Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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. Batista, and A. Paduan-Filho

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505562

Recommended and Commentary by S. Paschen, Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Vienna, Austria.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Sep05_02)

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)

Authors: Tsuda et al

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409219

Phys. Rev B in press.

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0504576

Recommended and Commentary by Sadamichi Maekawa, Tohoku University, Sendai.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug05_03)

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, Rutgers University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_July05_01)

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)

Authors: S. Folling, F. Gerbier, A. Widera, O. Mandel, T. Gericke, and I. Bloch

Nature 434, 481-484 (2005)

Recommended and a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_May05_01)

1. The structure of foam cells: Isotropic Plateau polyhedra

Authors: S. Hilgenfeldt, A. M. Kraynik, D. A. Reinelt, and J.M. Sullivan

Europhys. Lett. 67 (2004) 484

2. Analysis of 3-D network structures

Author: M.E. Glicksman

Philosophical Magazine 85 (2005) 3

3. Structure of Random Foam

Authors: A.M. Kraynik, D.A. Reinelt, and F. van Swol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 20831

Recommended and Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_May05_02)

1. Efficient simulation of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems

Authors: G.Vidal

http://ArXiv.org/quant-ph/0310089

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 040502 (2004)

2. Renormalization algorithms for Quantum-Many Body Systems in two and higher dimensions

Authors: F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0407066

Recommended and Commentary by Steve White, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_May05_03)

Authors: C. Goldenberg and I. Goldhirsch

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308603

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

(JCCM_Apr05_01)

Authors: T. Senthil, L. Balents, S. Sachdev , A. Vishwanath, and M. P. A. Fisher

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312617

Physical Review B 70, 144407 (2004)

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

(JCCM_Apr05_02)

Authors: A. Gaidarzhy, G. Zolfagharkhani, R. L. Badzey, and P. Mohanty

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503260

Recommended and Commentary by Al Migliori, Los Alamos National Labs. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Apr05_03)

Authors: M. Wyart, S. Nagel, T. Witten

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409687

Recommended and a Commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, ENS, Paris.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Mar05_01)

Authors: David S. Dean, David Lancaster, and Satya N. Majumdar

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0411111

Recommended and Commentary by Deepak Dhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Mar05_02)

Authors: S. Paschen, T. Luhmann, S. Wirth, P. Gegenwart, O. Trovarelli, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, P. Coleman, and Qimiao Si

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0411074

Recommended and Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Mar05_03)

Authors: T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, P. Maioli, A. Auffeves, G. Nogues, M. Burne, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 010401 (2005)

Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |