Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

1. Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet ”
Authors: S. Mhlbauer, B. Binz, F. Jonietz, C. Pfleiderer, A. Rosch, A. Neubauer, Georgii, P. Boni
arXiv:0902.1968 [Science 323, 915 (2009)]

2. Topological Hall effect in the A-phase of MnSi”
Authors: A. Neubauer, C. Pfleiderer, B. Binz, A. Rosch, R. Ritz, P. G. Niklowitz, Boni,
arXiv:0902.1933

3. Unusual Hall Effect Anomaly in MnSi Under Pressure”
Authors: Minhyea Lee, W. Kang, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, N. P. Ong,
arXiv:0811.3146

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

JCCM_Feb09_03

Authors: Gáspár Jékely, Julien Colombelli, Harald Hausen, Keren Guy, Ernst Stelzer, François Nédélec & Detlev Arendt

Nature 456, 395-399 (2008): doi:10.1038/nature07590

Recommended with commentary by Raymond E. Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Jan09_01

“Observation of the Spin Seebeck Effect,”

Authors: K. Uchida, S. Takahashi, K. Harii, J. Ieda, W. Koshibae, K. Ando, S. Maekawa, and E. Saitoh

Nature 455, 778 (2008)

Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Jan09_02

1. The Statistics of the Work Done on a Quantum Critical System by Quenching a Control Parameter

Author: Alessandro Silva

arXiv:0806.4301; Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 120603 (2008)

and

2. On quenches in quantum many-body systems: the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model revisited

Author: Guillaume Roux

arXiv:0810.3720

Recommended with a Commentary by Anatoly Polkovnikov, Boston University   | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Jan09_03

Authors: Sung-Yoon Chung, Young-Min Kim, Jin-Gyu Kim, Youn-Joong Kim
Nature Physics (23 Nov 2008), doi: 10.1038/nphys1148
Recommended with commentary by Daan Frenkel, Dept of Chemistry, U. Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) |

1. Superconducting interfaces between insulating oxides
Authors: N. Reyren, S. Thiel, A. D. Caviglia, L. F. Kourkoutis, G. Hammerl, C. Richter, C. W. Schneider, T. Kopp, A.-S. Ruetschi, D. Jaccard, M. Gabay, D. A. Muller, J.-M. Triscone, and J. Mannhart,
Science 317, 1196 (2007).

2. Electric-field-induced superconductivity in an insulator,
Authors: K. Ueno, S. Nakamura, H. Shimotani, A. Ohtomo, N. Kimura, T. No jima, H. Aoki, Y. Iwasa, and M. Kawasaki,
Nat. Mater. 7, 855 (2008).

3. Electric field control of the LaAlO3 /SrTiO3 interface ground state
Authors: A.D. Caviglia, S. Gariglio, N. Reyren, D. Jaccard, T. Schneider, M. Gabay, S. Thiel, G. Hammerl, J. Mannhart, and J.-M. Triscone,
arXiv:0807.0585.

4. Superconductor-normal and quantum superconductor-insulator transi-
tion at the LaAlO3 /SrTiO3 interface
Authors: T. Schneider, A.D. Caviglia, S. Gariglio, N. Reyren, D. Jaccard, and J.-M. Triscone,
arXiv:0807.0774.

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

JCCM_Dec08_02

1. Signatures of Electron Fractionalization in Ultraquantum Bismuth
Authors:  K. Behnia, L. Balicas and Y. Kopelevich,
arXiv:0802.1993, Science 317, 1729 (2007).

2. Phase Transitions of Dirac Electrons in Bismuth
Authors: L. Li, J.G. Checkelsky, Y.S. Uher, A.F. Hebard, R.J. Cava and N.P. Ong,
Science 321, 547 (2008).

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

JCCM_Dec08_03

Authors: Andrea F. Young and Philip Kim
arXiv:0808.0855

Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary (pdf) |

Dynamic Proteomics of Individual Cancer Cells in Response to a Drug
Authors: A.A. Cohen, N. GevaZatorsky, E. Eden, M. FrenkelMorgenstern, I. Issaeva, A. Sigal, R. Milo, C. CohenSaidon, Y. Liron, Z. Kam, L. Cohen, T. Danon, N. Perzov, and U. Alon.
Published online November 20 2008; 10.1126/science.1160165 (Science Express Research Articles)

Variability and Robustness in T Cell Activation from Regulated Heterogeneity in Protein Levels
Authors: O. Feinerman, J. Veiga, J.R. Dorfman, R.N. Germain, and G. AltanBonnet
Science 321 (5892), 1081 (22 August 2008).

Recommended with a Commentary by Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute, Israel | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Nov08_2

Unconventional spin freezing and fluctuations in the frustrated antiferromagnet NiGa2S4
Authors: D. E. MacLaughlin, Y. Nambu, S. Nakatsuji, R. H. Heffner, Lei Shu, O. O. Bernal and K. Ishida
http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1057

Spin disorder on a Triangular Lattice
Authors: S. Nakatsuji, Y. Nambu, H. Tonomura, O. Sakai, S. Jonas, C. Broholm, H. Tsunetsugu, Y. Qiu, Y. Maeno
Science 309 1697 (2005).

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

JCCM_Nov08_3

Authors: Max Hofheinz, E.M. Weig, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A.D. O’Connell, H. Wang, John M. Martinis, and A.N. Cleland

Nature 454, 310 (2008)

Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Oct08_01

Authors: Fangyong Yan, Christopher Adam Hixson, and David J. Earl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 157801

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

JCCM_Oct08_02

1. Specific heat Measurements: “Fully gapped superconducting state based on a high
normal state quasiparticle density of states in Ba0.6 K0.4 Fe2 As2 single crystals,” G. Mu, H.
Luo, Z. Wang, L. Shan, C. Ren and H.H. Wen.
arXiv:0808.2941.

2. ARPES Measurements:“Observation of Fermi surface-dependent nodeless superconduct-
ing gaps in Ba0.6 K0.4 Fe2 As2 ,” H. Ding, P. Richard, K. Nakayama, K. Sugawara, T. Arakane,
Y. Sekiba, A. Takayama, S. Souma, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, Z. Wang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, G.F.
Chen, J.L. Luo, and N.L. Wang.
arXiv:0807.0419, Europhys. Lett. 83, 4701 (2008).

“Unexpected Fermi surface topology in the new pnictide superconductor,” V.B. Zabolot-
nyy, D.S. Inosov, D.V. Evtushinsky, A. Koitzsch, A.A. Kordyuk, J.T. Park, D. Haug, V.
Hinkov, A.V. Boris, D.L. Sun, G.L. Sun, C.T. Lin, B. Keimer, M. Knupfer, B. Buechner, A.
Varykhalov, R. Follath, and S.V. Borisenko, arXiv:0808.2454.

“Tightly-bound Cooper pair, quasiparticle kinks and clues on the pairing potential in a high
Tc FeAs Superconductor,” L. Wray, D. Qian, D. Hsieh, Y. Xia, L. Li, J.G. Checkelsky, A. Pasupathy, K.K. Gomes, A.V. Vedorov, G.F. Chen, J.L. Luo, A. Yazdani, N.P. Ong, N.L. Wang, and M.Z. Hasan.
arXiv:0808.2185.

3. NMR on LaFePO: “Spin dynamics in iron based layered superconductor
(La0.87 Ca0.13 )FePO revealed by 31 P and 139 La NMR studies,” Y. Nakai, K. Ishida, Y. Kamihara, M. Hirano, and H. Hosono.
arXiv:0808.2293.

Recommended with a Commentary by Patrick Lee, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Oct08_03

Authors: Brian P. Tighe, Adrianne R. T. van Eerd, and Thijs J. H. Vlugt

arXiv:0803.0907, Phys. Rev. Lett, 100, 238001 (2008)

Recommended with Commentary by R.P. Behringer, Duke University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Sept08_01