Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

Authors: B. Hunt, E. Pratt, V. Gadagkar, M. Yamashita, A. V. Balatsky, and J.C. Davis

arXiv:0904.4914v1 | Science 324, 632 (1 May 2009)

Recommended with a commentary by Tony Leggett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |View Commentary |

JCCM_April09_03

Broadband Ground-Plane Cloak
Authors: R. Liu, C. Ji, J. J. Mock, J. Y. Chin, T. J. Cui, and D. R. Smith.
Science 16 January 2009 323: 366-369

Recommended with a Commentary by Stephen Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_March09_01

Authors: J. D. Koralek, C. Weber, J. Orenstein, A. Bernevig, S. Zhang, S. Mack, and D. Awschalom.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4709v2 . To appear in Nature, April 2, 2009.

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

JCCM_March09_02

1. Direct measurement of critical Casimir forces
Authors: C. Hertlein, L. Helden, A. Gambassi, S. Dietrich, and C. Bechinger,
Nature 451, 172 (2008)

2. Critical Casimir Forces in Colloidal Suspensions on Chemically Patterned Surfaces
Authors: Florin Soyka, Olga Zvyagolskaya, Christopher Hertlein, Laurent Helden, and Clemens Bechinger,
arXiv:0810.1866 Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 208301 (2008)

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

JCCM_March09_03

Author: Laurent Ponson

cond-mat/0805.1802, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.

Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CFM | View Commentary (PDF) |

JCCM_Feb09_01

1. Modeling the selective partitioning of cations into negatively charged nanopores water
Authors: L. Yang, S. Garde
J. Chem. Phys. 126, 084706 (2007)

2. Anomalous Increase in Carbon Capacitance at Pore Sizes Less Than 1 Nanometer
Authors: J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, C. Portet, P. Simon, P. L. Taberna
Science, 313, 1760 (2006)

3. Osmotic water transport through carbon nanotube membranes
Authors: A. Kalra, S.G. Hummer
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 100, 10179 (2003)

Recommended with a Commentary by Albert Migliori, LANL  | View Commentary (PDF) |

JCCM_Feb09_02