A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression
Authors: Silviu-Marian Udrescu and Max Tegmark
Sci. Adv. 6 : eaay2631, 2020; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2631
Recommended with a commentary by Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
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1. The interplay of insulating and superconducting orders in magic-angle graphene bilayers
Authors: Petr Stepanov, Ipsita Das, Xiaobo Lu, Ali Fahimniya, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Frank H. L. Koppens, Johannes Lischner, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov
arXiv:1911.09198
2. Decoupling superconductivity and correlated insulators in twisted bilayer graphene
Authors: Yu Saito, Jingyuan Ge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Andrea F. Young
arXiv:1911.13302
3. Tuning electron correlation in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using Coulomb screening
Authors: Xiaoxue Liu, Zhi Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Oskar Vafek, and J.I.A. Li
arXiv:2003.11072
4. Nematicity and Competing Orders in Superconducting Magic-Angle Graphene
Authors: Yuan Cao, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Jeong Min Park, Fanqi Noah Yuan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Rafael M. Fernandes, Liang Fu, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
arXiv:2004.04148
Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1. Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator
Authors: Hannes Bernien, Sylvain Schwartz, Alexander Keesling, Harry Levin, Ahmed Omran, Hannes Pichler, Soonwon Choi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Manuel Endres, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić and Mikhail D. Lukin
Nature 551, 579-584 (2017); DOI: 10.1038/nature24622
arXiv:1707.04344
2. Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many body scars
Authors: C. J. Turner, A. A. Michailidis, D. A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, and Z. Papić
Nature Physics 14, 745-749 (2018); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0137-5
arXiv:1711.03528
Recommended with a commentary by Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado at Boulder
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1. Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics
Authors: G. Duclos, R. Adkins, D. Banerjee, M. S. E. Peterson, M. Varghese, I. Kolvin, A. Baskaran, R. A. Pelcovits, T. R. Powers, A. Baskaran, F. Toschi, M. F. Hagan, S. J. Streichan, V. Vitelli, D. A. Beller, and Z. Dogic
Science 367, 1120 (2020); DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz4547
2. Three-Dimensional Active Defect Loops
Authors: Jack Binysh, Žiga Kos, Simon Čopar, Miha Ravnik, and Gareth P. Alexander
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 088001 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.088001
Recommended with a commentary by Jonathan V. Selinger, Kent State University
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Time’s Arrow and the Fragility of Topological Phases
Authors: Max McGinley and Nigel R. Cooper
arXiv:2003.08120
Recommended with a commentary by Michael Zaletel, University of California, Berkeley
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1. Hydrodynamically Interrupted Droplet Growth in Scalar Active Matter
Authors: Rajesh Singh and M. E. Cates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 148005 (2019), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.148005
2. Physics of active emulsions
Authors: Christoph A Weber, David Zwicker, Frank Jülicher, and Chiu Fan Lee
Rep. Prog. Phys. 82, 064601 (2019), DOI:10.1088/1361-6633/ab052b
Recommended with a commentary by Tom McLeish, University of York
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1. Refined symmetry indicators for topological superconductors in all space groups
Authors: S. Ono, H. C. Po, and H. Watanabe
arXiv:1909.09634
2. Symmetry-based indicators for topological Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonians
Authors: M. Geier, P. W. Brouwer and L. Trifunovic
arXiv:1910.11271
Recommended with a commentary by Raquel Queiroz and Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science
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Selection-like biases emerge in population models with recurrent jackpot events
Authors: Oskar Hallatschek
Genetics 210, 1053 (2018); DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301516
Recommended with a commentary by Kirill S. Korolev, Boston University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2020_01
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1. Evidence of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions
Authors: Antonio Fornieri, Alexander M. Whiticar, F. Setiawan, Elías Portolés, Asbjørn C. C. Drachmann, Anna Keselman, Sergei Gronin, Candice Thomas, Tian Wang, Ray Kallaher, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Erez Berg, Michael J. Manfra, Ady Stern, Charles M. Marcus, and Fabrizio Nichele
Nature 569, 89-92 (2019); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1068-8
2. Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Josephson Junction
Authors: Hechen Ren, Falko Pientka, Sean Hart, Andrew T. Pierce, Michael Kosowsky, Lukas Lunczer, Raimund Schlereth, Benedikt Scharf, Ewelina M. Hankiewicz, Laurens W. Molenkamp, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Amir Yacoby
Nature 569, 93-98 (2019); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1148-9
Recommended with a commentary by Yuval Oreg, Weizmann Institute of Science
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1. Heavy non-degenerate electrons in doped strontium titanate
Authors: Clément Collignon, Phillipe Bourges, Benoît Fauqué, and Kamran Behnia
arXiv:2001.04668
2. Scalable T2 resistivity in a small single-component Fermi surface
Authors: Xiao Lin, Benoît Fauqué, and Kamran Behnia
Science 349, 945 (2015); DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa8655
Recommended with a commentary by Peter Wölfle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2020_03
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Entropic Effects in Cell Lineage Tree Packings
Authors: Jasmin Imran Alsous, Paul Villoutreix, Norbert Stoop, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, and Jörn Dunkel
Nature Physics, 14, 1016 (2018), DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0202-0
Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_01
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Carving out OPE space and precise O(2) model critical exponents
Authors: Shai M. Chester, Walter Landry, Junyu Liu, David Poland, David Simmons-Duffin, Ning Su, and Alessandro Vichi
arXiv:1912.03324
Recommended with a commentary by Slava Rychkov, IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette)
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_02
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1. Cyclotron orbit knot and tunable-field quantum Hall effect
Authors: Yi Zhang
Phys. Rev. Research 1, 022005(R) (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.022005
2. Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in Cd3As2
Authors: Cheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xiang Yuan, Shiheng Lu, Jinglei Zhang, Awadhesh Narayan, Yanwen Liu, Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Ran Liu, Eun Sang Choi, Alexey Suslov, Stefano Sanvito, Li Pi, Hai-Zhou Lu, Andrew C. Potter, and Faxian Xiu
Nature, Vol 565, pg 331 (2019); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0798-3
Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_03
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Odd elasticity
Authors: Colin Scheibner, Anton Souslov, Debarghya Banerjee, Piotr Surowka, William T. M. Irvine and Vincenzo Vitelli
arXiv:1902.07760
Recommended with a commentary by Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_01
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1. Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
Authors: M. Hepting, D. Li, C. J. Jia, H. Lu, E. Paris, Y. Tseng, X. Feng, M. Osada, E. Been, Y. Hikita, Y.-D. Chuang, Z. Hussain, K. J. Zhou, A. Nag, M. Garcia-Fernandez, M. Rossi, H. Y. Huang, D. J. Huang, Z. X. Shen, T. Schmitt, H. Y. Hwang, B. Moritz, J. Zaanen, T. P. Devereaux, and W. S. Lee
arXiv:1909.02678, to be published in Nature Materials
2. Model construction and a possibility of cuprate-like pairing in a new d9 nickelate superconductor (Nd,Sr)NiO2
Authors: H. Sakakibara, H. Usui, K. Suzuki, T. Kotani, H. Aoki, and K. Kuroki
arXiv:1909.00060
Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, Waseda University
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Odd-frequency spin-triplet instability in disordered electron liquid
Authors: Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Alexander M. Finkel’stein
arXiv:1912.04258
Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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1. Quantum chaos challenges many-body localization
Authors: J. Šuntajs, J. Bonča, T. Prosen, and L. Vidmar
arXiv:1905.06345
2. Distinguishing localization from chaos: challenges in finite-size systems
Authors: D. A. Abanin, J. H. Bardarson, G. De Tomasi, S. Gopalakrishnan, V. Khemani, S. A. Parameswaran, F. Pollmann, A. C. Potter, M. Serbyn, and R. Vasseur
arXiv:1911.04501
3. Can we study the many-body localisation transition?
Authors: Rajat K. Panda, Antonello Scardicchio, Maximilian Schulz, Scott R. Taylor, and Marko Žnidarič
arXiv:1911.07882
Recommended with a commentary by Ehud Altman, UC Berkeley
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2019_01
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1. Umbilic Lines in Orientational Order
Authors: Thomas Machon and Gareth P. Alexander
Phys. Rev. X 6, 011033 (2016); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.011033
2. Interpretation of saddle-splay and the Oseen-Frank free energy in liquid crystals
Author: Jonathan V. Selinger
Liquid Cryst. Rev. 6, 129-142 (2019); arXiv:1901.06306
3. Uniform distortions and generalized elasticity of liquid crystals
Author: Epifanio G. Virga
Phys. Rev. E 100, 052701 (2019); arXiv:1908.09872
Recommended with a commentary by Gregory M. Grason, UMass Amherst
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2019_02
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Correlated rigidity percolation and colloidal gels
Authors: Shang Zhang, Leyou Zhang, Mehdi Bouzid, D. Zeb Rocklin, Emanuela Del Gado, and Xiaoming Mao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 33 (2019)
Recommended with a commentary by Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_01
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Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Authors: Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, … (73 more authors) … Hartmut Neven, and John Martinis
Nature 574, 505–510 (2019)
Recommended with a commentary by David DiVincenzo, Forschungszentrum Jülich
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_02
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