A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
1. Signatures of Electron Fractionalization in Ultraquantum Bismuth
Authors:Â 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 |Â View Commentary (pdf)Â |
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
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
Structure from Fleeting Illumination of Faint Spinning Objects in Flight with Application to Single Molecules
Authors: Russell Fung, Valentin Shneerson, Dilano K. Saldin, and Abbas Ourmazd
arXiv: 0806.2341v1 [physics.bio-ph] (2008)
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) |
JCCM_Sept08_02
1. Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
Authors: Bloch, J. Dalibard and W. Zwerger,
arXiv:0704.3011; to be published in Rev. Mod. Phys.
2. A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice
Authors: Robert Jördens, Niels Strohmaier, Kenneth Günter, Henning Moritz, and Tilman Esslinger,
arXiv:0804.4009v1, Nature 455 204 (2008).
3. Metallic and Insulating Phases of Repulsively Interacting Fermions in a 3D Optical Lattice
Authors: U. Schneider, L. Hackermüller, S. Will, Th. Best, and I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch, and A. Rosch,
arXiv:0809.1464v1
4. Trapping and cooling fermionic atoms into the Mott and Neel states
Authors: L. De Leo, C. Kollath, A. Georges, M. Ferrero, and O. Parcollet,
arXiv:0807.0790v2
Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
| View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Sept08_03
Coupling of Spin and Orbital Motion of Electrons in Carbon Nanotubes
Authors: F. Kuemmeth, S. Ilani, D. C. Ralph, and P. L. McEuen
arXiv:0802.1351, Nature v. 452, 448-452 (27 March 2008)
Recommended with a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
Nonequilibrium Fluctuation Relation for Sheared Micellar Gel in a Jammed State
Authors: Sayantan Majumdar and A.K. Sood
Phys Rev Lett 101, 078301 (2008)
Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_August08_2
(I) R.D. Schaller, M. Sykora, J.F. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov: “Seven excitons at the cost of one: redefining the limits for conversion efficiency of photons into charge carriersâ€, Nano Letters, 6, 424 (2006).
(II) G. Nair and M.G. Bawendi: “Carrier Multiplication yields for CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals by transient photoluminescence spectroscopyâ€, arXiv.org :0708.3866, Phys. Rev. 76, 081304 (2007).
(III) M. Tuan Trinh, A.J. Houtepen, J.M. Schins, T. Hanrath, J. Piris, W. Knulst, A. Goossens, and L. Siebelles: “In spite of recent doubts Carrier Multiplication does occur in PbSe nanocrystalsâ€, Nano Letters, 8, 1713 (2008).
Recommended with a Commentary by G.T. Zimanyi, U.C. Davis | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_August08_ 3
Authors: Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, P. Sengupta, C. D. Batista, S. Francoual, E. Palm, T. Murphy, N. Marcano, H. A. Dabkowska, and B. D. Gaulin
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_July08_01
Authors: D. Hsieh, D. Qian, L. Wray, Y. Xia, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan.
Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_July08_02
G. I. Ogilvie and A. T. Potter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074503 (2008)
Recommended with a commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University | View Commentary |
JCCM_July08_03
Authors: Joerg Schumacher
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1634v1 [physics.flu-dyn],
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 (2008) 134502
Recommended with a commentary by Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen | View Commentary |
JCCM_June08_01
Authors: R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A.N. Grigorenko, K.S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, A. K. Geim.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3718
Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary |
JCCM_June08_02
Nature of the enigmatic pseudogap state: novel magnetic order in superconducting HgBa2CuO4+d
Authors: Y. Li, V. Balédent, N. Barisic, Y. Cho, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, G. Yu, X. Zhao, P. Bourges, and M. Greven,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2959
and
Thermodynamic signature of a phase transition to the pseudogap phase of YBa2 Cu3 Ox high-Tc superconductor
Authors: B. Leridon, P. Monod, and D. Colson.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2128
Recommended with a Commentary by Joël Mesot, Paul Scherrer Institute & ETH Zurich, Villigen, Switzerland and Christopher Mudry, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland | View Commentary |
JCCM_June08_03
Authors: Dirk Dietzel, Claudia Ritter, Tristan Monninghoff, Harald Fuchs, Andre Schirmeisen, and Udo D. Schwarz
arXiv:0805.2448v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
Recommended with a commentary by J. Fineberg, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May08_01