A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
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 […]
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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2019_01
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 […]
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 […]
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 |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_01
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 […]
1. Design principles for nonequilibrium self assembly Authors: Michael Nguyen and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 113, 14231-14236(2016); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1609983113 2. Dissipation induced transitions in elastic strings Authors: Michael Nguyen and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan arXiv:1803.04368 Recommended with a commentary by Michael F. Hagan, Brandeis University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_03https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2019_03
1. Melting of the Vortex Lattice through Intermediate Hexatic Fluid in an a-MoGe Thin Film Authors: I. Roy, S. Dutta, A. N. R. Choudhury, S. Basistha, I. Maccari, S. Mandal, J. Jesudasan, V. Bagwe, C. Castellani, L. Benfatto, and P. Raychaudhuri Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 047001 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047001 2. Evidence of Quantum Vortex Fluid […]
1. Delayed instabilities in viscoelastic solids through a metric description Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati arXiv:1711.09491 2. The metric description of viscoelasticity and instabilities in viscoelastic solids Authors: E. Urbach and E. Efrati arXiv:1806.01237 Recommended with a commentary by Sam Dillavou and Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_02
Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on SrTiO3 Authors: Louis Veyrat, Corentin Déprez, Alexis Coissard, Xiaoxi Li, Frédéric Gay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Han, Benjamin A. Piot, Hermann Sellier, and Benjamin Sacépé arXiv:1907.02299 Recommended with a commentary by Leonid I. Glazman, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2019_03
1. Automated tuning of inter-dot tunnel couplings in quantum dot arrays Authors: C. J. van Diepen, P. T. Eendebak, B. T. Buijtendorp, U. Mukhopadhyay, T. Fujita, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, and L. M. K. Vandersypen Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 033101 (2018), DOI:10.1063/1.5031034 (code: https://github.com/QuTech-Delft/qtt) 2. Efficiently measuring a quantum device using machine learning Authors: D.T. […]
1. Signature of Dispersing 1D Majorana Channels in an Iron-based Superconductor Authors: Zhenyu Wang, Jorge Olivares Rodriguez, Martin Graham, G. D. Gu, Taylor Hughes, Dirk K. Morr, and Vidya Madhavan arXiv:1903.00515 2. Evidence for Helical Hinge Zero Modes in an Fe-Based Superconductor Authors: Mason J. Gray, Josef Freudenstein, Shu Yang F. Zhao, Ryan O’Connor, Samuel […]
Giant thermal Hall conductivity from neutral excitations in the pseudogap phase of cuprates Authors: Gaël Grissonnanche, Anaëlle Legros, Sven Badoux, Etienne Lefrançois, Victor Zatko, Maude Lizaire, Francis Laliberté, Adrien Gourgout, Jianshi Zhou, Sunseng Pyon, Tomohiro Takayama, Hidenori Takagi, Shimpei Ono, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, and Louis Taillefer arXiv: 1901.03104 Recommended with a commentary by Dung-Hai Lee, U.C. […]
Interacting multi-channel topological boundary modes in a quantum Hall valley system Authors: Mallika T. Randeria, Kartiek Agarwal, Benjamin E. Feldman, Hao Ding, Huiwen Ji, R. J. Cava, S. L. Sondhi, Siddharth A. Parameswaran, and Ali Yazdani Nature 566, 363-367 (2019) Recommended with a commentary by Liang Fu, MIT |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_01
1. Self-Verifying Variational Quantum Simulation of the Lattice Schwinger Model Authors: Christian Kokail, Christine Maier, Rick van Bijnen, Tiff Brydges, Manoj K. Joshi, Petar Jurcevic, Christine A. Muschik, Pietro Silvi, Rainer Blatt, Christian F. Roos, and Peter Zoller arXiv:1810.03421 2. Probing quantum critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator Authors: Alexander Keesling, Ahmed Omran, Harry […]
Non-equilibrium systems have steady-state distributions and non-steady dynamics Author: Tanniemola B. Liverpool arXiv:1810.10980 Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen) and University of Oxford |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2019_03
Quantum coherence across bosonic superconductor-anomalous metal-insulator transitions Authors: Chao Yang, Yi Liu, Yang Wang, Liu Feng, Qianmei He, Jian Sun, Yue Tang, Chunchun Wu, Jie Xiong, Wanli Zhang, Xi Lin, Hong Yao, Haiwen Liu, Gustavo Fernandes, Jimmy Xu, James M. Valles Jr., Jian Wang, and Yanrong Li arXiv:1901.07706 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. […]
Observation of a chiral spin liquid phase of the Hubbard model on the triangular lattice: a density matrix renormalization group study Authors: Aaron Szasz, Johannes Motruk, Michael P. Zaletel, Joel E. Moore arXiv:1808.00463 Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_02
Chromatin remodelers couple inchworm motion with twist-defect formation to slide nucleosomal DNA Authors: Giovanni B. Brandani, Shoji Takada PlOS Comput Biol 14, e1006512 (2018) Recommended with a commentary by Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2019_03
1. Universality of jamming of nonspherical particles Authors: C. Brito, H. Ikeda, P. Urbani, M. Wyart, F. Zamponi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 116, 11736-11741 (2018) 2. Translational and orientational glass transitions in the large-dimensional limit : a generalized replicated liquid theory and an application to patchy colloids Authors: H. […]