Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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Observation of small Fermi pockets protected by clean CuO₂ sheets of a high-T_c superconductor
Authors: So Kunisada, Shunsuke Isono, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shiro Sakai, Cédric Bareille, Shunsuke Sakuragi, Ryo Noguchi, Kifu Kurokawa, Kenta Kuroda, Yukiaki Ishida, Shintaro Adachi, Ryotaro Sekine, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Shik Shin, Takami Tohyama, Kazuyasu Tokiwa, and Takeshi Kondo
Science 369 833-838 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/science.aay7311

Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley
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1. Exceptional E₈ symmetry in spin dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet BaCo₂V₂O₈
Authors: Haiyuan Zou, Y. Cui, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. Yang, G. Xu, A. Okutani, M. Hagiwara, M. Matsuda, G. Wang, G. Mussardo, K. Hódsági, M. Kormos, Z. Z. He, S. Kimura, Rong Yu, Weiqiang Yu, Jie Ma, and Jianda Wu
arXiv:2005.13302

2. Observation of E₈ particles in an Ising chain antiferromagnet
Authors: Zhao Zhang, Kirill Amelin, Xiao Wang, Haiyuan Zou, Jiahao Yang, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm, Tusharkanti Dey, Agustinus Agung Nugroho, Thomas Lorenz, Jianda Wu, and Zhe Wang
Phys. Rev. B 101, 220411(R) (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.220411
arXiv:2005.13772

3. Experimental observation of quantum many-body excitations of E₈ symmetry in the Ising chain ferromagnet CoNb₂O₆
Authors: Kirill Amelin, Johannes Engelmayer, Johan Viirok, Urmas Nagel, Toomas Rõõm, Thomas Lorenz, and Zhe Wang
Phys. Rev. B 102, 104431 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.104431
arXiv:2006.12956

Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa, University of Tokyo
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1. Nature of symmetry breaking at the excitonic insulator transition: Ta₂NiSe₅
Authors: G. Mazza, M. Rösner, L. Windgätter, S. Latini, H. Hübener, A. J. Millis, A. Rubio, and A. Georges
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197601 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.197601

2. Nonlinear spectroscopy of collective modes in excitonic insulator
Authors: D. Golež, Z. Sun, Y. Murakami, A. Georges, and A. J. Millis
arXiv:2007.09749

Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, Waseda University
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1. Electron attraction mediated by Coulomb repulsion
Authors: A. Hamo, A. Benyamini, I. Shapir, I. Khivrich, J. Waissman, K. Kaasbjerg, Y. Oreg, F. von Oppen, and S. Ilani
Nature 535, 395 (2016); DOI: 10.1038/nature18639

2. Charge Transfer Excitations, Pair Density Waves, and Superconductivity in Moire Materials
Authors: Kevin Slagle and Liang Fu
arXiv:2003:13690

3. Correlated double-electron additions at the edge of a two-dimensional electronic system
Authors: Ahmet Demir, Neal Staley, Samuel Aronson, Spencer Tomarken, Ken West, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, and Raymond Ashoori
arXiv:2001:09913

Recommended with a commentary by Patrick A. Lee, MIT
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Diffusio-osmosis and wetting on solid surfaces: a unified description based on a virtual work principle
Authors: Nigel Clarke, Nigel Gibbions and Didier R. Long
Soft Matter 16, 3485 (2020); DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02118C

Recommended with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
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Fractional statistics in anyon collisions
Authors: H. Bartolomei, M. Kumar, R. Bisognin, A. Marguerite, J.-M. Berroir, E. Bocquillon, B. Plaçais, A. Cavanna, Q. Dong, U. Gennser, Y. Jin, and G. Fève
Science 368, 173–177 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz5601

Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University
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Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics at the ν = 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state
Authors: James Nakamura, Shuang Liang, Geoffrey C. Gardner, and Michael J. Manfra
arXiv:2006.14115

Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson (Stanford University) and Charles M. Marcus (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and Microsoft Quantum Lab–Copenhagen)
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Observation of a marginal Fermi glass using THz 2D coherent spectroscopy
Authors: Fahad Mahmood, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Rahul Nandkishore, and N.P. Armitage
arXiv:2005.10822

Recommended with a commentary by S.A. Parameswaran, University of Oxford
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1. Backflow Transformations via Neural Networks for Quantum Many-Body Wave-Functions
Authors: D. Luo and B. K. Clark
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 226401 (2019); DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.226401
arXiv:1807.10770

2. Ab-Initio Solution of the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks
Authors: D. Pfau, J. S. Spencer, A. G. de G. Matthews, and W. M. C. Foulkes
arXiv:1909.02487

3. Deep neural network solution of the electronic Schrödinger equation
Authors: J. Hermann, Z. Schätzle, and F. Noé
arXiv:1909.08423

Recommended with a commentary by Markus Holzmann, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPMMC
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