Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

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 […]

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. […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2020_03

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

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) |View Commentary (pdf)| […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2020_01

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. […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_May_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_May_2020_02

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, […]

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. […]

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: […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2020_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2020_03

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 […]

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 |View Commentary […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2020_01

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 […]

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 |View […]

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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_01

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) |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_02

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 […]