A topological Dirac insulator in a quantum spin Hall phase.

Authors: D. Hsieh, D. Qian, L. Wray, Y. Xia, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan.

Nature 454, 970 (2008)

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

JCCM_July08_02

Magnetorotational-type Instability in Couette-Taylor Flow of a Viscoelastic Polymer Liquid

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

Lagrangian Dispersion and Heat Transport in Thermal Convective Turbulence

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

Universal Dynamic Conductivity and Quantized Visible Opacity of Suspended Graphene

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

Science 320, 1308 (2008).

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

JCCM_June08_02

Does T* the temperature that defines the onset of the pseudogap regime in underdoped cuprates – correspond to a phase transition or a crossover?

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

Frictional duality observed during nanoparticle sliding

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

Surprises in spinor condensates: Spontaneous spin lattice textures.

Commentary on “Spontaneously modulated spin textures in a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate”

Authors: M. Vengalattore, S. R. Leslie, J. Guzman, D. M. Stamper-Kurn

arXiv:0712.4182, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170403 (2008),

Recommended with a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_May08_02

Electronic spin transport and spin precession in single graphene layers at room temperature

Authors: Nikolaos Tombros, Csaba Jozsa, Mihaita Popinciuc, Harry T. Jonkman, Bart J. van Wees,

arXiv:0706.1948, Nature 448, 571-574 (2007).

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

JCCM_May08_03

Oxygen continues to support superconducting life

About two articles per day in the last month on arXiv.org on the subject of Fe-pnictide Superconductors, some of them referred in the text of the commentary below.

Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |

Optical probe of electrostatic-doping in an n-type Mott insulator

Authors: M. Nakamura, A. Sawa, H. Sato, H. Akoh, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura,
arXiv:cond-mat/0702351v1; Phys. Rev. B 75, 155103 (2007)

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

1. Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge / 2. Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides

Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge
Authors: Margitta Dathe, Heike Nikolenko, Jana Meyer, Michael Beyermann, and Michael Bienert
FEBS Letters 501, 146-150 (2001)

and

Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Authors: Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101-1–16801-4 (2007)

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

GaN Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Laser at Blue-Violet Wavelengths.

Authors: H. Matsubara, S. Yoshimoto, H. Saito, Y. Jianglin, Y. Tanaka and S. Noda.
Science 319, 445 (2008)

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

JCCM_Mar08_01

Anderson Localization in Cold Bosonic Atoms.

Density modulations in an elongated BEC released from a disordered potential.
Authors: David Cl ́ement, Philippe Bouyer, Alain Aspect, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1984

Disorder-induced trapping versus anderson localization in Bose-Einstein condensates expanding in disordered potentials.
Authors: L. Sanchez-Palencia, D. Cl ́ement, P. Lugan, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1774

Effect of interactions on the localization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a quasiperiodic lattice.
Authors:J. E. Lye, L. Fallani, C. Fort, V. Guarrera, M. Modugno, D. S. Wiersma, and M. Inguscio.
Phys. Rev. A, 75(6):061603, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611146

Ultracold Atoms in a Disordered Crystal of Light: Towards a Bose Glass.
Authors: L. Fallani, J. E. Lye, V. Guarrera, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 98(13):130404, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603655

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Mar08_02

Quasiparticle charge in the ν = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state

Towards identification of a non-Abelian state: observation of a quarter of electron charge at ν = 5/2 quantum Hall state,
Authors: M. Dolev, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, A. Stern, D. Mahalu
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0930

and

Quasiparticle Tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν = 5/2,
Authors: I. P. Radu, J. B. Miller, C. M. Marcus, M. A. Kastner, L. N. Pfeiffer and K. W. West
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3530

Recommended with a commentary by Kirill Shtengel, UC Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Mar08_03

Spatial determination of magnetic avalanche ignition points

Authors: Reem Jaafar, S. McHugh, Yoko Suzuki, M.P. Sarachik, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, H. Shtrikman, R. Bagai, G. Christou

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703448

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320 (2008) 695–698

Recommended with a commentary by Albert Migliori, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_February08_01

Crystalline silicon that conducts heat like a glass

1. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials
Authors: A.I. Boukai, Y. Bunimovich, J. Tahir-Kheli, J.K. Yu, W.A. Goddard III, J.R. Heath
Nature 451, 1680 (2008)

2. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires
Authors: A.I. Hochbaum, R.K. Chen, R.D. Delgado, W.J. Liang, M. Najarian, A. Majumdar, and P.D. Yang
Nature 451, 1680 (2008)

Recommended with a commentary by S. Paschen, Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Vienna, Austria | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_February08_02

Topological Band Insulators in two and three dimensions in spin-orbit coupled systems

A. Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene
Authors: A. C. Kane and G. Mele
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411737
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226801 (2005)

B. Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells
Authors: A. Bernevig, T. Hughes, S.C. Zhang
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611399
Science, 314, 1757 (2006)

C. Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures
Authors: J. E. Moore, L. Balents
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607314
Phys. Rev. B 75, 121306(R) (2007)

D. Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions
Authors: D. Liang Fu, C.L. Kane, E.J. Mele
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607699
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106803 (2007)

Recommended and Commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_February08_03

Nanoparticle Structure: Going beyond Pictures

Structure of a thiol monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle at 1.1 A resolution,

Authors: Pablo D. Jadzinsky, Guillermo Calero, Christopher J. Ackerson, David A. Bushnell and Roger D. Kornberg

Science 318 430 (2007)

Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Jan08_01

First passage times in complex scale-invariant media

Authors: S. Condamin, O. B ́enichou, V. Tejedor, R. Voituriez, J. Klafter.

http://arXiv:0711.0682

Nature 450, 77-80 (2007)

Recommended with a Commentary by Bernard Nienhuis, University of Amsterdam | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Jan08_02

Clues to the Hidden Order Parameter in URu2Si2 through Inelastic Neutron Scattering Measurements

Authors: C.R. Wiebe, J.A. Janik, G.J. MacDougall, G.M. Luke, J.D. Garrett, H.D. Zhou, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J.R. D. Copley, Z. Yamani, and W.J. L. Buyers.

http://Arxiv:0710.0896v2

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

JCCM_Jan08_03

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