Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

(1) Energetics of a strongly correlated Fermi gas,
Authors: Shina Tan
arXiv:0505200, Annals of Physics 323, 2952-2970 (2008)

(2) Large Momentum part of fermions with large scattering length
Authors: Shina Tan
arXiv:0508320, Annals of Physics 323, 2971-2986 (2008)

(3) Exact Relations for a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas from the Operator Product Expansion
Authors: Eric Braaten and Lucas Platter
arXiv:0803.1125, Physical Review Letters 100, 205301 (2008)

(4) Universal properties of the ultracold Fermi gas
Authors: Shizhong Zhang and Anthony Leggett
arXiv:0809.1892, Physical Review A 79, 023601, (2009)

Recommended with a Commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio | View Commentary |

JCCM_June09_01

1) Evolution of the Kondo state of Y bRh₂Si₂ probed by high field ESR
Authors: U. Schaufuß, V. Kataev, A. A. Zvyagin, B. Büchner, J. Sichelschmidt, J. Wykho, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich.
arXiv.org:0804.4105v2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076405 (2009)

2) Electron spin resonance in Kondo systems
Authors: Elihu Abrahams and Peter Wölfle
arXiv:0808.0892 , Phys. Rev, B 78, 104423 (2008).

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

JCCM_June09_02

Contact angle hysteresis generated by strong, dilute defects.

Authors: Mathilde Reyssat and David Quéré

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113 (2009) 3906

Recommended with a Commentary by Julia Yeomans, Oxford University | View Commentary |

JCCM_June09_03

1. The zero-energy state in graphene in a high magnetic field
Authors: Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, N. P. Ong
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0708.1959, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206801 (2008)

2. Divergent resistance at the Dirac point in graphene: Evidence for a transition in a high magnetic field
Authors: Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, N. P. Ong
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0808.0906, Phys. Rev. B 79, 115434 (2008)

3. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Graphene
Authors: Guohong Li, Adina Luican, Eva Y. Andrei
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0803.4016, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 176804 (2009)

Recommended with a Commentary by Paco Guinea, Madrid | View Commentary |

JCCM_May09_01

“Measurement of lling factor 5/2 quasiparticle interference with observation of charge e/4 and e/2 period oscillations”

Authors: R. L. Willett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

arXiv:0807.0221; PNAS online doi.10.1073

Recommended with a commentary by Steve Kivelson (Stanford) and Chetan Nayak (Microsoft Station Q and UCSB) | View Commentary |

JCCM_May09_02

Authors: Ambarish Ghosh and Peer Fischer

Nano Lett., Article ASAP, May 4, 2009; DOI: 10.1021/nl900186w

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

JCCM_May09_03

Three-dimensional visualization of a human chromosome using coherent x-ray diffraction

Authors: Yoshinori Nishino, Yukio Takahashi, Naoko Imamoto, Tetsuya Ishikawa and Kazuhiro Maeshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 018101 (2009)

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 |

JCCM_April09_01

Authors: M. Skarabot, M. Ravnik, S. Zumer, U. Tkalec, I. Poberaj, D. Babic, and I. Musevic

Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008) 061706.

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

JCCM_April09_03