Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Light-induced ferromagnetism in moiré superlattices Authors: Xi Wang, Chengxin Xiao, Heonjoon Park, Jiayi Zhu, Chong Wang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Di Xiao, Daniel R. Gamelin, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu Nature 604, 468 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04472-z Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may […]

Character of the “normal state” of the nickelate superconductors Authors: Kyuho Lee, Bai Yang Wang, Motoki Osada, Berit H. Goodge, Tiffany C. Wang, Yonghun Lee, Shannon Harvey, Woo Jin Kim, Yijun Yu, Chaitanya Murthy, Srinivas Raghu, Lena F. Kourkoutis, and Harold Y. Hwang arXiv:2203.02580; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.02580 Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, National Tsunghua […]

Physical modeling of the heritability and maintenance of epigenetic modifications Authors: Sarah H. Sandholtz, Quinn MacPherson , and Andrew J. Spakowitz PNAS 117, 20423 (2020); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920499117 Recommended with a commentary by Jens-Uwe Sommer, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden and TU Dresden |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_03

Quantum anomalous Hall effect with a permanent magnet defines a quantum resistance standard Authors: Yuma Okazaki, Takehiko Oe, Minoru Kawamura, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Shuji Nakamura, Shintaro Takada, Masataka Mogi, Kei S. Takahashi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, and Nobu-Hisa Kaneko Nature Physics 18, 25-29 (2022); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01424-8 Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts […]

Discovery of charge-4e and charge-6e superconductivity in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 Authors: Jun Ge, Pinyuan Wang, Ying Xing, Qiangwei Yin, Hechang Lei, Ziqiang Wang, and Jian Wang arXiv:2201.10352; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2201.10352 Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Berkeley – Visitor |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_03

Non-orientable order and non-Abelian response in frustrated metamaterials Authors: Xiaofei Guo, Marcelo Guzman, David Carpentier, Denis Bartolo, and Corentin Coulais arXiv:2111.13933 Recommended with a commentary by Anton Souslov, University of Bath |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_01

1. Dissipation-assisted operator evolution method for capturing hydrodynamic transport Authors: Tibor Rakovszky, C. W. von Keyserlingk, and Frank Pollmann Phys. Rev. B 105, 075131 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.075131 2. Operator backflow and the classical simulation of quantum transport Authors: C. W. von Keyserlingk, Frank Pollmann, and Tibor Rakovszky arXiv:2111.09904 Recommended with a commentary by E. Miles […]

Large N Theory of Critical Fermi Surfaces Authors: I. Esterlis, H. Guo, A. A. Patel, and S. Sachdev Phys. Rev. B 103, 235129 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235129 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_03

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, […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2021_02

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 […]

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 […]