Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Authors: Tsuda et al http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409219 Phys. Rev B in press. Authors: Eguchi et al http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0504576 Recommended and Commentary by Sadamichi Maekawa, Tohoku University, Sendai.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Aug05_03)

Authors: M. Wyart, S. Nagel, T. Witten http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409687 Recommended and a Commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, ENS, Paris.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Mar05_01)

Authors: K. McElroy, D.-H. Lee, J. E. Hoffman, K. M Lang, E. W. Hudson, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. Lee, J.C. Davis http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0404005 Nature 428, 542 (2004) Recommended and Commentary by Joe Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jul04_02)

Authors: F.Sciortino, S.Mossa, E.Zoccarelli and P.Tartaglia http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0312161 Recommended and a Commentary by Frenkel, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam.  | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Jun04_03)

Authors: Julien Gabelli, Laure-Helene Reydellet, Gwendal Feve,  Jean-Marc Berroir, Bernard Placais, Patrice Roche, Christian Glattli. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0403584 Recommended and a Commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Lorentz Institute, Leiden University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Apr04_01)

1. Formation Mechanism and Low-Temperature Instability of Exciton Rings Authors: L.V.Butov et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308117 Phys.Rev. Letters, 92, 117404 (2004) 2. Charge Separation of Dense Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gases: Mechanism for Exciton Ring Pattern Formation Authors: R.Rapaport et al. http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308150 Phys. Rev. Letters, 92, 117405, (2004) Recommended and a Commentary by: Peter Littlewood, University of Cambridge and […]

Authors: H.C. Liu, C. Y. Song, Z. R. Wasilewski, et al. (Phys. Rev Lett. 90, 077402 (2003) Recommended and a Commentary by: Claire Gmachl, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Dec03_01)

Authors: Richard L. Weaver and Oleg I. Lobkis Phys. Rev. Letters, 87, 134301 (2001) Recommended and a Commentary by: Al Migliori, Los alamos National Laboratory | View Commentary (pdf) | (JCCM_Nov03_02)

Collective synchrony in confluent, pulsatile epithelia Authors: Wenhui Tang, Mehrana R. Nejad, Adrian F. Pegoraro, L. Mahadevan, and Ming Guo arXiv:2507.16772, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.16772 Recommended with a commentary by Étienne Fodor and Tirthankar Banerjee , University of Luxembourg |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2026_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2026_01

1. Perfect Coulomb drag in a dipolar excitonic insulator Authors: Phuong X. Nguyen, Liguo Ma, Raghav Chaturvedi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak Science 388, 274–278 (2025), DOI: 10.1126/science.adl1829 2. Perfect Coulomb drag and exciton transport in an excitonic insulator Authors: Ruishi Qi, Andrew Y. Joe, Zuocheng Zhang, Jingxu Xie, Qixin […]

1. Collapse of a single polymer chain: Effect of chain stiffness and attraction range Authors: Yanyan Zhu, Haim Diamant, and David Andelman arXiv:2601.09908, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.09908 2. Long ssRNA undergoes continuous compaction in the presence of polyvalent cations Authors: Ana Luisa Duran-Meza, Liya Oser, Richard Sportsman, Martin Phillips, Charles M. Knobler, and William M. Gelbart Biophysical […]

Finite-Temperature Quantum Topological Order in Three Dimensions Authors: Shu-Tong Zhou, Meng Cheng, Tibor Rakovszky, Curt von Keyserlingk, and Tyler D. Ellison Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 040402 (2025), DOI: 10.1103/n9sq-8cxw Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath , Harvard University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2026_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2026_03

1. Frequency ratio of the 229mTh nuclear isomeric transition and the 87Sr atomic clock Authors: Chuankun Zhang, Tian Ooi, Jacob S. Higgins, Jack F. Doyle, Lars von der Wense, Kjeld Beeks, Adrian Leitner, Georgy A. Kazakov, Peng Li, Peter G. Thirolf, Thorsten Schumm, and Jun Ye Nature 633, pages 63–70 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07839-6 2. Temperature […]

1. Electrical switching of a p-wave magnet Authors: Qian Song, Srdjan Stavrić, Paolo Barone, Andrea Droghetti, Daniil S. Antonenko, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Connor A. Occhialini, Batyr Ilyas, Emre Ergeçen, Nuh Gedik, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rafael M. Fernandes, Silvia Picozzi, and Riccardo Comin Nature 642, 64–70 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09034-7 2. A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate […]

Limits on the computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes Authors: Carlos Floyd, Aaron R. Dinner, Arvind Murugan, and Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan Nat. Comm 16, no. 1 (2025): 7184, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61873-0 Recommended with a commentary by Krishna Shrinivas , Northwestern University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_December_2025_03

Observation of the quantum equivalence principle for matter-waves Authors: Or Dobkowski, Barak Trok, Peter Skakunenko, Yonathan Japha, David Groswasser, Maxim Efremov, Chiara Marletto, Ivette Fuentes, Roger Penrose, Vlatko Vedral, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ron Folman arXiv.2502.14535, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.14535 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker , Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may […]

Many-body interference in kagome crystals Authors: C. Guo, K. Wang, L. Zhang, C. Putzke, D. Chen, M. R. van Delft, S. Wiedmann, F. F. Balakirev, R. D. McDonald, M. Gutierrez-Amigo, M. Alkorta, I. Errea, M. G. Vergniory, T. Oka, R. Moessner, M. H. Fischer, T. Neupert, C. Felser, and P. J. W. Moll Nature 647, […]

Theory of condensate size control by molecular charge asymmetry Authors: Chengjie Luo, Nathaniel Hess, Dilimulati Aierken, Yicheng Qiang, Jerelle A. Joseph, and David Zwicker ACS Macro Letters 14(10), 1484-1491 (2025), DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5c00342 Recommended with a commentary by Yaojun Zhang , Johns Hopkins University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_November_2025_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_November_2025_03

1. Cooper-pair density modulation state in an iron-based superconductor Authors: Lingyuan Kong, Michal Papaj, Hyunjin Kim, Yiran Zhang, Eli Baum, Hui Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Genda Gu, Patrick A. Lee, and Stevan Nadj-Perge Nature 640, 55 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08703-x 2. Sublattice Dichotomy in Monolayer FeSe Superconductor Authors: Cui Ding, Zhipeng Xu, Xiaotong Jiao, Qiyin […]

1. Self-consistent tensor network method for correlated super-Moiré matter beyond one billion sites Authors: Yitao Sun, Marcel Niedermeier, Tiago V. C. Antão, Adolfo O. Fumega, and Jose L. Lado arXiv:2503.04373, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.04373 2. Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on multiple different scales using the quantics tensor train representation Authors: Marcel Niedermeier, Adrien Moulinas, Thibaud Louvet, Jose […]