A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
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
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
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) |
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) |
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) |
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
Density modulations in an elongated BEC released from a disordered potential.
Authors: David Cl Ìement, 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 Ìement, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan08_01
Authors: S. Condamin, O. B Ìenichou, V. Tejedor, R. Voituriez, J. Klafter.
Nature 450, 77-80 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Bernard Nienhuis, University of Amsterdam | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan08_02
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.
Recommended and a Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan08_03
Quantum oscillations and the Fermi surface in an underdoped high-Tc superconductor
Authors: Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Cyril Proust, David LeBoeuf, Julien Levallois, Jean-Baptiste Bonnemaison, Ruixing Liang, D.A. Bonn, W.N. Hardy and Louis Taillefer
and
Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors
Authors: David LeBoeuf, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Julien Levallois, R. Daou, J.-B. Bonnemaison, Hussey, L. Balicas, B.J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D.A. Bonn, W.N Hardy, S. Adachi, Cyril Proust and Louis Taillefer
Nature 450, 533 (22 November 2007).
Recommended with a commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM Dec07 01
Authors: Michi Nakata, Giuliano Zanchetta, Brandon D. Chapman, Christopher D. Jones, Julie O. Cross, Ronald Pindak, Tommaso Bellini, and Noel A. Clark
Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Dec07_02
Authors: M. Konig, S. Wiedemann, C. Brune, A. Roth, H. Buhmann, L. W. Molenkamp, X-L Qi, S-C Zhang,
Recommended and a Commentary by Leonid Levitov, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM Dec07 03
Authors: O. Astafiev, K. Inomata, A.O. Niskanen, T. Yamamoto, Yu. A. Pashkin, Y. Nakamura, and J.S. Tsai
Nature 449, 588 (2007)
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Nov07_01
Authors: Marcelo Behar, Henrik G. Dohlman and Timothy C. Elston
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 16146-16151 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Martin Howard, The John Innes Centre, UK | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Nov07_02
Authors: M-S Nam, A. Ardavan, S. J. Blundell and J. A. Schlueter,
Recommended with a Commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Nov07_03