Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2020_02
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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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2020_02
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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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_02
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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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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2019_03
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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
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_01

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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1. Magnetic-field-induced quantized anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi₂Te₄
Authors: Yujun Deng, Yijun Yu, Meng Zhu Shi, Jing Wang, Xian Hui Chen and Yuanbo Zhang
arXiv:1904.11468

2. Quantum phase transition from axion insulator to Chern insulator in MnBi₂Te₄
Authors: Chang Liu, Yongchao Wang, Hao Li, Yang Wu, Yaoxin Li, Jiaheng Li, Ke He, Yong Xu, Jinsong Zhang, and Yayu Wang
arXiv:1905.00715

3. Quantum anomalous Hall effect driven by magnetic proximity coupling in all-telluride based heterostructure
Authors: Ryota Watanabe, Ryutaro Yoshimi, Minoru Kawamura, Masataka Mogi, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Xiuzhen Yu, Kiyomi Nakajima, Kei S Takahashi, Masashi Kawasaki, and Yoshinori Tokura
arXiv:1908.07163

Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2019_03
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Gibbs and Boltzmann Entropy in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghi
arXiv:1903.11870

Recommended with a commentary by Deepak Dhar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01
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1. Two Diverging Length Scales in the Structure of Jammed Packings
Authors: D. Hexner, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel
Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 115501 (2018)

2. Can a Large Packing be Assembled from Smaller Ones?
Authors: D. Hexner, P. Urbani, and F. Zamponi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 068003 (2019)

Recommended with a commentary by Haim Diamant, Tel Aviv University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_02
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1. The Hierarchy of Excitation Lifetimes in Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Authors: Patrick J. Ledwith, Haoyu Guo, and Leonid Levitov
arXiv:1905.03751

2. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D Electron Systems
Authors: Lev Haldar Kendrick, Patrick J. Ledwith, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov
arXiv:1810.07588

3. Fermionic Retroreflection, Hole Jets and Magnetic Steering in 2D Electron Systems
Authors: Lev Haldar Kendrick, Patrick J. Ledwith, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov
arXiv:1805.06819; Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 176805 (2018)

4. Fluidity Onset in Graphene
Authors: Denis A. Bandurin, Andrey V. Shytov, Leonid Levitov, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Alexey I. Berdyugin, Moshe Ben Shalom, Irina V. Grigorieva, Andre K. Geim, and Gregory Falkovich
arXiv:1806.03231; Nature Communications 9 4533 (2018)

Recommended with a commentary by Francisco Guinea, Imdea Nanoscience, Madrid and Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_03
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Computing spectra without solving eigenvalue problems
Authors: Douglas N. Arnold, Guy David, Marcel Filoche, David Jerison, and Svitlana Mayboroda
SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 41, B69 (2019); DOI: 10.1137/17M1156721
arXiv:1711.04888

Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Leiden University
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01
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1. Observation of a symmetry-protected topological phase of interacting bosons with Rydberg atoms
Authors: Sylvain de Léséleuc, Vincent Lienhard, Pascal Scholl, Daniel Barredo, Sebastian Weber, Nicolai Lang, Hans Peter Büchler, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys
Science 365, 775–780 (2019); DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9105
arXiv:1810.13286

2. Synthetic three-dimensional atomic structures assembled atom by atom
Authors: Daniel Barredo, Vincent Lienhard, Sylvain de Léséleuc, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys
Nature 561 79-82 (2018); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0450-2
arXiv:1712.02727

Recommended with a commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
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DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_02
https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_02