A monthly correspondence of exciting material in the field of Condensed Matter Physics
1) Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma Authors: G. Policastro, D. T. Son and A. O. Starinets Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001), arXiv:hep-th/0104066 2) Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics Authors: P. Kovtun, D.T. Son, A. O. Starinets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111601 (2005), arXiv:hep-th/0405231. 3) Theory […]
Authors: Maxime Clusel, Eric I. Corwin, Alexander O. N. Siemens and Jasna Brujic´ Nature, 460, 611-615 (2009) Recommended with a Commentary by Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University, USA | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_Sept09_03
1. Emergent quantum criticality, Fermi surfaces, and AdS2. Authors: Thomas Faulkner, Hong Liu, John McGreevy, David Vegh arXiv:0907.2694; arXiv:0903.2477 2. Fermions and the AdS/CFT correspondence: quantum phase transitions and the emergent Fermi-liquid. Authors: Mihailo Cubrovic, Jan Zaanen, Koenraad Schalm. arXiv:0904.1993 Recommended with a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers, Andrew Cohen, Boston University and Chandra Varma, […]
Authors: M. Neupane, P. Richard, Z.-H. Pan, Y. Xu, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, X. Dai, Z.Fang, Z. Wang, and H. Ding arXiv:0808.0346 Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo | View Commentary | JCCM_August09_02
Spatial Regulators for Bacterial Cell Division Self-Organize into Surface Waves in Vitro Science 320 789-792 (2008) Authors: Martin Loose, Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, Jonas Ries, Karsten Kruse and Petra Schwille Recommended with a commentary by Martin Howard, The John Innes Centre, UKÂ | View Commentary | JCCM_August09_03
Authors: Peter Wochner, Christian Gutt, Tina Autenrieth, Thomas Demmer, Volodymyr Bugaev, Alejandro DÃaz Ortiz, Agnès Duri, Federico Zontone, Gerhard Grübel, Helmut Dosch PNAS published online before print June 29, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0905337106 Recommended, with a commentary by Sunil Sinha, University of California San Diego. View Commentary | JCCM_July09_01
1) Simulation of interacting fermions with entanglement renormalization Authors: P. Corboz, G. Evenbly, F. Verstraete, and G. Vidal arXiv:0904.415 2) Fermionic Projected Entangled Pair States Authors: C.V. Kraus, N. Schuch, F. Verstraete, J.I. Cirac arXiv:0904.4667 3) Fermionic multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz Authors: P. Corboz and G. Vidal arXiv:0907.3184 Recommended with a Commentary by Matthias Troyer, […]
Theory of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals Authors: Lena M. Lopatina and Jonathan V. Selinger http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3270, Physical Review Letters 102, 197802 (2009) Recommended with a Commentary by Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana | View Commentary | JCCM_July09_03
(1) Energetics of a strongly correlated Fermi gas, Authors: Shina Tan arXiv:0505200, Annals of Physics 323, 2952-2970 (2008) (2) Large Momentum part of fermions with large scattering length Authors: Shina Tan arXiv:0508320, Annals of Physics 323, 2971-2986 (2008) (3) Exact Relations for a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas from the Operator Product Expansion Authors: Eric Braaten […]
1) Evolution of the Kondo state of Y bRh2Si2 probed by high field ESR Authors: U. Schaufuß, V. Kataev, A. A. Zvyagin, B. Büchner, J. Sichelschmidt, J. Wykho , C. Krellner, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich. arXiv.org:0804.4105v2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076405 (2009) 2) Electron spin resonance in Kondo systems Authors: Elihu Abrahams and Peter Wölfle […]
1. The zero-energy state in graphene in a high magnetic field Authors: Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, N. P. Ong http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0708.1959, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206801 (2008) 2. Divergent resistance at the Dirac point in graphene: Evidence for a transition in a high magnetic field Authors: Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, N. P. Ong http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0808.0906, […]
“Measurement of lling factor 5/2 quasiparticle interference with observation of charge e/4 and e/2 period oscillations” Authors: R. L. Willett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West arXiv:0807.0221; PNAS online doi.10.1073 Recommended with a commentary by Steve Kivelson (Stanford) and Chetan Nayak (Microsoft Station Q and UCSB) |Â View Commentary | JCCM_May09_02
Authors: Ambarish Ghosh and Peer Fischer Nano Lett., Article ASAP, May 4, 2009; DOI: 10.1021/nl900186w Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University | View Commentary | JCCM_May09_03
Three-dimensional visualization of a human chromosome using coherent x-ray diffraction Authors: Yoshinori Nishino, Yukio Takahashi, Naoko Imamoto, Tetsuya Ishikawa and Kazuhiro Maeshima Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 018101 (2009) Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, and Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven […]
Authors: M. Skarabot, M. Ravnik, S. Zumer, U. Tkalec, I. Poberaj, D. Babic, and I. Musevic Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008) 061706. Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania |Â View Commentary | JCCM_April09_03
Authors: B. Hunt, E. Pratt, V. Gadagkar, M. Yamashita, A. V. Balatsky, and J.C. Davis arXiv:0904.4914v1 | Science 324, 632 (1 May 2009) Recommended with a commentary by Tony Leggett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |View Commentary | JCCM_April09_03
Broadband Ground-Plane Cloak Authors: R. Liu, C. Ji, J. J. Mock, J. Y. Chin, T. J. Cui, and D. R. Smith. Science 16 January 2009 323: 366-369 Recommended with a Commentary by Stephen Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_March09_01
Authors: J. D. Koralek, C. Weber, J. Orenstein, A. Bernevig, S. Zhang, S. Mack, and D. Awschalom. http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4709v2 . To appear in Nature, April 2, 2009. Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) | JCCM_March09_02
1. Direct measurement of critical Casimir forces Authors: C. Hertlein, L. Helden, A. Gambassi, S. Dietrich, and C. Bechinger, Nature 451, 172 (2008) 2. Critical Casimir Forces in Colloidal Suspensions on Chemically Patterned Surfaces Authors: Florin Soyka, Olga Zvyagolskaya, Christopher Hertlein, Laurent Helden, and Clemens Bechinger, arXiv:0810.1866 Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 208301 (2008) Recommended with […]
1. Modeling the selective partitioning of cations into negatively charged nanopores water Authors: L. Yang, S. Garde J. Chem. Phys. 126, 084706 (2007) 2. Anomalous Increase in Carbon Capacitance at Pore Sizes Less Than 1 Nanometer Authors: J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, C. Portet, P. Simon, P. L. Taberna Science, 313, 1760 (2006) 3. […]