Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Large N Theory of Critical Fermi Surfaces Authors: I. Esterlis, H. Guo, A. A. Patel, and S. Sachdev Phys. Rev. B 103, 235129 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.235129 Recommended with a commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2022_03

1. Metal pad instabilities in liquid metal batteries Authors: Oleg Zikanov Phys. Rev. E 92, 063021 (2015); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063021 2. Fluid Mechanics of Liquid Metal Batteries Authors: Douglas H. Kelley and Tom Weier Appl. Mech. Rev. 70(2): 020801 (2018); DOI: 10.1115/1.4038699 Recommended with a commentary by Brian Skinner, Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

Crazing Reveals an Entanglement Network in Glassy Ring Polymers Authors: Jiuling Wang and Ting Ge Macromolecules, 54, 16, 7500–7511, (2021); DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01080 Recommended with a commentary by Jan Smrek, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_03

Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion Authors: David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Kritsana Srakaew, Simon Hollerith, Jun Rui, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Norman Y. Yao, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher arXiv:2107.00038 Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

1. Quantum-critical continuum in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Authors: Alexandre Jaoui, Ipsita Das, Giorgio Di Battista, Jaime Díez-Mérida, Xiaobo Lu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Leonid Levitov, and Dmitri K. Efetov arXiv:2108.07753 2. Incoherent transport across the strange metal regime of highly overdoped cuprates Authors: J. Ayres, M. Berben, M. Čulo, Y.-T. Hsu, E. […]

1. Oscillations of the thermal conductivity in the spin-liquid state of α-RuCl3 Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, and N. P. Ong Nature Physics 17, 915–919 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01243-x 2. The planar thermal Hall conductivity in α-RuCl3 Authors: Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, […]

1. Active topological glass Authors: Jan Smrek, Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, and Kurt Kremer Nature Communications, 11: 26, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13696-z 2. Emergence of active topological glass through directed chain dynamics and nonequilibrium phase separation Authors: Iurii Chubak, Christos N. Likos, Kurt Kremer, and Jan Smrek Physical Review Research, 2: 043249, 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043249 […]

1. Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor Authors: Google Quantum AI and collaborators arXiv:2107.13571 2. Observation of a many-body-localized discrete time crystal with a programmable spin-based quantum simulator Authors: J. Randall, C. E. Bradley, F. V. van der Gronden, A. Galicia, M. H. Abobeih, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, F. Machado, N. […]

Odd Diffusivity of Chiral Random Motion Authors: Cory Hargus, Jeffrey M. Epstein, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178001 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.178001 arXiv:2103.09958 Recommended with a commentary by Alexander Y. Grosberg, New York University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_03

1. Millisecond coherence in a superconducting qubit Authors: Aaron Somoroff, Quentin Ficheux, Raymond A. Mencia, Haonan Xiong, Roman V. Kuzmin, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan arXiv:2103.08578 2. New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds Authors: Alexander P. M. Place, Lila V. H. Rodgers, Pranav Mundada, Basil M. Smitham, Mattias Fitzpatrick, […]

Gut bacterial aggregates as living gels Authors: Brandon H. Schlomann, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy eLife 2021;10:e71105; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71105 Recommended with a commentary by Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Purdue University and Santa Fe Institute |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_September_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_September_2021_02

1. Quantum criticality in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides Authors: Augusto Ghiotto, En-Min Shih, Giancarlo S. S. G. Pereira, Daniel A. Rhodes, Bumho Kim, Jiawei Zang, Andrew J. Millis, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Lei Wang, Cory R. Dean, and Abhay N. Pasupathy Nature 597, 345–349 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03815-6 arXiv:2103.09796 2. Continuous Mott transition […]

1. Exact bosonization in two spatial dimensions and a new class of lattice gauge theories Authors: Yu-An Chen, Anton Kapustin, and Djordje Radicevic Annals of Physics 393, 234 (2018); DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2018.03.024 arXiv:1711.00515 2. Constraints of kinematic bosonization in two and higher dimensions Authors: Arkadiusz Bochniak, Blazej Ruba, Jacek Wosiek, and Adam Wyrzykowski Phys. Rev. D […]

1. Generalized hydrodynamics in strongly interacting 1D Bose gases Authors: Neel Malvania, Yicheng Zhang, Yuan Le, Jerome Dubail, Marcos Rigol, and David S. Weiss arXiv:2009.06651 2. Generalized HydroDynamics on an Atom Chip Authors: Max Schemmer, Isabelle Bouchoule, Benjamin Doyon, and Jerome Dubail Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090601 (2019); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.090601 arXiv:1810.07170 Recommended with a commentary […]

Global constraints within the developmental program of the Drosophila wing Authors: Vasyl Alba, James E. Carthew, Richard W. Carthew, and Madhav Mani eLife 10, e66750 (2021); DOI: 10.7554/eLife.66750 Recommended with a commentary by David K. Lubensky, University of Michigan |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_July_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_July_2021_02

A strange metal in a bosonic system Authors: Chao Yang, Haiwen Liu, Yi Liu, Jiandong Wang, Sishuang Wang, Yang Wang, Qianmei He, Yue Tang, Jian Wang, X.C. Xie, James M. Valles Jr., Jie Xiong, and Yanrong Li arXiv:2105.02654 Recommended with a commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Riverside |View […]

Discovery of unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV3Sb5 Authors: Yu-Xiao Jiang, Jia-Xin Yin, M. Michael Denner, Nana Shumiya, Brenden R. Ortiz, Gang Xu, Zurab Guguchia, Junyi He, Md Shafayat Hossain, Xiaoxiong Liu, Jacob Ruff, Linus Kautzsch, Songtian S. Zhang, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski, Qi Zhang, Tyler A. Cochran, Daniel Multer, Maksim Litskevich, Zi-Jia […]

1. Two-dimensional superconductivity and anisotropic transport at KTaO3 (111) interfaces Authors: Changjiang Liu, Xi Yan, Dafei Jin, Yang Ma, Haw-Wen Hsiao, Yulin Lin, Terence M. Bretz-Sullivan, Xianjing Zhou, John Pearson, Brandon Fisher, J. Samuel Jiang, Wei Han, Jian-Min Zuo, Jianguo Wen, Dillon D. Fong, Jirong Sun, Hua Zhou, and Anand Bhattacharya Science 371, 716 (2021); […]

Harness the hubris: useful things physicists could do in biology Authors: V. Adrian Parsegian and Commentary by Robert H. Austin Physics Today 50, 7, 23 (1997); DOI: 10.1063/1.881805 Full-text is also available at ResearchGate Recommended with a commentary by Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen) and University of Oxford |View Commentary […]

1. High-temperature topological superconductivity in twisted double layer copper oxides Authors: Oguzhan Can, Tarun Tummuru, Ryan P. Day, Ilya Elfimov, Andrea Damascelli, and Marcel Franz Nature Physics 17, 519-524 (2021); DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01142-7 arXiv:2012.01412 2. Magic angles and current-induced topology in twisted nodal superconductors Authors: Pavel A. Volkov, Justin H. Wilson, and J. H. Pixley arXiv:2012.07860 […]