Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Stochastic gene expressionin a fluctuating environment Authors: M. Thattai and A. van Oudenaarden Science, vol. 167, 523 (2004) 2. Phenotypic diversity, population growth, and information in fluctuating environments Authors: E. Kussell and S. Liebler Science, vol. 309, 2075 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_August06_01)

1. Elimination of the supersolid phase through crystal annealing Authors: Ann Sophie C. Rittner and John D. Reppy http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0604528 2. Superfluidity of grain boundaries and supersolid behavior Authors: S. Sasaki, R. Ishiguro, F. Caupin, H. J. Maris and S. Balibar Science Express, 3 Aug. 2006, p.1. Recommended and Commentary by A. J. Leggett, University of […]

Authors: Pankaj Mehta and Natan Andrei http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508026 Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 96, 216802 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Peter Woelfle, University of Karlsruhe. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_August06_03)

Authors: A. Kanigel, M.R. Norman, M. Randeria, U. Chatterjee, S. Suoma, A. Kaminski, H.M. Fretwell, S. Rozenkranz, M. Shi, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, Z.Z. Li, H. Raffy, K. Kadowaki, D. Hinks, L. Ozyuzer, and J. C. Campuzano http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0605499 (Nature, Phys. 2, 447 (2006)) Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary […]

Authors: S.O. Valenzuela and M. Tinkham http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605423 (Nature, in press) Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July06_02)

Authors: Gregory M. Grason and Robijn F. Bruinsma http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0601462 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 027802 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July06_03)

Authors: D. Collin, F. Ritort, C. Jarzynski, S. B. Smith, I. Tinoco Jr and C. Bustamante Nature 437 (8), 231-234 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June06_01)

(Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms) Authors: T. Kraemer, M. Mark, P. Waldburger, J. G. Danzl, C. Chin, B. Engeser, A. D. Lange, K. Pilch, A. Jaakkola, H. C. Naegerl, and R. Grimm Nature 440, 315, (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Tin-Lin Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary […]

Authors:  D. M. Broun, P. J. Turner, W. a. Huttema, S. Ozcan, B. Morgan, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy and D. A. Bonn http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509223 Recommended and Commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMasters University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun06_03)

Authors: Yong P. Chen, G.Sambandamurthy, Z. H. Wang, R. M. Lewis, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, P. D. Ye, N. L. Pfeiffer, K. W. West http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0604004 Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May06_01)

(Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in a Trapped Atomic Gas) Authors: Zoran Hadzibabic, Peter Krüger, Marc Cheneau, Baptiste Battelier, Jean B. Dalibard http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605291 (Nature, in press) Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May06_02)

Authors: B. N. J. Persson http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0603807 Recommended and Commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_May06_03)

Authors: R. Liang, D.A.Bonn, and W.N.Hardy http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0510674 Recommended and a Commentary by S.A.Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr06_01)

Authors: B. Binz, A. Vishwanath and Vivek Aji http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0602529 Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr06_02)

Authors: Weihong Zheng, John O. Fjaerestad, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Ross H. McKenzie, Radu Coldea http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0506400 Recommended and a Commentary by Matthew Fisher, UCSB.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar06_01)

Authors: Shouhua Nie, Xuan Wang, Hyuk Park, Richard Clinite, Jianming Cao Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025901 (2006) Recommended and Commentary by Albert Migliori, LANL, Los Alamos. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar06_03)

Authors: A. Punnoose and A. M. Finkel’stein http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0511305 Science 310, 289 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Claudio Castellani, Universita’ di Roma.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Feb06_01)

Authors: Denis Funfschilling and Guenter Ahlers http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0601398 Recommended and Commentary by Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago. The authors of this article have informed Professor Kadanoff that there is an error in part of their paper and that they are withdrawing their paper.  Professor Kadanoff therefore also has withdrawn his commentary on the paper. (JCCM_Feb06_02)

1. Authors: B.K. Clark and D.M. Ceperley http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0512547 2. Authors: M. Boninsegni, N. Prokof’ev, B.Svistunov http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0512103 Recommended with a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jan06_01)

Authors: G. Knebel, D. Aoki, D. Braithwaite, B. Salce and J. Flouquet http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0512078 Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jan06_02)