Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Observation of superconducting diode effect
Authors: Fuyuki Ando, Yuta Miyasaka, Tian Li, Jun Ishizuka, Tomonori Arakawa, Yoichi Shiota, Takahiro Moriyama, Youichi Yanase, and Teruo Ono
Nature, 584, 373 (2020); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2590-4

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Brownian flights over a circle
Authors: Alexander Vladimirov, Senya Shlosman, and Sergei Nechaev
Phys. Rev. E 102, 012124 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.012124

Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University
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Anisotropy links cell shapes to tissue flow during convergent extension
Authors: X. Wang, M. Merkel, L. B. Sutter, G. Erdemci-Tandogan, M. L. Manning, and K. E. Kasza
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117, 13541-13551 (2020); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916418117

Recommended with a commentary by John D. Treado (Yale University), Dong Wang (Yale University), Yuxuan Cheng (Yale University), Mark D. Shattuck (City College of New York), Corey S. O’Hern (Yale University)
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1. Quantum Zeno effect and the many-body entanglement transition
Authors: Y. Li, X. Chen, and M.P. A. Fisher
Phys. Rev. B 98, 205136 (2018); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.205136

2. Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Entanglement
Authors: B. Skinner, J. Ruhman, and A. Nahum
Phys. Rev. X 9, 031009 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031009

3. Unitary-projective entanglement dynamics
Authors: A. Chan, R.M. Nandkishore, M. Pretko, and G. Smith
Phys. Rev. B 99, 224307 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.224307

4. Quantum Error Correction in Scrambling Dynamics and Measurement-Induced Phase Transition
Authors: S. Choi, Y. Bao, X.-L. Qi, and E. Altman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030505 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.030505

5. Dynamical Purification Phase Transition Induced by Quantum Measurements
Authors: M.J. Gullans and D.A. Huse
Phys. Rev. X 10, 041020 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041020

6. Measurement-induced criticality in random quantum circuits
Authors: C.-M. Jian, Y.-Z. You, R. Vasseur, and A.W.W. Ludwig
Phys. Rev. B 101, 104302 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.104302

Recommended with a commentary by S. A. Parameswaran, University of Oxford
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The Topological Origin of the Peierls-Nabarro Barrier
Authors: Brook J. Hocking, Helen S. Ansell, Randall D. Kamien, and Thomas Machon
arXiv:2103.0205 (2021)

Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner, Ohio State University
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Absence of superconductivity in the pure two-dimensional Hubbard Model
Authors: Mingpu Qin, Chia-Min Chung, Hao Shi, Ettore Vitali, Claudius Hubig, Ulrich Schollwöck, Steven R. White, and Shiwei Zhang (Simons Collaboration on the Many-Electron Problem)
Phys. Rev. X 10, 031016 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031016

Recommended with a commentary by Andrey V Chubukov, University of Minnesota
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Non-Hydrodynamic Initial Conditions are Not Soon Forgotten
Authors: T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitz, and J. R. Dorfman
arXiv:2102.08447

Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Turing’s diffusive threshold in random reaction-diffusion systems
Authors: Pierre A. Haas and Raymond E. Goldstein
bioRxiv:2020.11.09.374934v1; DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.09.374934

Recommended with a commentary by Changbong Hyeon, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
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1. Magic Angle Hierarchy in Twisted Graphene Multilayers
Authors: E. Khalaf, A. J. Kruchkov, G. Tarnopolsky, and A. Vishwanath
Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.085109
arXiv:1901.10485

2. Tunable Phase Boundaries and Ultra-Strong Coupling Superconductivity in Mirror Symmetric Magic-Angle Trilayer Graphene
Authors: JM Park, Y. Cao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and P. Jarillo-Herrero
arXiv:2012.01434

3. Electric field tunable unconventional superconductivity in alternating twist magic-angle trilayer graphene
Authors: Z. Hao, A. M. Zimmerman, P. Ledwith, E. Khalaf, D. H. Najafabadi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Vishwanath, and P. Kim
arXiv:2012.02773

Recommended with a commentary by Michael Zaletel, University of California, Berkeley
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Controlling many-body dynamics with driven quantum scars in Rydberg atom arrays
Authors: Dolev Bluvstein Dolev Bluvstein, Ahmed Omran, Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Giulia Semeghini, Sepehr Ebadi, Tout T. Wang, Alexios A. Michailidis, Nishad Maskara, Wen Wei Ho, Soonwon Choi, Maksym Serbyn, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, and Mikhail D. Lukin
arXiv:2012.12276

Recommended with a commentary by Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley
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1. Signatures of bilayer Wigner crystals in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure
Authors: You Zhou, Jiho Sung, Elise Brutschea, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Giovanni Scuri, Ryan J. Gelly, Hoseok Heo, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Gergely Zaránd, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Kim, Eugene Demler, and Hongkun Park
arXiv:2010.03037

2. Observation of Wigner crystal of electrons in a monolayer semiconductor
Authors: T. Smoleński, P. E. Dolgirev, C. Kuhlenkamp, A. Popert, Y. Shimazaki, P. Back, M. Kroner, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, I. Esterlis, E. Demler, and A. Imamoğlu
arXiv:2010.03078

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
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1. Multicellular Rosettes Drive Fluid-solid Transition in Epithelial Tissues
Authors: Le Yan and Dapeng Bi
Phys. Rev. X 9, 011029 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011029

2. Bayesian inference of force dynamics during morphogenesis
Authors: Shuji Ishihara and Kaoru Sugimura
Journal of Theoretical Biology 313 (2012) 201–211; DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.08.017

Recommended with a commentary by Silke Henkes, University of Bristol
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1. Isospin Pomeranchuk effect and the entropy of collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene
Authors: Yu Saito, Fangyuan Yang, Xiaoxue Liu, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, J. I. A. Li, Erez Berg, and Andrea F. Young
arXiv:2008.10830

2. Entropic evidence for a Pomeranchuk effect in magic angle graphene
Authors: Asaf Rozen, Jeong Min Park, Uri Zondiner, Yuan Cao, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, Erez Berg, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Shahal Ilani
arXiv:2009.01836

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanoscience, and Donostia International Physics Center
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Atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to molecular Bose-Einstein condensate transition
Authors: Zhendong Zhang, Liangchao Chen, Kaixuan Yao, and Cheng Chin
arXiv:2006.15297

Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University
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Osmotic pressure between arbitrarily charged planar surfaces: A revisited approach
Authors: Ram M. Adar and David Andelman
Eur. Phys. J. E. (2018) 41: 11; DOI 10.1140/epje/i2018-11620-1

Recommended with a commentary by Didier R. Long, Laboratoire Polymères et Matériaux Avancés, UMR 5268 Solvay/CNRS
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Quantum eigenstates from classical Gibbs distributions
Authors: Pieter W. Claeys and Anatoli Polkovnikov
arXiv:2007.07264

Recommended with a commentary by Daniel Arovas, University of California, San Diego
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Discovery of segmented Fermi surface induced by Cooper pair momentum
Authors: Zhen Zhu, Michał Papaj, Xiao-Ang Nie, Hao-Ke Xu, Yi-Sheng Gu, Xu Yang, Dandan Guan, Shiyong Wang, Yaoyi Li, Canhua Liu, Jianlin Luo, Zhu-An Xu, Hao Zheng, Liang Fu, and Jin-Feng Jia
arXiv:2010.02216

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University
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1. Nonlinear flow response of soft hair beds
Authors: José Alvarado, Jean Comtet, Emmanuel de Langre, and A. E. Hosoi
Nature Physics 13, 1014-1019, (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nphys4225

2. Bending and Stretching of Soft Pores Enable Passive Control of Fluid Flows
Authors: Jean-François Louf, Jan Knoblauch, and Kaare H. Jensen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 098101 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.098101

Recommended with a commentary by Eleni Katifori, University of Pennsylvania
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Simulations of Nanoseparated Charged Surfaces Reveal Charge-Induced Water Reorientation and Nonadditivity of Hydration and Mean-Field Electrostatic Repulsion
Authors: Alexander Schlaich, Alexandre P. dos Santos, and Roland R. Netz
Langmuir 35, 551–560 (2019); DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03474

Recommended with a commentary by Albert Johner, Institut Charles Sadron Strasbourg
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1. Forces between solid surfaces in aqueous electrolyte solutions
Authors: Alexander M.Smith, Michal Borkovec, and Gregor Trefalt
Adv. Colloid. Int. Sci. 275, 102078, (2020); DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2019.102078

2. Forces between silica particles in isopropanol solutions of 1:1 electrolytes
Authors: Biljana Stojimirovi?, Marco Galli, and Gregor Trefalt
Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 023315 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023315

Recommended with a commentary by Rudolf Podgornik, University of Chinese Academy of Science, and David Andelman, Tel Aviv University
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