Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Authors: J.P. Hernandez-Ortiz, C.G. Stoltz, and M.D. Graham Physical Review Letters, 95, 204501 (2005) Recommended by Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Arizona.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jan06_03)

Authors: M. Neumann, Andrew Casey, Jan Nyéki, Brian Cowan and John Saunders Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Low Temperature Physics, Orlando, Florida. To be published by the American Institute of Physics (2006). Recommended with a Commentary by Piers Coleman, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Dec05_01)

1. Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films Authors: K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva and A. A. Firsov Science 306, 666 (2004) 2. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene Authors: K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. […]

Authors: Martin W. Zwierlein, Andre Schirotzek, Christian H. S Chunck, and Wolfgang Ketterle cond-mat/051197 2. Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas Authors: Guthrie, B. Partidge, Wenhui Li, Ramsey I. Kamar, Yean-an Liao, Randall G. Hulet cond-mat/0511752 Recommended with a commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Dec05_03)

Authors: M. Schellekens, R. Hoppeler, A. Perrin, J. Viana Gomes, D. Boiron, A. Aspect and C. I. Westbrook Sciencexpress: Science, vol. 310, page 648 (2005) Recommended with a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Nov05_01)

Authors: References given at the end of the Commentary. Recommended with a Commentary by JP Bouchaud, CEA, Saclay. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Nov05_02)

1. The Fulde-Ferrel, Larkin-Ovchinikov state in superconductors: Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity from electron spin domains Authors: H.A. Radovan et al. Nature 425, 51 (2005) 2. Superconductivity in heavy fermion CeCoIn5 Authors: Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov , Int. Conf. on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2005 (SCES’05), Vienna, to be published in Physica B 3. Texture in the superconducting order […]

Authors: M. Hermele, G. Rafael, M. P. A. Fisher, P. M. Goldbart http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508301 Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_01)

Authors: M. König, A. Tschetschetkin, E. M. Hankiewicz, J. Sinova, V. Hock, V. Daumer, M. Schäfer, C. R. Becker, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508396 Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand  I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_02)

Authors: Cristina Toninelli, Matthieu Wyart, Ludovic Berthier, Guilio Biroli and Jean Philippe Bouchaud Phys Rev E 71, 041505 (2005) Recommended and Commentary by Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Oct05_03)

1. Continuum Model for Polymorphism in Bacterial Flagella Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 248101 2. Model for Polymorphic Transitions in Bacterial Flagella Authors: S. V. Srigiriraju and T.R. Powers http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509033 Recommended and a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep05_01)

1. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Cs2CuCl4 Authors: T. Radu, H. Wilhelm, V. Yushankhai, D. Kovrizhin, R. Coldea, Z. Tylczynski, T. Luhmann and F. Steglich Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127202 (2005) 2. Bose-Einstein Condensation of S=1 Ni Spin Degrees of Freedom in NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2 Authors: V.S. Zapf, D. Zocco, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, A. Lacerda, C.D. […]

Authors: F. R. Drymiotis et al. Phys. Rev. Letters, vol. 93, 025502-1-4 (2004) Authors: C. Pantea et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0509220 Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, Bell laboratories and University of California, Riverside.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Sep05_03)

Authors: D.M. Basko, I.L. Aleiner, and B.L. Altshuler http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0506617 Recommended and a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Aug05_01)

Authors: Wallraf, D.I. Schuster, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, J. Majer, S.M. Girvin, and R.J. Schoelkopf http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502645 Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 060501 (2005) Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Aug05_02)

1. Evidence for Charge Kondo Effect in Superconducting Ti-doped PbTe Authors: Y. Matsushita, H. Blum, T. H. Geballe, and I. R. Fisher http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409174 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157002 (2005) 2. Superconductivity in Charge Kondo Systems Authors: Maxim Dzero and Jörg Schmalian http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409171 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157003 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, […]

Authors: Y. Kurosaki et. al. http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0504273 Recommended and Commentary by Matthew Fisher, KITP, Santa Barbara.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_July05_02)

Authors: M.B. Short, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018501 (2005) Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT, and Wim van Saarloos, Institute-Lorentz, Leiden University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June05_01)

Authors: F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502406 Recommended and Commentary by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_June05_02)

1. Universal adiabatic dynamics across a quantum critical point Authors:  Anatoli Polkovnikov http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0312144 2. Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition Authors: Wojciech H. Zurek, Uwe Dorner, and Peter Zoller http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503511 Recommended and Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun05_03)