Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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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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