Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Authors: M. Grayson, L. Steinke, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, L. Hoeppel, J. Smet, K. v. Klitzing, D. K. Maude, and G. Abstreiter.

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701295

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

JCCM_August07_03

Authors: Y Aoki, J C Graves, and H Kojima

http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0560

Recommended with a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_July07_01

Authors: J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and A. Yacoby
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2180

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

JCCM_July07_02

1. Measurement of the quantum capacitance of interacting electrons in carbon nanotubes

Authors: S. Ilani*, L. A. K. Donev, M. Kindermann and P. L. McEuen

Nature physics, Vol. 2, p867 (2006).
2. Quantum Capacitance Spectroscopy of Single Nanotube Molecules

Authors: Yuerui Lu, Ryan Tu, Xinran Wang, Yoshio Nishi and Hongjie Dai

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0707.0171v1

Recommended and a commentary by Rafi de Picciotto, Bell Laboratories. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_July07_03

Ab initio phasing of x-ray powder diffraction patterns by charge flipping

Nature Materials 5 647 (2006)

Authors: Jinsong Wu, Kurt Leinenweber, John C. H. Spence and Michael O’Keeffe

Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Michigan State University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_June07_01

Authors: I. Neder, N. Ofek, Y. Chung, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu and V. Umansky

http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0173; Nature (in press)

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

JCCM_June07_02

Authors: Silke Henkes, Corey S. O’Hern and Bulbul Chakraborty

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701489v1

Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_June07_03

Authors: Gang Chen, Doron L. Bergman, and Leon Balents

arXiv.org/cond-mat/0703631

Recommended with a commentary by Leonid Glazman, Minnesota | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_May07_01

Authors: T. Donner, S. Ritter, T. Bourdel, A. Ottl, M. Kohl, T. Esslinger,

Science 315, 1556 (2007)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1439

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

JCCM_May07_02

Authors: N. Xu, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel

http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v98/e175502
http://arxiv.org/cond-mat/0611474

Recommended with a commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_May07_03

Authors: G. S. Fanourgakis and S. S. Xantheas, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 4100-4106 (2006).; G. S. Fanourgakis, G. K. Schenter and S. S. Xantheas, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 141102 (1-4) (2006).

Authors: R. Bukowski, K. Szalewicz, G. C. Groenenboom and A. van der Avoird, Science 315, 1249-1252 (2007).

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

JCCM_April07_01

1. Strong suppression of weak (anti)localization in graphene

Authors: S.V. Morozov, K.S. Novoselov, M.I. Katsnelson, F. Schedin, L.A. Ponomarenko, D. Jiang, A.K. Geim

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603826

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016801 (2006)

2. Bipolar supercurrent in graphene

Authors: H. B. Heersche, P. Jarillo-Herrero, J. B. Oostinga, L. M. K. Van-dersypen, A. F. Morpurgo

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612121

Nature 446, 56 (2007)

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

JCCM_April07_02

Authors: X.P.A.Gao, G.S.Boebinger, A.P.Mills, Jr., A.P.Ramirez, L.N.Pfeiffer, and K.W.West

Physical Review B 73, 241315 (2006)

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0506031;

Recommended with a Commentary by Steve Kivelson, Stanford University. | View PDF |

JCCM_April07_03

Authors: R. D. Kamien and A. J. Liu

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701343

Recommended with a commentary by Daan Frenkel, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam | View PDF |

JCCM_March07_01

Authors: N. E. Flowers-Jacobs, D. R. Schmidt, and K. W. Lehnert

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0701536

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096804 (2007)

Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View PDF |

JCCM_March07_02

A Quantum Antiferromagnet on the Kagome Lattice

Featured papers:

1. Spin Dynamics of the spin-1/2 Kagome lattice antiferromagnet ZnCu₃ (OH)₆ Cl₂ .

Authors: J.S. Helton, K. Matan, M.P. Shores, E.A. Nytko, B.M. Bartlett, Y. Yoshida, Y. Takano, A. Suslov, Y. Qiu, J.-H. Chung, D.G. Nocera, Y.S. Lee [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107204 (2007)]

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610539

2. Ground state and excitation properties of the quantum kagome system ZnCu₃ (OH)₆ Cl₂ investigated by local probes.

Authors: O. Ofer, A. Keren, E. A. Nytko, M. P. Shores, B. M. Bartlett, D. G. Nocera, C. Baines, A. Amato.

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610540

3. Quantum magnetism in the paratacamite family: towards an ideal Kagome lattice.

Authors: P. Mendels, F. Bert, M.A. de Vries, A. Olariu, A. Harrison, F. Duc, J.C. Trombe, J. Lord, A. Amato, C. Baines [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077204 (2007)]

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610565

4. ⁶³Cu and ³⁵Cl NMR Investigation of the S = 1/2 Kagome Lattice System ZnCu₃ (OH)₆ Cl₂

Authors: T. Imai, E. A. Nytko, B.M. Bartlett, M.P. Shores, D. G. Nocera

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703141

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

JCCM_March07_03

Authors: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Jorden A. van Dam and Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Nature 439, 953-956 (23 February 2006)

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601434

Recommended with a commentary by Benjamin Huard, Stanford University | View PDF |

JCCM_February07_01

Authors: X. Lou, C. Adelmann, S. A. Crooker, E. S. Garlid, J. Zhang, S. M. Reddy, S. D. Flexner, C. J. Palmstrom, and P. A. Crowell

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0701021

Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside. | View PDF |

JCCM_February07_02

Authors: A. Tsukazaki et al.

Published online 25 January 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1137430] (in Science Express Reports)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1137430

Recommended with a Commentary by A. P. Ramirez, Bell Labs. | View PDF |

JCCM_February07_03

Authors: Jordi Soriano, Cyril Colombo, and Albrecht Ott

Physical Review Letters 97, 258102 (2006)

Recommended with a commentary by Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge | View PDF |

JCCM_January07_01