and the AdS/CFT correspondence: quantum phase transitions and the emergent Fermi-liquid.

Authors: Mihailo Cubrovic, Jan Zaanen, Koenraad Schalm.

arXiv:0904.1993

Recommended with a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers, Andrew Cohen, Boston University and Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary |

JCCM_August09_01

Authors: M. Neupane, P. Richard, Z.-H. Pan, Y. Xu, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, X. Dai, Z.Fang, Z. Wang, and H. Ding

arXiv:0808.0346

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

JCCM_August09_02

Spatial Regulators for Bacterial Cell Division Self-Organize into Surface Waves in Vitro

Science 320 789-792 (2008)

Authors: Martin Loose, Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, Jonas Ries, Karsten Kruse and Petra Schwille

Recommended with a commentary by Martin Howard, The John Innes Centre, UK  | View Commentary |

JCCM_August09_03

Authors: Peter Wochner, Christian Gutt, Tina Autenrieth, Thomas Demmer,
Volodymyr Bugaev, Alejandro Díaz Ortiz, Agnès Duri, Federico Zontone,
Gerhard Grübel, Helmut Dosch

PNAS published online before print June 29, 2009,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0905337106

Recommended, with a commentary by Sunil Sinha, University of California San Diego. View Commentary |

JCCM_July09_01

1) Simulation of interacting fermions with entanglement renormalization
Authors: P. Corboz, G. Evenbly, F. Verstraete, and G. Vidal
arXiv:0904.415

2) Fermionic Projected Entangled Pair States
Authors: C.V. Kraus, N. Schuch, F. Verstraete, J.I. Cirac
arXiv:0904.4667

3) Fermionic multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz
Authors: P. Corboz and G. Vidal
arXiv:0907.3184

Recommended with a Commentary by Matthias Troyer, ETH Zürich | View Commentary |

JCCM_July09_02

Theory of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Authors: Lena M. Lopatina and Jonathan V. Selinger

http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3270, Physical Review Letters 102, 197802 (2009)

Recommended with a Commentary by Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana | View Commentary |

JCCM_July09_03