Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Oscillations of the thermal conductivity in the spin-liquid state of α-RuCl₃
Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, and N. P. Ong
Nature Physics 17, 915–919 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01243-x

2. The planar thermal Hall conductivity in α-RuCl₃
Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Nicholas Quirk, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, and N. P. Ong
arXiv:2111.0xxxx (to appear)

3. Robustness of the thermal Hall effect close to half-quantization in a field-induced spin liquid state
Authors: J.A.N. Bruin, R.R. Claus, Y. Matsumoto, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, and H. Takagi
arXiv:2104.12184

4. Evidence of a Phonon Hall Effect in the Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate α-RuCl₃
Authors: É. Lefrançois, G. Grissonnanche, J. Baglo, P. Lampen-Kelley, J. Yan, C. Balz, D. Mandrus, S. E. Nagler, S. Kim, Young-June Kim, N. Doiron-Leyraud, and L. Taillefer
arXiv:2111.05493

5. Sign Structure of Thermal Hall Conductivity and Topological Magnons for In-Plane Field Polarized Kitaev Magnets
Authors: Li Ern Chern , Emily Z. Zhang , and Yong Baek Kim
Physical Review Letters 126, 147201 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.147201

6. Pseudoscalar U(1) spin liquids in α-RuCl₃
Authors: Inti Sodemann Villadiego
arXiv:2106.05290

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1. Active topological glass
Authors: Jan Smrek, Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, and Kurt Kremer
Nature Communications, 11: 26, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13696-z

2. Emergence of active topological glass through directed chain dynamics and nonequilibrium phase separation
Authors: Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, Kurt Kremer, and Jan Smrek
Physical Review Research, 2: 043249, 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043249

Recommended with a commentary by Dimitris Vlassopoulos, University of Crete and Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH
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1. Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Authors: Google Quantum AI and collaborators
arXiv:2107.13571

2. Observation of a many-body-localized discrete time crystal with a programmable spin-based quantum simulator
Authors: J. Randall, C. E. Bradley, F. V. van der Gronden, A. Galicia, M. H. Abobeih, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, F. Machado, N. Y. Yao, and T. H. Taminiau
arXiv:2107.00736

3. Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems
Authors: V. Khemani, A. Lazarides, R. Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi
Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 250401 (2016); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.250401
arXiv:1508.03344

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego
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Quantized Nonlinear Conductance in Ballistic Metals
Authors: C. L. Kane
arXiv:2108.05870

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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Odd Diffusivity of Chiral Random Motion
Authors: Cory Hargus, Jeffrey M. Epstein, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178001 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.178001
arXiv:2103.09958

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University
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1. Millisecond coherence in a superconducting qubit
Authors: Aaron Somoroff, Quentin Ficheux, Raymond A. Mencia, Haonan Xiong, Roman V. Kuzmin, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan
arXiv:2103.08578

2. New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds
Authors: Alexander P. M. Place, Lila V. H. Rodgers, Pranav Mundada, Basil M. Smitham, Mattias Fitzpatrick, Zhaoqi Leng, Anjali Premkumar, Jacob Bryon, Andrei Vrajitoarea, Sara Sussman, Guangming Cheng, Trisha Madhavan, Harshvardhan K. Babla, Xuan Hoang Le, Youqi Gang, Berthold Jäck, András Gyenis, Nan Yao, Robert J. Cava, Nathalie P. de Leon, and Andrew A. Houck
Nature Communications 12, 1779 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22030-5
arXiv:2003.00024

3. Protecting a bosonic qubit with autonomous quantum error correction
Authors: Jeffrey M. Gertler, Brian Baker, Juliang Li, Shruti Shirol, Jens Koch, and Chen Wang
Nature 590, 243-248 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03257-0
arXiv:2004.09322

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University
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Gut bacterial aggregates as living gels
Authors: Brandon H. Schlomann, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy
eLife 2021;10:e71105; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71105

Recommended with a commentary by Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Purdue University and Santa Fe Institute
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1. Quantum criticality in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides
Authors: Augusto Ghiotto, En-Min Shih, Giancarlo S. S. G. Pereira, Daniel A. Rhodes, Bumho Kim, Jiawei Zang, Andrew J. Millis, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Lei Wang, Cory R. Dean, and Abhay N. Pasupathy
Nature 597, 345–349 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03815-6
arXiv:2103.09796

2. Continuous Mott transition in semiconductor moiré superlattices
Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Lizhong Li, Yang Zhang, Kaifei Kang, Jiacheng Zhu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Debanjan Chowdhury, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak
Nature 597, 350–354 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03853-0
arXiv:2103.09779

3. Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands
Authors: Tingxin Li, Shengwei Jiang, Bowen Shen, Yang Zhang, Lizhong Li, Trithep Devakul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Liang Fu, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak
arXiv:2107.01796

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT
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1. Exact bosonization in two spatial dimensions and a new class of lattice gauge theories
Authors: Yu-An Chen, Anton Kapustin, and Djordje Radicevic
Annals of Physics 393, 234 (2018); DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2018.03.024
arXiv:1711.00515

2. Constraints of kinematic bosonization in two and higher dimensions
Authors: Arkadiusz Bochniak, Blazej Ruba, Jacek Wosiek, and Adam Wyrzykowski
Phys. Rev. D 102, 114502 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.114502
arXiv:2004.00988

3. Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation in higher dimensions
Authors: Hoi Chun Po
arXiv:2107.10842

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa, University of Tokyo
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Theory of Hofstadter Superconductors
Authors: Daniel Shaffer, Jian Wang, Luiz H. Santos
arXiv:2108.04831

Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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1. Generalized hydrodynamics in strongly interacting 1D Bose gases
Authors: Neel Malvania, Yicheng Zhang, Yuan Le, Jerome Dubail, Marcos Rigol, and David S. Weiss
arXiv:2009.06651

2. Generalized HydroDynamics on an Atom Chip
Authors: Max Schemmer, Isabelle Bouchoule, Benjamin Doyon, and Jerome Dubail
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090601 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.090601
arXiv:1810.07170

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
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Global constraints within the developmental program of the Drosophila wing
Authors: Vasyl Alba, James E. Carthew, Richard W. Carthew, and Madhav Mani
eLife 10, e66750 (2021); DOI: 10.7554/eLife.66750

Recommended with a commentary by David K. Lubensky, University of Michigan
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A strange metal in a bosonic system
Authors: Chao Yang, Haiwen Liu, Yi Liu, Jiandong Wang, Sishuang Wang, Yang Wang, Qianmei He, Yue Tang, Jian Wang, X.C. Xie, James M. Valles Jr., Jie Xiong, and Yanrong Li
arXiv:2105.02654

Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Riverside
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1. Topological Shiba bands in artificial spin chains on superconductors
Authors: L. Schneider, P. Beck, T. Posske, D. Crawford, E. Mascot, S. Rachel, R. Wiesendanger, and J. Wiebe
Nat. Phys. (2021); DOI:10.1038/s41567-021-01234-y
arXiv:2104.11497

2. Controlled length-dependent interaction of Majorana modes in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov chains
Authors: L. Schneider, P. Beck, J. Neuhaus-Steinmetz, T. Posske, J. Wiebe, and R. Wiesendanger
arXiv:2104.11503

Recommended with a commentary by Anton Akhmerov, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
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Discovery of unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV₃Sb₅
Authors: Yu-Xiao Jiang, Jia-Xin Yin, M. Michael Denner, Nana Shumiya, Brenden R. Ortiz, Gang Xu, Zurab Guguchia, Junyi He, Md Shafayat Hossain, Xiaoxiong Liu, Jacob Ruff, Linus Kautzsch, Songtian S. Zhang, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski, Qi Zhang, Tyler A. Cochran, Daniel Multer, Maksim Litskevich, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P. Yang, Ziqiang Wang, Ronny Thomale, Titus Neupert, Stephen D. Wilson, and M. Zahid Hasan
arXiv:2012.15709

Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado Boulder
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Rigidity percolation uncovers a structural basis for embryonic tissue phase transitions
Authors: Nicoletta I. Petridou, Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, and Edouard Hannezo
Cell, 184(7):1914–1928 (2021); DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.017

Recommended with a commentary by Sumit Sinha and D. Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin
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1. Two-dimensional superconductivity and anisotropic transport at KTaO₃ (111) interfaces
Authors: Changjiang Liu, Xi Yan, Dafei Jin, Yang Ma, Haw-Wen Hsiao, Yulin Lin, Terence M. Bretz-Sullivan, Xianjing Zhou, John Pearson, Brandon Fisher, J. Samuel Jiang, Wei Han, Jian-Min Zuo, Jianguo Wen, Dillon D. Fong, Jirong Sun, Hua Zhou, and Anand Bhattacharya
Science 371, 716 (2021); DOI: 10.1126/science.aba5511
arXiv:2004.07416

2. Two-Dimensional Superconductivity at the LaAlO₃/KTaO₃(110) Heterointerface
Authors: Zheng Chen, Zhongran Liu, Yanqiu Sun, Xiaoxin Chen, Yuan Liu, Hui Zhang, Hekang Li, Meng Zhang, Siyuan Hong, Tianshuang Ren, Chao Zhang, He Tian, Yi Zhou, Jirong Sun, and Yanwu Xie
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 026802 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.026802
arXiv:2011.08526

3. Superconductor-Metal Quantum Transition at the EuO/KTaO₃ Interface
Authors: Yang Ma, Jiasen Niu, Wenyu Xing, Yunyan Yao, Ranran Cai, Jirong Sun, X. C. Xie, Xi Lin, and Wei Han
Chin. Phys. Lett. 37, 117401 (2020); DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/37/11/117401
arXiv:2010.12204

Recommended with a commentary by Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
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Harness the hubris: useful things physicists could do in biology
Authors: V. Adrian Parsegian and Commentary by Robert H. Austin
Physics Today 50, 7, 23 (1997); DOI: 10.1063/1.881805
Full-text is also available at ResearchGate

Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen) and University of Oxford
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1. High-temperature topological superconductivity in twisted double layer copper oxides
Authors: Oguzhan Can, Tarun Tummuru, Ryan P. Day, Ilya Elfimov, Andrea Damascelli, and Marcel Franz
Nature Physics 17, 519-524 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01142-7
arXiv:2012.01412

2. Magic angles and current-induced topology in twisted nodal superconductors
Authors: Pavel A. Volkov, Justin H. Wilson, and J. H. Pixley
arXiv:2012.07860

Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University
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Induced superconductivity in the fractional quantum Hall edge
Authors: Önder Gül, Yuval Ronen, Si Young Lee, Hassan Shapourian, Jonathan Zauberman, Young Hee Lee, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, Amir Yacoby, and Philip Kim
arXiv:2009.07836

Recommended with a commentary by Jason Alicea, California Institute of Technology
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