Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Pulled Fronts and the Reproductive Individual Fluctuation-regularized Front Propagation Dynamics

Authors: Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406336

2. An exactly soluble noisy traveling wave equation appearing in the problem of directed polymers in a random medium

Authors: Eric Brunet and Bernard Derrida

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409261

Recommended and Commentary by Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago. |View Commentary|

(JCCM_Feb05_02)

Authors: M.L. Della Rocca, M. Aprili, T. Knotos, A. Gomez, and P. Spatkis

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0501459

Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Feb05_03)

Authors: Myles Steiner and Aharon Kapitulnik

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0406227

Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Jan05_02)

Authors: ID. Rugar, R. Budakian, H.J. Mamin, and B.W. Chui

Nature, 430, 329 (2004)

Recommended and Commentary by Teun Klapwijk, Delft University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Jan05_02)

Authors: Tuson Park (LANL), M. B. Salamon (UIUC)

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0411001

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

(JCCM_Jan05_03)

Authors: C. C. Homes, S. V. Dordevic, M. Strongin, D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, Seiki Koymia Yoichi Ando, G. Yu, X. Zhao, M. Greven, D. N. Basov, T. Timusk

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0404216

Nature 430 (2004) 539

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

(JCCM_Dec04_01)

Authors: I.V. Gornyi1, A.D. Mirlin and D.G. Polyakov

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0407305

Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Dec04_02)

Authors: Mehmet Bayindir et al.

Nature vol. 431, 826 (2004)

Recommended and a Commentary by Claire Gmachl, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Dec04_03)

Authors: W. W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 , 184502 (2004)

Recommended and a Commentary by Raymond Goldstein, University of Arizona, Tucsan.
| View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Nov04_01)

1. Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pair

Authors: C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D.S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 220403. (2004)

2. Observation of the Pairing Gap in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Authors: C. Chin, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, S. Jochim, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Science 20, August 2004

3. Heat Capacity of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas

Authors: J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, J.E. Thomas.

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0409283

Recommended and Commentary by Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, The Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Nov04_02)

Authors: S. Yonezawa, Y. Muraoka, Y. Matsushita and Z. Hiroi

J.Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, 357 (2004)

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

(JCCM_Nov04_03)

Authors: T. Senthil, S. Sachdev and M. Vojta

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0409033

Recommended and a Commentary by Matthew Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Oct04_01

Authors: M. Uhlarz, C. Pfleiderer, and S. M. Hayden

http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0408424

Recommended and Commentary by S. Paschen, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Oct04_02

Authors: P. D. Shipman and A. C. Newell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 168102 (2004)

Recommended and a Commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Lorentz Institute, University of Leiden. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_Sep04_03

Authors: E. Kim and M H W Chan

Nature, vol. 427, 225 (2004)

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

(JCCM_Sep04_01)

Authors: A. Najafi and R. Golestanian

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0402070

Phys. Rev. E 69, 062901 (2004)

Recommended and Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Sep04_02)

1. Spin-current and spin accumulation in 2d spin-orbit coupled systems with impurities

Authors: E.G. Mischenko, A. V. Shytov and B.I. Halperin

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406730

2. Spin-Hall effect in a disordered 2D electron-system

Authors: R. Raimondi and P. Schwab

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0408233

Recommended and a Commentary by Alexander Punnoose, Bell labs and Chandra Varma, Bell labs and University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Sep04_03)

Authors: Wei-Li Lee, Satoshi Watauchi, V.L. Miller, R.J. Cava and N.P. Ong

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0407765

Science 303, 1647, (2004)

Recommended and a Commentary by J.R Cooper, Physics Department, University of  Cambridge.  | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug04_01)

Authors: B. Paredes

Nature 429, 277 (2004);

M. Kohl et al.

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406397 (and T. Stoferle et al. PRL 92 130403 (2004));

T. Kinoshita, T. Wenger and D.S. Weiss Science 2004 0:11007001-0.

Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi,  University of  Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug04_02)

1. Dipolar spin correlations in classical pyrochlore magnets

Authors: S. V. Isakov, K. Gregor, R. Moessner, S. L. Sondhi

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0407004

2. Power-law spin correlations in pyrochlore antiferromagnets

Author: C. L.Henley

http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0407005

Recommended and a Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Yale University
| View Commentary (pdf) |

(JCCM_Aug04_03)