Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

1. Metal pad instabilities in liquid metal batteries
Authors: Oleg Zikanov
Phys. Rev. E 92, 063021 (2015); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063021

2. Fluid Mechanics of Liquid Metal Batteries
Authors: Douglas H. Kelley and Tom Weier
Appl. Mech. Rev. 70(2): 020801 (2018); DOI: 10.1115/1.4038699

Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner, Ohio State University
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Crazing Reveals an Entanglement Network in Glassy Ring Polymers
Authors: Jiuling Wang and Ting Ge
Macromolecules, 54, 16, 7500–7511, (2021); DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01080

Recommended with a commentary by Jan Smrek, University of Vienna
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Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion
Authors: David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Kritsana Srakaew, Simon Hollerith, Jun Rui, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Norman Y. Yao, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher
arXiv:2107.00038

Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University
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1. Quantum-critical continuum in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Authors: Alexandre Jaoui, Ipsita Das, Giorgio Di Battista, Jaime Díez-Mérida, Xiaobo Lu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov
arXiv:2108.07753

2. Incoherent transport across the strange metal regime of highly overdoped cuprates
Authors: J. Ayres, M. Berben, M. Čulo, Y.-T. Hsu, E. van Heumen, Y. Huang, J. Zaanen, T. Kondo, T. Takeuchi, J. R. Cooper, C. Putzke, S. Friedemann, A. Carrington, and N. E. Hussey
Nature, vol. 595, 661-666 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03622-z
arXiv:2012.01208

3. Linear-in temperature resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate
Authors: Gaël Grissonnanche, Yawen Fang, Anaëlle Legros, Simon Verret, Francis Laliberté, Clément Collignon, Jianshi Zhou, David Graf, Paul A. Goddard, Louis Taillefer, and B. J. Ramshaw
Nature 595, 667-672 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03697-8
arXiv:2011.13054

Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Isospin magnetism and spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene
Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Yu Saito, Liam Cohen, William Huynh, Caitlin L. Patterson, Fangyuan Yang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young
arXiv:2110.11317

2. Superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene
Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Tian Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young
Nature 598, 434–438 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03926-0
arXiv:2106.07640

3. Cascade of isospin phase transitions in Bernal bilayer graphene at zero magnetic field
Authors: Sergio C. de la Barrera, Samuel Aronson, Zhiren Zheng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Qiong Ma, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Raymond Ashoori
arXiv:2110.13907

4. Quantum cascade of new correlated phases in trigonally warped bilayer graphene
Authors: Anna M. Seiler, Fabian R. Geisenhof, Felix Winterer, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tianyi Xu, Fan Zhang, and R. Thomas Weitz
arXiv:2111.06413

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanoscience, Madrid and Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian
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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

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT
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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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