Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Formation Mechanism and Low-Temperature Instability of Exciton Rings Authors: L.V.Butov et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308117 Phys.Rev. Letters, 92, 117404 (2004) 2. Charge Separation of Dense Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gases: Mechanism for Exciton Ring Pattern Formation Authors: R.Rapaport et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308150 Phys. Rev. Letters, 92, 117405, (2004) Recommended and a Commentary by: Peter Littlewood, University of Cambridge and […]

Authors: H.C. Liu, C. Y. Song, Z. R. Wasilewski, et al. (Phys. Rev Lett. 90, 077402 (2003) Recommended and a Commentary by: Claire Gmachl, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Dec03_01)

Authors: Richard L. Weaver and Oleg I. Lobkis Phys. Rev. Letters, 87, 134301 (2001) Recommended and a Commentary by: Al Migliori, Los alamos National Laboratory | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Nov03_02)

1. Liquid demixing in elastic networks: Cavitation, permeation, or size selection? Authors: P. Ronceray, S. Mao, A. Košmrlj, and M. P. Haataja Europhysics Letters 137 (6), 67001 31 (2022) DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ac56ac 2. Nonlocal Elasticity Yields Equilibrium Patterns in Phase Separating Systems Authors: Y. Qiang, C. Luo, and D. Zwicker Physical Review X 14, 021009 (2024) […]

1. Pure nematic quantum critical point accompanied by a superconducting dome Authors: K. Ishida, Y. Onishi, M. Tsujii, K. Mukasa, M. Qiu, M. Saito, Y. Sugimura, K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, K. Hashimoto, and T. Shibauchi PNAS 119 (18) e2110501119 (2022) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110501119 2. Lifting of gap nodes by disorder in ultranodal superconductor candidate FeSe1-xSx Authors: […]

1. Continuum excitations in a spin-supersolid on a triangular lattice Authors: M. Zhu, V. Romerio, N. Steiger, S. D. Nabi, N. Murai, S. Ohira-Kawamura, K. Yu. Povarov, Y. Skourski, R. Sibille, L. Keller, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev arXiv.2401.16581 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.16581 2. Phase Diagram and Spectroscopic Evidence of Supersolids in Quantum Ising Magnet […]

1. Direct visualization of electronic transport in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator Authors: G. M. Ferguson, Run Xiao, Anthony R. Richardella, David Low, Nitin Samarth, and Katja C. Nowack Nat. Mat. 22 1100-1105 (2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01622-0 2. Signature of anyonic statistics in the integer quantum Hall regime Authors: P. Glidic, I. Petkovic, C. Piquard, A. […]

Bifurcations of Inflating Balloons and Interacting Hysterons Authors: Gentian Muhaxheri and Christian D. Santangelo arXiv:2403.10721 DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.10721 Recommended with a commentary by Yair Shokef , Tel Aviv University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2024_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2024_03

1. Pressure-tuned quantum criticality in the locally non-centrosymmetric superconductor CeRh2As2 Authors: Meike Pfeiffer, Konstantin Semeniuk, Javier F. Landaeta, Robert Borth, Christoph Geibel, Michael Nicklas, Manuel Brando, Seunghyun Khim, and Elena Hassinger arXiv:2312.09728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.09728 2. Exposing the odd-parity superconductivity in CeRh2As2 with hydrostatic pressure Authors: Konstantin Semeniuk, Meike Pfeiffer, Javier F. Landaeta, Michael Nicklas, Christoph […]

1. A quantum sensor for atomic-scale electric and magnetic fields Authors: Taner Esat, Dmitriy Borodin, Jeongmin Oh, Andreas J. Heinrich, F. Stefan Tautz, Yujeong Bae, and Ruslan Temirov arXiv to appear (Preprint is available upon request from the authors) 2. Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs Authors: Yu Wang, Yi […]

1. Many-Species Ecological Fluctuations as a Jump Process from the Brink of Extinction Authors: Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey and Guy Bunin Phys. Rev. X 14, 011037 (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011037 2. Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs Authors: Aditya Mahadevan, Michael T Pearce, and Daniel S Fisher eLife 12:e82734 (2023) DOI: […]

1. Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems Authors: Kohei Kawabata, Ramanjit Sohal, and Shinsei Ryu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070402 (2024) and supplemental material DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.070402 2. Reviving the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems Authors: Yi-Neng Zhou, Xingyu Li, Hui Zhai, Chengshu Li, and Yingfei Gu arXiv:2310.01475; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.01475 Recommended with a commentary by […]

How to assemble a scale-invariant gradient Authors: Arnab Datta, Sagnik Ghosh and Jane Kondev eLife 11:e71365; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71365 Recommended with a commentary by Arjun Narayanan, New York University Abu Dhabi |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_02

1. Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials Authors: L. Chen, A. X. Wu, N. Tulu, J. Wang, A. Juanson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. T. Pettes, M. Campbell, C. A. Gadre, Y. Zhou, H. Chen, P. Cao, L. A. Jauregui, R. Wu, X. Pan, and […]

1. Theory of fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moiré structures Authors: Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil arXiv:2311.03445; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.03445 2. Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects in rhombohedral multilayer graphene in the moiréless limit and in Coulomb imprinted superlattice Authors: Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang arXiv:2311.04217; DOI: […]

Backbone exponent for two-dimensional percolation Authors: Pierre Nolin, Wei Qian, Xin Sun, and Zijie Zhuang arXiv:2309.05050; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.05050 Recommended with a commentary by Ilya A. Gruzberg (The Ohio State University) and Greg Huber (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub – San Francisco) |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2023_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2023_01

1. Unconventional Magnetic Oscillations in Kagome Mott Insulators Authors: Guoxin Zheng, Yuan Zhu, Kuan-Wen Chen, Byungmin Kang, Dechen Zhang, Kaila Jenkins, Aaron Chan, Zhenyuan Zeng, Aini Xu, Oscar A. Valenzuela, Joanna Blawat, John Singleton, Patrick A. Lee, Shiliang Li, and Lu Li arXiv:2310.07989; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07989 2. Dirac quantum spin liquid emerging in a kagome-lattice antiferromagnet […]

Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Graphene Moire Superlattice Authors: Zhengguang Lu, Tonghang Han, Yuxuan Yao, Aidan P. Reddy, Jixiang Yang, Junseok Seo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, and Long Ju arXiv:2309.17436; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.17436 Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: […]

Driving force and pathway in polyelectrolyte complex coacervation Authors: Shensheng Chen and Zhen-Gang Wang PNAS, v. 119, n. 36, p. e2209975119 (2022); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209975119 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg , New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2023_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2023_01

1. A multiplayer multiteam nonlocal game for the toric code Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi Phys. Rev. B 107, 035409 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.035409 2. Playing nonlocal games with phases of matter Authors: Vir B. Bulchandani, Fiona J. Burnell, and S.L.Sondhi Phys. Rev. B 107, 045412 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.045412 Recommended with a […]