Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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

Authors:. R.A. Borzi, S.A. Grigera, J. Farrell, R.S. Perry, S.J.S. Lister, S.L. Lee, D.A. Tennant, Y. Maeno, and A.P. Mackenzie

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0612599

Science 315, 158 (2007)

Recommended and a commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View PDF |

JCCM_January07_02

Authors: Raphaël P. Hermann, Veerle Keppens, Pierre Bonville, George S. Nolas, Fernande Grandjean, Gary J. Long, Hans M. Christen, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Brian C. Sales, and David Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017401 (2006)

Recommended and a commentary by S. Paschen, Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Vienna, Austria | View Commentary PDF |

JCCM_January07_03

Authors: P. Le Doussal, K. J. Wiese and co-workers

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0610525

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0606160

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0610821

Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CEN Saclay | View PDF |

JCCM_December06_01

New Developments with cold atoms.

Free Fermion Antibundching in a Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gas Released from an Optical Lattice

Authors: T. Rom, Th. Best, D. van Oosten, U. Schneider, S. Folling, B. Paredes, and I. Bloch

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0611561, Nature 444, 733-736 (2006).

Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect for boson versus fermions
Authors: T. Jeltes, J.M. McNamara, W. Hogervorst, W. Vassen, V. Krachmalnicoff, M. Schellekens, A. Perrin, H. Chang, D. Boiron, A. Aspect, C.I. Westbrook

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0612278, Nature (to be published).

Evidence for Superfluidity of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice

Authors: J.K. Chin, D.E. Miller, Y. Liu, C. Stan, W. Setiawan, C. Sanner, K. Xu, W. Ketterle

To appear in Nature.

Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, Ohio State University. | View PDF |

JCCM_December06_02

Authors: Tuson Park, M.B. Salamon

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411001

Related references:
T. Park, M. B. Salamon, E. M. Choi, H. J. Kim, and S.-I. Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 177001; K. Deguchi, Z. Mao, H. Yaguchi, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 047002; H. Aoki et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16 (2004) L13.

Recommended with a Commentary by Al Migliori, Los Alamos National Laboratory. | View PDF |

JCCM_December06_03

1. Single-Molecule, Motion-Based DNA Sequencing Using RNA Polymerase

Authors: William J. Greenleaf and Steven M. Block

Science 313, 801 (2006).

2. Sequence-Resolved Detection of Pausing by Single RNA Polymerase Molecules.

Authors: K. M. Herbert, A. La Porta, B. J. Wong, R. A. Mooney, K. C. Neuman, R. Landick and S. M. Block

Cell 125, 1083-1094 (2006).

Recommended with a commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago | View PDF |

JCCM_November06_01

Authors: Monwhea Jeng, Geoffry Piroux and Philippe Ruelle

J. Stat. Mech.(2006) P10015

arXiv.org/cond-mat/0609284

Recommended with a commentary by Deepak Dhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai | View PDF |

JCCM_November06_02

Authors: L. D. Pham, T. Park, S. Maquilon, J. D. Thompson and Z. Fisk. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 056404 (2006).

http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611654

Recommended with a commentary by H. v. Löhneysen, Universität Karlsruhe, Physikalisches Institut and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Germany | View PDF |

JCCM_November06_03

Authors: M. Tarzia and M.A. Moore

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0609113

Recommended and Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University | View PDF |

JCCM_October06_01

Authors: A. Naik, O. Buu, M. D. LaHaye, A. D. Armour, A. A. Clerk, M. P. Blencowe and K. C. Schwab

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0609297

Nature 443, 193 (2006)

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

JCCM_October06_02

Authors: P. Loubeyre, F. Occelli and R. LeToullec

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0410425

Nature 416, 613 (2002)
Authors: S. Bonev, E. Schwegler, T. Ogitsu and G. Galli

Nature 431, 669 (2004)
Authors: E.Babaev, A. Sudbo and N.W. Ashcroft; E.Smorgrav, E. Babaev, J. Smiseth and A. Sudbo

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0410408; http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0508286

Nature 431, 665 (2004)

Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, UC Riverside | View PDF |

(JCCM_October06_03)

Authors: Srdjan Ostojic, Ellak Somfai and Bernard Nienhuis

http://ArXiV.org/cond-mat/0601047 (Nature,  439, 828 (2006))

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

(JCCM_Sep06_01)