'Journal Articles'


Universal Critical Behavior of the Quantum Hall Plateau Transition

1. Crossover from the nonuniversal scaling regime to the universal scaling regime in quantum Hall plateau transitions
Authers: Wanli Li, J. S. Xia, C. L. Vicente, N. S. Sullivan, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfei er, and K. W. West
Phys. Rev. B 81, 033305 (2010).
2. Scaling in Plateau-to-Plateau Transition: A Direct Connection of Quantum [...]

Entropic driven self-assembly of nonamphiphilic colloidal membranes

Authors: Edward Barry and Zvonimir Dogic
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107 (2010) 10348.
Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_AUGUST2010_02

Quantum gas microscopy: in-situ imaging of ultracold atomic gases

1. In situ Observation of incompressible Mott-insulating domains in ultracold atomic gases
Authors: N. Gemelke, X. Zhang, C.-L. Hung, C. Chin
arXiv:0904.1532; Nature 460, 995 (2009)
2. Probing the Superuid-to-Mott-Insulator Transition at the Single-Atom Level
Authors: W. S. Bakr, A. Peng, M. E. Tai, R. Ma, J. Simon, J. I. Gillen, S. Folling, L. Pollet, and M. Greiner.
arXiv:1006.0754; Science 329, [...]

Experiments on quantum Hall interferometers – towards a measurement of unconventional quantum statistics

1. Role of interactions in an electronic Fabry–Perot interferometer operating in the quantum Hall effect regime.
Authors: Nissim Ofek, Aveek Bid, Moty Heiblum, Ady Stern, Vladimir Umansky, and Diana Mahalu.
PNAS March 23, 2010 vol. 107 no. 12 5276-5281
2. Distinct Signatures For Coulomb Blockade and Aharonov-Bohm Interference in Electronic Fabry-Perot Interferometers.
Authors: Yiming Zhang, D. T. McClure, E. [...]

Blue phase revival

1. Simulation of cholesteric blue phases using a Landau-de Gennes theory: Effect of an applied electric field.
Authors: Jun-ichi Fukuda, Makoto Yoneya, and Hiroshi Yokoyama.
Physical Review E 80, 031706 (2009)
2. Thermodynamics of blue phases in electric fields.
Authors: O. Henrich, D. Marenduzzo. K. Stratford, and M.E. Cates.
Physical Review E 81, 031706 (2010)
Recommended with a commentary by Slobodan [...]

The Mode-Coupling Theory of supercooled liquids: Does it wear any clothes?

1. Glass transition of hard spheres in high dimensions
Authors: Bernhard Schmid, Rolf Schilling
arXiv:1003.4559; Phys. Rev. E 81, 041502 (2010)
2. Mode-Coupling Theory as a Mean-Field Description of the Glass Transition
Authors: Atsushi Ikeda, Kunimasa Miyazaki
arXiv:1003.5472
3. A critical test of the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition
Authors: Ludovic Berthier, Gilles Tarjus
arXiv:1005.0914
Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CFM, [...]

PROGRESS IN SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS

1. Preparation and Measurement of Three-Qubit Entanglement in a Superconducting Circuit.
Authors: L. DiCarlo, M. D. Reed, L. Sun, B. R. Johnson, J. M. Chow, J. M. Gambetta, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, M. H. Devoret, R. J. Schoelkopf
arXiv:1004.4324
2. Generation of Three-Qubit Entangled States using Superconducting Phase Qubits.
Authors:  M. Neeley, R. C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, E. Lucero, M. Mariantoni, [...]

Is there liquid-vapor opalescence at the Mott transition?

Scaling theory of the Mott transition and breakdown of Gruneisen scaling near a finite-temperature critical end point
Authors: L. Bartosch,  M. de Souza,  M. Lang
arXiv:1004.4898; Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245701 (2010)
Recommended with a commentary by Jorg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_JUNE2010_03

Nanostructure in technicolor

Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy
Authors: Ondrej L. Krivanek, Matthew F. Chisholm, Valeria Nicolosi, Timothy J. Pennycook, George J. Corbin, Niklas Dellby, Matthew F. Murfitt, Christopher S. Own, Zoltan S. Szilagyi, Mark P. Oxley, Sokrates T. Pantelides and Stephen J. Pennycook
Nature 464, 571-574 (2010)
Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. [...]

Application of Quantitative Methods in Genetics

1. Recombination rate and selection strength in HIV intra-patient evolution
Authors : R.A. Neher & T. Leitner
PLoS Computational Biology, 6 (1), e10006600 (2010).
2. Rate of adaptation in large sexual populations
Authors : R.A. Neher, B.I. Shraiman & D. Fisher
Genetics, 184 (2), 467-81, (2009).
Recommended and commentary by Massimo Vergassola, CNRS/Institut Pasteur, Paris. Corresponding Member. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_MAY2010_02

Superconductivity in the repulsive Hubbard model: an asymptotically exact weak-coupling solution

Authors: S. Raghu. S. A. Kivelson and D. J. Scalapino
arXiv:1002591v1 [cond-mat.supr-con]
Recommended and Commentary by Peter Wöfle, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_MAY2010_03

Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator

Authors: A. D. OConnell, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, D. Sank, H. Wang, M. Weides,
J. Wenner, John M. Martinis, and A. N. Cleland
Nature 464, 697-703 (2010)
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf)|
JCCM_APRIL2010_01

Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms

Authors: Y.-J. Lin, R. L. Compton, K. Jimenez-Garcia, J. V. Porto, and  I. B. Spielman,
Nature, vol. 462, 628 December (2009)
Recommended with a Commentary by Tin-Lun Ho, Ohio State University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_APRIL2010_02

Phase Diagram of Janus Particles

Authors: Francesco Sciortino, Achille Giacometti, and Giorgio Pastore
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 237801.
Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania. |View Commentary (pdf)|
JCCM_APRIL2010_03

1. Robust ecological pattern formation induced by demographic noise / 2. Stochastic Turing patterns in the Brusselator model

1. Robust ecological pattern formation induced by demographic noise
Authors: Thomas Butler and Nigel Goldenfeld,
Phys. Rev. E 80, 030902(R) (2009)
2. Stochastic Turing patterns in the Brusselator model
Authors: Tommaso Biancalani, Duccio Fanelli and Francesca Di Patti
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4984 (2010)
Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_March2010_01

Observation of universal bound state spectrum near a magnetic quantum critical point

Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E8 Symmetry
Authors:  R. Coldea, D. A. Tennant, E. M. Wheeler, E. Wawrzynska, D. Prabhakaran, M. Telling, K. Habicht, P. Smeibidl, K. Kiefer
Science 327, 177 (2010)
Recommended with a commentary by Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley |  View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_March2010_02

Electric fi eld control of spin-orbit interaction and superconductivity at oxide interfaces

1. Tunable Rashba spin-orbit interaction at oxide interfaces
Authors: N. Reyren, S. Thiel, A.D. Caviglia, M. Gabay, S. Gariglio, N. Reyren, C. Cancellieri, and J.-M. Triscone,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3731
2. Tuning spin-orbit coupling and superconductivity at the SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface: a magneto-transport study
Authors:  M. Ben Shalom, M. Sachs, D. Rakhmilevitch, A. Palevski, and Y. Dagan,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0781
Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, [...]

Superconductivity in a doped topological insulator

1. Superconductivity in CuxBi2Se3 and its implication for pairing in the undoped topological insulator
Authors: Y.S. Hor, A.J. Williams, J.G. Checkelsky, P. Roushan, J. Seo, Q. Hu, H.W. Zandbergen, A. Yazdani, N.P. Ong and R.J. Cava,
arXiv:0909.2890, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 057001 (2010).
2. Observation of unconventional band topology in a superconducting doped topological insulator, CuxBi2Se3: Topological or [...]

Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome

Authors: Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Nynke L. van Berkum, Louise Williams, Maxim Imakaev, Tobias Ragoczy, Agnes Telling, Ido Amit, Bryan R. Lajoie, Peter J. Sabo, Michael O. Dorschner, Richard Sandstrom, Bradley Bernstein, M. A. Bender, Mark Groudine, Andreas Gnirke, John Stamatoyannopoulos, Leonid A. Mirny, Eric S. Lander and Job Dekker
Science 326:289-293, 2009.
Recommended with a commentary by Yitzhak [...]

Motion of Proteins along DNA

1. Nonspecific DNA-Protein Interaction: Why Proteins Can Diffuse along DNA
Authors: V. Dahirel, F. Pailluson, M. Jardat, M. Barbi and J.-M. Victor,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 228101(2009)
2. Searching Fast for a Target on DNA without Falling to Traps
Authors: O. Bénichou, Y. Kafri, M. Sheinman and R. Voituriez,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 138102(2009)
Recommended with a commentary by Daan Frenkel, [...]

Observation of macroscopic quantum coherence using new type of superconducting circuit

1)  Fluxonium: single Cooper pair circuit free of charge offsets.
Authors: V. E. Manucharyan, J. Koch, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret
http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0831 ; Science 326, 113-116 (2009).
2)  Coherent oscillations between classically separable quantum states of a superconducting loop
Authors: V. E. Manucharyan, J. Koch, M. Brink, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3039
Recommended with a Commentary [...]

30 Inch Graphene and the Origin of Electron-Hole Puddles

1) Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils
Authors: X. Li, W. Cai, J. An, S. Kim, J. Nah, D. Yang, R. Piner, A. Velamakanni, I. Jung, E. Tutuc, S. K. Banerjee, L. Colombo, R. S. Ruoff
Science 324, 1312 (2009)
2) 30-Inch Roll-Based Production of High-Quality Graphene Films for Flexible Transparent Electrodes
Authors: S. [...]

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

1) Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Authors: C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner, and SL Sondhi
ArXiv:0710.5515, Nature, 451 (7174):42-45, 2008.
2) Signature of magnetic monopole and Dirac string dynamics in spin ice
Authors: LDC Jaubert and PCW Holdsworth
ArXiv:0903.1074, Nature Physics, 5(4):258-261, 2009.
3) Measurement of the charge and current of magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Authors: ST Bramwell, SR Giblin, S. Calder, [...]

Fractional quantum Hall effect in Graphene

1) Fractional quantum Hall effect and insulating phase of Dirac electrons in graphene
Authors: Xu Du, Ivan Skachko, Fabian Duerr, Adina Luican, Eva Y. Andrei
arXiv:0910.2532, Nature 462, 192 (2009)
2) Observation of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Authors:  Kirill I. Bolotin, Fereshte Ghahari, Michael D. Shulman, Horst L. Stormer, Philip Kim
arXiv: arXiv:0910.2518, Nature 462, 196 (2009)
Recommended [...]

Cooperativity and frustration in protein-mediated parallel actin bundles

Authors: Homin Shin, Kirstin R. Purdy Drew, James R. Bartles, Gerard C. L. Wong, and Gregory M. Grason
Physical Review Letters 103, 238102 (2009)
Recommended with a commentary by Thomas R. Powers, Brown University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Dec09_03

Non-Equilibrium Edge Channel Spectroscopy in the Integer Quan- tum Hall Regime

Authors: C. Altimiras, H. le Sueur, U. Gennser, A. Cavanna, D. Mailly, and F. Pierre
arXiv:0910.2683
Recommended with a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, Yale University | View Commentary |
JCCM_Nov09_01

New Surprises in the Nernst Effect of Cuprate Superconductors

Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high-Tc superconductor
Authors: R. Daou, J. Chang, David LeBoeuf, Olivier Cyr-Choinière, Francis Laliberté, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and Louis Taillefer.
arXiv:0909.4430 (in press, Nature)
Recommended with a commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View Commentary |
JCCM_Nov09_02

Optical control of brain circuits

1) Optogenetic dissection of a behavioural module in the vertebrate spinal cord
Authors: Wyart C., Del Bene F., Warp E., Scott E.K., Trauner D., Baier H. and Isacoff E.Y
Nature 461, doi:10.1038/nature08323. arXiv:0910.2683
2) Parvalbumin neurons and gamma rhythms enhance cortical circuit performance
Authors: Sohal V.S., Zhang F., Yizhar O. and Deisseroth K.
Nature 459: 698, doi:10.1038/nature07991.
Recommended with a Commentary [...]

Experimental and Theoretical Developments in Dirty Bosons

1) Phase diagram of the disordered Bose-Hubbard model
Authors: V. Gurarie, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokofev, B. V. Svistunov and M. Troyer,
Arxiv:0909.4593
2) Superfluid-insulator transition of disordered bosons in one-dimension
Authors: E. Altman, Y. Kafri, A. Polkovnikov and G. Refael,
Arxiv:0909.4096.
3) Disordered insulator in an optical lattice
Authors: M. Pasienski, D. McKay, M. White and B. DeMarco,
Arxiv:0908.1182
4) Direct observation of [...]

Is Cs3C60 a cubic high temperature superconductor?

The Disorder-Free Non-BCS Superconductor Cs3C60 Emerges from an Antiferromagnetic Insulator Parent State
Authors: Y.Takabayashi, A. Y. Ganin, P. Jegli, D. Aron, T. Takano, Y. Iwasa, Y. Ohishi, M. Takata, N. Takeshita, K. Prassides, M. J. Rosseinsky
Science 323, 1585 – 1590 (2009).
Recommended by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University | View Commentary |
JCCM_Oct09_02

Effective viscosity of microswimmer suspensions

Authors: S Rafaï, L Jibuti, P Peyla
http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4193
Recommended and with commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary |
JCCM_Oct09_03

Polariton Condensation

1) Intrinsic decoherence mechanisms in the microcavity polariton condensate
Authors: A. P. D. Love, D. N. Krizhanovskii, D. M. Whittaker, R. Bouchekioua, D. Sanvitto, S. Al Rizeiqi, R. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, P. R. Eastham, R. Andre, and Le Si Dang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067404 (2008)
2) Quantized vortices in an exciton-polariton condensate
Authors: K.G. Lagoudakis, M. Wouters, [...]

“Perfect” fluids in nuclear, atomic and 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 of the Nernst effect near quantum [...]

A ‘Granocentric’ Model for Random Packing of Jammed Emulsions

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

Singular Fermi-Liquids from Duality of Field Theories to Theories of Gravity

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, University of California, Riverside. | View [...]

Observation of a novel orbital selective Mott transition in Ca1.8Sr0.2RuO4

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

Patterning in Bacteria

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, UK  | View Commentary |
JCCM_August09_03

X-ray Cross Correlation Analysis Uncovers Hidden Local Symmetries in Disordered Matter

Authors: Peter Wochner, Christian Gutt, Tina Autenrieth, Thomas Demmer,
Volodymyr Bugaev, Alejandro Díaz 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

Some recent advances in numerical algorithms for quantum many body problems

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, ETH Zürich | View Commentary |
JCCM_July09_02

Understanding “supernematics” created by dispersing ferroelectric nanoparticles

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

Some New Exact Relations in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases

(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 and Lucas Platter
arXiv:0803.1125, Physical Review Letters 100, [...]

Collective mode of Magnetization in Heavy Fermi Liquids

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
arXiv:0808.0892 , Phys. Rev, B [...]

How do drops spread over rough surfaces?

Contact angle hysteresis generated by strong, dilute defects.
Authors: Mathilde Reyssat and David Quéré
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113 (2009) 3906
Recommended with a Commentary by Julia Yeomans, Oxford University | View Commentary |
JCCM_June09_03

The n = 0 Landau level in graphene: Unusual properties in recent experiments

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, Phys. Rev. B 79, 115434 [...]

Experimental Search for Non-Abelian Anyons

“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) | View Commentary |
JCCM_May09_02

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

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

X-ray Specs: 3D nano-scale resolution imaging with x-rays

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 National Laboratory. | View Commentary [...]

Using Topological Defects as Glue: Hierarchical self-assembly of nematic colloidal superstructures

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 | View Commentary |
JCCM_April09_03

A ’Superglass’ State in Solid 4-He?

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 | View Commentary |
JCCM_April09_03

A New Way to Hide Things.

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

Emergence of the persistent spin helix in semiconductor quantum wells.

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

Casimir Forces near Critical Points of Phase Transitions

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 a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT  [...]

Depinning transition in failure of inhomogeneous brittle materia

Author: Laurent Ponson
cond-mat/0805.1802, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CFM | View Commentary (PDF) |
JCCM_Feb09_01

Ions, electrolytes, nano-pores, ultracapacitors, and energy storage

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. Osmotic water transport through carbon nanotube [...]

Observation of a Lattice of Skyrmions in a Magnetic Metal

1. Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet ”
Authors: S. Mhlbauer, B. Binz, F. Jonietz, C. Pfleiderer, A. Rosch, A. Neubauer, Georgii, P. Boni
arXiv:0902.1968 [Science 323, 915 (2009)]
2. Topological Hall effect in the A-phase of MnSi”
Authors: A. Neubauer, C. Pfleiderer, B. Binz, A. Rosch, R. Ritz, P. G. Niklowitz, Boni,
arXiv:0902.1933
3. Unusual Hall Effect Anomaly in MnSi [...]

How to steer a complex organism: Mechanism of Phototaxis in Marine Zooplankton

Authors: Gáspár Jékely, Julien Colombelli, Harald Hausen, Keren Guy, Ernst Stelzer, François Nédélec & Detlev Arendt
Nature 456, 395-399 (2008): doi:10.1038/nature07590
Recommended with commentary by Raymond E. Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan09_01

Thermo-Spintronics: A New Direction for Spins

“Observation of the Spin Seebeck Effect,”
Authors: K. Uchida, S. Takahashi, K. Harii, J. Ieda, W. Koshibae, K. Ando, S. Maekawa, and E. Saitoh
Nature 455, 778 (2008)
Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan09_02

Quenching quantum many-body systems: fundamental relations between work distribution and dephasing.

1. The Statistics of the Work Done on a Quantum Critical System by Quenching a Control Parameter
Author: Alessandro Silva
arXiv:0806.4301; Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 120603 (2008)

and
2. On quenches in quantum many-body systems: the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model revisited
Author: Guillaume Roux
arXiv:0810.3720
Recommended with a Commentary by Anatoly Polkovnikov, Boston University   | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan09_03

Multiphase transformation and Ostwald’s rule of stages during crystallization of a metal phosphate

Authors: Sung-Yoon Chung, Young-Min Kim, Jin-Gyu Kim, Youn-Joong Kim
Nature Physics (23 Nov 2008), doi: 10.1038/nphys1148
Recommended with commentary by Daan Frenkel, Dept of Chemistry, U. Cambridge | View Commentary (pdf) |

Field control of superconductivity at insulating oxide interfaces

1. Superconducting interfaces between insulating oxides
Authors: N. Reyren, S. Thiel, A. D. Caviglia, L. F. Kourkoutis, G. Hammerl, C. Richter, C. W. Schneider, T. Kopp, A.-S. Ruetschi, D. Jaccard, M. Gabay, D. A. Muller, J.-M. Triscone, and J. Mannhart,
Science 317, 1196 (2007).
2. Electric-field-induced superconductivity in an insulator,
Authors: K. Ueno, S. Nakamura, H. Shimotani, A. Ohtomo, [...]

Bismuth in strong magnetic fields

1. Signatures of Electron Fractionalization in Ultraquantum Bismuth
Authors:  K. Behnia, L. Balicas and Y. Kopelevich,
arXiv:0802.1993, Science 317, 1729 (2007).
2. Phase Transitions of Dirac Electrons in Bismuth
Authors: L. Li, J.G. Checkelsky, Y.S. Uher, A.F. Hebard, R.J. Cava and N.P. Ong,
Science 321, 547 (2008).
Recommended with a commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Dec08_03

Quantum interference and Klein tunneling in graphene heterojunctions

Authors: Andrea F. Young and Philip Kim
arXiv:0808.0855
Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary (pdf) |

Importance of Protein Variablity In Mammalian Cells.

Dynamic Proteomics of Individual Cancer Cells in Response to a Drug
Authors: A.A. Cohen, N. GevaZatorsky, E. Eden, M. FrenkelMorgenstern, I. Issaeva, A. Sigal, R. Milo, C. CohenSaidon, Y. Liron, Z. Kam, L. Cohen, T. Danon, N. Perzov, and U. Alon.
Published online November 20 2008; 10.1126/science.1160165 (Science Express Research Articles)
Variability and Robustness in T Cell Activation [...]

Mysterious Order for Spins on a Triangular Lattice

Unconventional spin freezing and fluctuations in the frustrated antiferromagnet NiGa2S4
Authors: D. E. MacLaughlin, Y. Nambu, S. Nakatsuji, R. H. Heffner, Lei Shu, O. O. Bernal and K. Ishida
http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1057
Spin disorder on a Triangular Lattice
Authors: S. Nakatsuji, Y. Nambu, H. Tonomura, O. Sakai, S. Jonas, C. Broholm, H. Tsunetsugu, Y. Qiu, Y. Maeno
Science 309 1697 (2005).
Recommended with [...]

Generation of Fock states in a superconducting quantum circuit

Authors: Max Hofheinz, E.M. Weig, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A.D. O’Connell, H. Wang, John M. Martinis, and A.N. Cleland
Nature 454, 310 (2008)
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Oct08_01

Self-Assembled Chiral Superstructures Composed of Rigid Achiral Molecules and Molecular Scale Chiral Induction by Dopants

Authors: Fangyong Yan, Christopher Adam Hixson, and David J. Earl
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 157801
Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Oct08_02

Iron Pnictides research coming of age

1. Specific heat Measurements: “Fully gapped superconducting state based on a high
normal state quasiparticle density of states in Ba0.6 K0.4 Fe2 As2 single crystals,” G. Mu, H.
Luo, Z. Wang, L. Shan, C. Ren and H.H. Wen.
arXiv:0808.2941.
2. ARPES Measurements:“Observation of Fermi surface-dependent nodeless superconduct-
ing gaps in Ba0.6 K0.4 Fe2 As2 ,” H. Ding, P. Richard, K. [...]

Entropy Maximization in the Force Network Ensemble for Granular Solids

Authors: Brian P. Tighe, Adrianne R. T. van Eerd, and Thijs J. H. Vlugt
arXiv:0803.0907, Phys. Rev. Lett, 100, 238001 (2008)
Recommended with Commentary by R.P. Behringer, Duke University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Sept08_01

Towards a Humpty Dumpty approach for solving the structure of individual nanoparticles

Structure from Fleeting Illumination of Faint Spinning Objects in Flight with Application to Single Molecules
Authors: Russell Fung, Valentin Shneerson, Dilano K. Saldin, and Abbas Ourmazd
arXiv: 0806.2341v1 [physics.bio-ph] (2008)
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 National [...]

Simulating the Hubbard Model by Cold Atoms

1. “Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases”
Authors: Bloch, J. Dalibard and W. Zwerger,
arXiv:0704.3011; to be published in Rev. Mod. Phys.
2. “A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice”
Authors: R. Jördens, N. Strohmaier, K. Günter, H. Moritz, T. Esslinger,
arXiv:0804.4009v1, Nature 455 204 (2008).
3.“Metallic and Insulating Phases of Repulsively Interacting Fermions in a 3D Optical Lattice”
Authors: [...]

Coupling of Spin and Orbital Motion of Electrons in Carbon Nanotubes

Coupling of Spin and Orbital Motion of Electrons in Carbon Nanotubes
Authors: F. Kuemmeth, S. Ilani, D. C. Ralph, and P. L. McEuen
arXiv:0802.1351, Nature v. 452, 448-452 (27 March 2008)
Recommended with a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |

Entropy consumption and production in a slowly sheared jam

Nonequilibrium Fluctuation Relation for Sheared Micellar Gel in a Jammed State
Authors: Sayantan Majumdar and A.K. Sood
Phys Rev Lett 101, 078301 (2008)
Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_August08_2

Multi-exciton generation in nanodots: a new paradigm for solar energy conversion

(I) R.D. Schaller, M. Sykora, J.F. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov: “Seven excitons at the cost of one: redefining the limits for conversion efficiency of photons into charge carriers”, Nano Letters, 6, 424 (2006).
(II) G. Nair and M.G. Bawendi: “Carrier Multiplication yields for CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals by transient photoluminescence spectroscopy”, arXiv.org :0708.3866, [...]

Fractalisation drives crystalline states in a frustrated spin system

Authors: Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, P. Sengupta, C. D. Batista, S. Francoual, E. Palm, T. Murphy, N. Marcano, H. A. Dabkowska, and B. D. Gaulin
ArXiv.0707.2075
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_July08_01

A topological Dirac insulator in a quantum spin Hall phase.

Authors: D. Hsieh, D. Qian, L. Wray, Y. Xia, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan.
Nature 454, 970 (2008)
Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_July08_02

Magnetorotational-type Instability in Couette-Taylor Flow of a Viscoelastic Polymer Liquid

G. I. Ogilvie and A. T. Potter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074503 (2008)
Recommended with a commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University | View Commentary |
JCCM_July08_03

Lagrangian Dispersion and Heat Transport in Thermal Convective Turbulence

Authors: Joerg Schumacher
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1634v1 [physics.flu-dyn],
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 (2008) 134502
Recommended with a commentary by Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen | View Commentary |
JCCM_June08_01

Universal Dynamic Conductivity and Quantized Visible Opacity of Suspended Graphene

Authors: R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A.N. Grigorenko, K.S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, A. K. Geim.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3718
Science 320, 1308 (2008).
Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary |
JCCM_June08_02

Does T* the temperature that defines the onset of the pseudogap regime in underdoped cuprates – correspond to a phase transition or a crossover?

Nature of the enigmatic pseudogap state: novel magnetic order in superconducting HgBa2CuO4+d
Authors: Y. Li, V. Balédent, N. Barisic, Y. Cho, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, G. Yu, X. Zhao, P. Bourges, and M. Greven,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2959
and
Thermodynamic signature of a phase transition to the pseudogap phase of YBa2 Cu3 Ox high-Tc superconductor
Authors: B. Leridon, P. Monod, and D. Colson.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2128
Recommended [...]

Frictional duality observed during nanoparticle sliding

Authors: Dirk Dietzel, Claudia Ritter, Tristan Monninghoff, Harald Fuchs, Andre Schirmeisen, and Udo D. Schwarz
arXiv:0805.2448v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
Recommended with a commentary by J. Fineberg, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May08_01

Surprises in spinor condensates: Spontaneous spin lattice textures.

Commentary on “Spontaneously modulated spin textures in a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate”
Authors: M. Vengalattore, S. R. Leslie, J. Guzman, D. M. Stamper-Kurn
arXiv:0712.4182, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170403 (2008),
Recommended with a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May08_02

Electronic spin transport and spin precession in single graphene layers at room temperature

Authors: Nikolaos Tombros, Csaba Jozsa, Mihaita Popinciuc, Harry T. Jonkman, Bart J. van Wees,
arXiv:0706.1948, Nature 448, 571-574 (2007).
Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May08_03

Oxygen continues to support superconducting life

About two articles per day in the last month on arXiv.org on the subject of Fe-pnictide Superconductors, some of them referred in the text of the commentary below.
Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |

Optical probe of electrostatic-doping in an n-type Mott insulator

Authors: M. Nakamura, A. Sawa, H. Sato, H. Akoh, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura,
arXiv:cond-mat/0702351v1; Phys. Rev. B 75, 155103 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo | View Commentary (pdf) |

1. Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge / 2. Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides

Optimization of the antimicrobial activity of magainin peptides by modification of charge
Authors: Margitta Dathe, Heike Nikolenko, Jana Meyer, Michael Beyermann, and Michael Bienert
FEBS Letters 501, 146-150 (2001)
and
Physical Basis of Membrane-Charge Selectivity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides
Authors: Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101-1–16801-4 (2007)
Recommended with a commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT | View Commentary [...]

GaN Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Laser at Blue-Violet Wavelengths.

Authors: H. Matsubara, S. Yoshimoto, H. Saito, Y. Jianglin, Y. Tanaka and S. Noda.
Science 319, 445 (2008)
Recommended with a commentary by Stephen Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Mar08_01

Anderson Localization in Cold Bosonic Atoms.

Density modulations in an elongated BEC released from a disordered potential.
Authors: David Cl ́ement, Philippe Bouyer, Alain Aspect, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1984
Disorder-induced trapping versus anderson localization in Bose-Einstein condensates expanding in disordered potentials.
Authors: L. Sanchez-Palencia, D. Cl ́ement, P. Lugan, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1774
Effect of interactions on the localization of a Bose-Einstein condensate [...]

Quasiparticle charge in the ν = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state

“Towards identification of a non-Abelian state: observation of a quarter of electron charge at ν = 5/2 quantum Hall state,”
Authors: M. Dolev, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, A. Stern, D. Mahalu
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0930
and
“Quasiparticle Tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν = 5/2,”
Authors: I. P. Radu, J. B. Miller, C. M. Marcus, M. A. Kastner, L. N. [...]

Spatial determination of magnetic avalanche ignition points

Authors: Reem Jaafar, S. McHugh, Yoko Suzuki, M.P. Sarachik, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, H. Shtrikman, R. Bagai, G. Christou
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703448
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 320 (2008) 695–698
Recommended with a commentary by Albert Migliori, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_February08_01

Crystalline silicon that conducts heat like a glass

1. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials
Authors: A.I. Boukai, Y. Bunimovich, J. Tahir-Kheli, J.K. Yu, W.A. Goddard III, J.R. Heath
Nature 451, 1680 (2008)
2. Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires
Authors: A.I. Hochbaum, R.K. Chen, R.D. Delgado, W.J. Liang, M. Najarian, A. Majumdar, and P.D. Yang
Nature 451, 1680 (2008)
Recommended with a commentary by S. Paschen, [...]

Topological Band Insulators in two and three dimensions in spin-orbit coupled systems

A. Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene
Authors: A. C. Kane and G. Mele
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411737
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226801 (2005)
B. Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells
Authors: A. Bernevig, T. Hughes, S.C. Zhang
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611399
Science, 314, 1757 (2006)
C. Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures
Authors: J. E. Moore, L. Balents
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607314
Phys. Rev. B 75, 121306(R) (2007)
D. [...]

Nanoparticle Structure: Going beyond Pictures

Structure of a thiol monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle at 1.1 A resolution,
Authors: Pablo D. Jadzinsky, Guillermo Calero, Christopher J. Ackerson, David A. Bushnell and Roger D. Kornberg
Science 318 430 (2007)
Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan08_01

First passage times in complex scale-invariant media

Authors: S. Condamin, O. B ́enichou, V. Tejedor, R. Voituriez, J. Klafter.
http://arXiv:0711.0682
Nature 450, 77-80 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Bernard Nienhuis, University of Amsterdam | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan08_02

Clues to the Hidden Order Parameter in URu2Si2 through Inelastic Neutron Scattering Measurements

Authors: C.R. Wiebe, J.A. Janik, G.J. MacDougall, G.M. Luke, J.D. Garrett, H.D. Zhou, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J.R. D. Copley, Z. Yamani, and W.J. L. Buyers.
http://Arxiv:0710.0896v2
Recommended and a Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Jan08_03

The Fermi Surface of underdoped high-Tc superconductors

“Quantum oscillations and the Fermi surface in an underdoped high-Tc superconductor,”
Authors: Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Cyril Proust, David LeBoeuf, Julien Levallois, Jean-Baptiste Bonnemaison, Ruixing Liang, D.A. Bonn, W.N. Hardy and Louis Taillefer
Nature, 565 (31 May 2007).
and
“Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors”
Authors: David LeBoeuf, Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Julien Levallois, R. Daou, J.-B. Bonnemaison, Hussey, L. [...]

End-to-End Stacking and Liquid Crystal Condensation of 6- to 20- Base Pair DNA Duplexes

Authors: Michi Nakata, Giuliano Zanchetta, Brandon D. Chapman, Christopher D. Jones, Julie O. Cross, Ronald Pindak, Tommaso Bellini, and Noel A. Clark
Science 318 (2007) 1276
Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Dec07_02

Evidence for Spin-Chiral Edge Transport in HgTe Quantum Wells

Authors: M. Konig, S. Wiedemann, C. Brune, A. Roth, H. Buhmann, L. W. Molenkamp, X-L Qi, S-C Zhang,
Science 318, 766 (2007)
Recommended and a Commentary by Leonid Levitov, MIT | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM Dec07 03

Single artificial-atom lasing

Authors: O. Astafiev, K. Inomata, A.O. Niskanen, T. Yamamoto, Yu. A. Pashkin, Y. Nakamura, and J.S. Tsai
Nature 449, 588 (2007)
http://arXiv:0710.0936
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Nov07_01

Kinetic insulation as an effective mechanism for achieving pathway specificity in intracellular signaling networks

Authors: Marcelo Behar, Henrik G. Dohlman and Timothy C. Elston

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 16146-16151 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Martin Howard, The John Innes Centre, UK | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Nov07_02

Fluctuating superconductivity in organic molecular metals close to the Mott transition

Authors: M-S Nam, A. Ardavan, S. J. Blundell and J. A. Schlueter,
Nature 449, 4 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Steven A. Kivelson, Stanford University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Nov07_03

The Continued Saga of Fermions with Unequal Spin Population

Phase diagram of a two-component Fermi gas with resonant interactions
Authors: Yong-il Shin, Christian H. Schunch, Andre Schirotzek, Wolfgang Ketterle,
arXiv:0709.3027
and
Deformation of a trapped Fermi gas with unequal spin population
Authors: G.B. Partridge, Wenhui Li, Y,.A. Liao, R.G. Hulet, M. Hague, H.T.C. Stoof,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190407 (2006).
Recommended with a Commentary by Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, Ohio State [...]

Polydispersity-Induced Macrophase Separation in Diblock Copolymer Melts

Author: M.W. Matsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 148304
Recommended and a commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania | View Commentary |
JCCM_Oct07_2

Kinks in the dispersion of strongly correlated electrons

Authors: K. Byczuk, M. Kollar, K. Held, Y.-F. Yang, I. A. Nekrasov, Th. Pruschke and D. Vollhardt
Nature Physics 3, 168 (2007)
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609594
Recommended and Commentary by Peter Wölfle, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany | View Commentary |
JCCM_Oct07_3

Temperature dependent polarity reversal in Au/Nb:SrTiO3 Schottky junctions

Authors: T. Susaki, Y. Kozuka, Y. Tateyama, and H. Y. Hwang,
http://arXiv.org/abs/0708.3725
Recommended with a Commentary by Atsushi Fujimori, University of Tokyo | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Sept07_01

A Quantitative, Theoretical Framework for Understanding Mammalian Sleep

Authors: Van M. Savage and Geoffrey B. West
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 1051-1056 (2007)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/3/1051
Recommended with a Commentary by Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute, Israel. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Sept07_02

1. Visualizing pair formation on the atomic scale in the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ / 2. Imaging the Two Gaps of the High-Tc Superconductor Pb-Bi2Sr2CuO6+x

Authors: K. K. Gomes, A. N. Pasupathy, A. Pushp, S. Ono, Y. Ando and A. Yazdani
http;//arXiv:0706.0214
Nature 447, 569 (2007).
and
Authors: M. C. Boyer, W. D. Wise, K. Chatterjee, M. Yi, T. Kondo, T. Takeuchi, H. Ikuta, and E. W. Hudson
http://arXiv:0705.1731
Recommended with a Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Harvard University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Sept07_03

Spatial force correlations in granular shear flow

Authors: Gregg Lois, Anaël Lemaître and Jean M. Carlson
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612679
Phys. Rev. E, 76, 021302 (2007)
Recommended with Commentary by R.P. Behringer, Duke University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_August07_01

Interplay between electron-phonon and Coulomb interactions

Authors: O. Gunnarsson and O. Rösch
http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1407
Recommended with a Commentary by Claudio Castellani, Universita’ di Roma | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_August07_02

Novel metallic and insulating states at a bent quantum Hall junction.

Authors: M. Grayson, L. Steinke, D. Schuh, M. Bichler, L. Hoeppel, J. Smet, K. v. Klitzing, D. K. Maude, and G. Abstreiter.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701295
Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_August07_03

Oscillation Frequency Dependence of Non-classical Rotational Inertia of Solid 4He

Authors: Y Aoki, J C Graves, and H Kojima
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0560
Recommended with a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_July07_01

Observation of Electron-Hole Puddles in Graphene Using a Scanning Single Electron Transistor

Authors: J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and A. Yacoby
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2180
Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_July07_02

Contrasting Quantum Capacitance Measurements of Carbon Nanotubes in the Non-interacting limit and with Interactions

1. Measurement of the quantum capacitance of interacting electrons in carbon nanotubes
Authors: S. Ilani*, L. A. K. Donev, M. Kindermann and P. L. McEuen
Nature physics, Vol. 2, p867 (2006).
2. Quantum Capacitance Spectroscopy of Single Nanotube Molecules
Authors: Yuerui Lu, Ryan Tu, Xinran Wang, Yoshio Nishi and Hongjie Dai
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0707.0171v1
Recommended and a commentary by Rafi de Picciotto, [...]

Structure solution of real materials: Charge flipping can help

Ab initio phasing of x-ray powder diffraction patterns by charge flipping
Nature Materials 5 647 (2006)
Authors: Jinsong Wu, Kurt Leinenweber, John C. H. Spence and Michael O’Keeffe
Recommended with a commentary by Simon J. L. Billinge, Michigan State University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_June07_01

Interference between two independent electrons: observation of two-particle Aharonov-Bohm interference

Authors: I. Neder, N. Ofek, Y. Chung, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu and V. Umansky
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0173; Nature (in press)
Recommended with a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_June07_02

Entropy and Temperature of a Static Granular Assembly

Authors: Silke Henkes, Corey S. OHern and Bulbul Chakraborty
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701489v1
Recommended and with a commentary by Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_June07_03

Semiclassical dynamics and long time asymptotics of the central spin problem

Authors: Gang Chen, Doron L. Bergman, and Leon Balents
arXiv.org/cond-mat/0703631
Recommended with a commentary by Leonid Glazman, Minnesota | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May07_01

Critical Behavior of a Trapped Interacting Bose Gas

Authors: T. Donner, S. Ritter, T. Bourdel, A. Ottl, M. Kohl, T. Esslinger,
Science 315, 1556 (2007)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1439
Recommended with a commentary by Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, Ohio State University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May07_02

Excess Vibrational Modes and the Boson Peak in Model Glasses

Authors: N. Xu, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v98/e175502
http://arxiv.org/cond-mat/0611474
Recommended with a commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_May07_03

New Progress on Water!

Authors: G. S. Fanourgakis and S. S. Xantheas, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 4100-4106 (2006).; G. S. Fanourgakis, G. K. Schenter and S. S. Xantheas, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 141102 (1-4) (2006).
Authors: R. Bukowski, K. Szalewicz, G. C. Groenenboom and A. van der Avoird, Science 315, 1249-1252 (2007).
Recommended with a Commentary by Stephen Berry, [...]

1. Strong suppression of weak (anti)localization in graphene / 2. Bipolar supercurrent in graphene

1. Strong suppression of weak (anti)localization in graphene
Authors: S.V. Morozov, K.S. Novoselov, M.I. Katsnelson, F. Schedin, L.A. Ponomarenko, D. Jiang, A.K. Geim
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603826
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016801 (2006)
2. Bipolar supercurrent in graphene
Authors: H. B. Heersche, P. Jarillo-Herrero, J. B. Oostinga, L. M. K. Van-dersypen, A. F. Morpurgo
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612121
Nature 446, 56 (2007)
Recommended with a Commentary by Francisco Guinea, [...]

Spin-polarization induced tenfold magnetoresistivity of highly metallic two-dimensional holes in a narrow GaAs quantum well

Authors: X.P.A.Gao, G.S.Boebinger, A.P.Mills, Jr., A.P.Ramirez, L.N.Pfeiffer, and K.W.West
Physical Review B 73, 241315 (2006)
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0506031;
Recommended with a Commentary by Steve Kivelson, Stanford University. | View PDF |
JCCM_April07_03

Universality of Random Close Packing?

Authors: R. D. Kamien and A. J. Liu
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701343
Recommended with a commentary by Daan Frenkel, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam | View PDF |
JCCM_March07_01

Intrinsic Noise Properties of Atomic Point Contact Displacement Detectors

Authors: N. E. Flowers-Jacobs, D. R. Schmidt, and K. W. Lehnert
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0701536
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096804 (2007)
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View PDF |
JCCM_March07_02

A Quantum Antiferromagnet on the Kagoḿe Lattice

A Quantum Antiferromagnet on the Kagoḿe Lattice
Featured papers:
1. Spin Dynamics of the spin-1/2 Kagoḿe lattice antiferromagnet ZnCu3 (OH)6 Cl2 .
Authors: J.S. Helton, K. Matan, M.P. Shores, E.A. Nytko, B.M. Bartlett, Y. Yoshida, Y. Takano, A. Suslov, Y. Qiu, J.-H. Chung, D.G. Nocera, Y.S. Lee [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107204 (2007)]
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610539
2. Ground state [...]

Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes

Authors: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Jorden A. van Dam and Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Nature 439, 953-956 (23 February 2006)
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601434
Recommended with a commentary by Benjamin Huard, Stanford University | View PDF |
JCCM_February07_01

Electrical Detection of Spin Transport in Lateral Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Devices

Authors: X. Lou, C. Adelmann, S. A. Crooker, E. S. Garlid, J. Zhang, S. M. Reddy, S. D. Flexner, C. J. Palmstrom, and P. A. Crowell
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0701021
Recommended with a Commentary by Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside. | View PDF |
JCCM_February07_02

An Ultra-Pure Heterostructure of a Transition metal Oxide. Observation of the Quantum Hall Effect in an Oxide Heterostructure

Authors: A. Tsukazaki et al.
Published online 25 January 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1137430] (in Science Express Reports)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1137430
Recommended with a Commentary by A. P. Ramirez, Bell Labs. | View PDF |
JCCM_February07_03

Evidence for Critical Fluctuations in the Establishment of the Body Plan of a Simple Animal. Hydro Molecular Network Reaches Criticality at the Symmetry-Breaking Axis-Defining Moment

Authors: Jordi Soriano, Cyril Colombo, and Albrecht Ott
Physical Review Letters 97, 258102 (2006)
Recommended with a commentary by Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge | View PDF |
JCCM_January07_01

Formation of a Nematic Fluid at High Fields in Sr3Ru3O7

Authors:. R.A. Borzi, S.A. Grigera, J. Farrell, R.S. Perry, S.J.S. Lister, S.L. Lee, D.A. Tennant, Y. Maeno, and A.P. Mackenzie
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0612599
Science 315, 158 (2007)
Recommended and a commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | View PDF |
JCCM_January07_02

Mössbauer spectroscopy sees atoms tunneling in a crystal. Direct experimental evidence for atomic tunneling of Europium in crystalline Eu8Ga16Ge30

Authors: Raphaël P. Hermann, Veerle Keppens, Pierre Bonville, George S. Nolas, Fernande Grandjean, Gary J. Long, Hans M. Christen, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Brian C. Sales, and David Mandrus
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017401 (2006)
Recommended and a commentary by S. Paschen, Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Vienna, Austria | View Commentary PDF |
JCCM_January07_03

Disordered systems, Metastability and the Functional Renormalisation Group

Authors: P. Le Doussal, K. J. Wiese and co-workers
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0610525
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0606160
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0610821
Recommended with a commentary by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CEN Saclay | View PDF |
JCCM_December06_01

New Developments with cold atoms.

New Developments with cold atoms.
Free Fermion Antibundching in a Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gas Released from an Optical Lattice
Authors: T. Rom, Th. Best, D. van Oosten, U. Schneider, S. Folling, B. Paredes, and I. Bloch
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0611561, Nature 444, 733-736 (2006).
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect for boson versus fermions
Authors: T. Jeltes, J.M. McNamara, W. Hogervorst, W. Vassen, V. [...]

Study of Anisotropic Superconductors by Angle-resolved Specific Heat

Authors: Tuson Park, M.B. Salamon
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411001
Related references:
T. Park, M. B. Salamon, E. M. Choi, H. J. Kim, and S.-I. Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 177001; K. Deguchi, Z. Mao, H. Yaguchi, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 047002; H. Aoki et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16 (2004) L13.
Recommended with a Commentary by [...]

1. Single-Molecule, Motion-Based DNA Sequencing Using RNA Polymerase. / 2. Sequence-Resolved Detection of Pausing by Single RNA Polymerase Molecules.

1. Single-Molecule, Motion-Based DNA Sequencing Using RNA Polymerase
Authors: William J. Greenleaf and Steven M. Block
Science 313, 801 (2006).
2. Sequence-Resolved Detection of Pausing by Single RNA Polymerase Molecules.
Authors: K. M. Herbert, A. La Porta, B. J. Wong, R. A. Mooney, K. C. Neuman, R. Landick and S. M. Block
Cell 125, 1083-1094 (2006).
Recommended with a commentary by [...]

Height variables in the Abelian sandpile model:scaling fields and correlations

Authors: Monwhea Jeng, Geoffry Piroux and Philippe Ruelle
J. Stat. Mech.(2006) P10015
arXiv.org/cond-mat/0609284
Recommended with a commentary by D. Dhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai | View PDF |
JCCM_November06_02

Tuning the heavy-fermion ground state in Ce-115 by Cd doping and hydrostatic pressure.

Authors: L. D. Pham, T. Park, S. Maquilon, J. D. Thompson and Z. Fisk. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 056404 (2006).
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611654
Recommended with a commentary by H. v. Löhneysen, Universität Karlsruhe, Physikalisches Institut and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Germany | View PDF |
JCCM_November06_03

From a Model for Spin Glasses to the Phenomenology of Glasses

Authors: M. Tarzia and M.A. Moore
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0609113

Recommended and Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University | View PDF |
JCCM_October06_01

Cooling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum back-action

Authors: A. Naik, O. Buu, M. D. LaHaye, A. D. Armour, A. A. Clerk, M. P. Blencowe and K. C. Schwab
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0609297
Nature 443, 193 (2006)
Recommended and Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University | View PDF |
JCCM_October06_02

Possible Quantum-liquid Metallic Phase of Hydrogen at high Pressures and its Properties

Authors: P. Loubeyre, F. Occelli and R. LeToullec
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0410425
Nature 416, 613 (2002)
Authors: S. Bonev, E. Schwegler, T. Ogitsu and G. Galli
Nature 431, 669 (2004)
Authors: E.Babaev, A. Sudbo and N.W. Ashcroft; E.Smorgrav, E. Babaev, J. Smiseth and A. Sudbo
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0410408; http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0508286
Nature 431, 665 (2004)
Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, UC Riverside | View PDF |
(JCCM_October06_03)

Scale invariance and universality of force networks in static granular matter

Authors: Srdjan Ostojic, Ellak Somfai and Bernard Nienhuis
http://ArXiV.org/cond-mat/0601047 (Nature,  439, 828 (2006))
Recommended and a Commentary by R.P. Behringer, Duke University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Sep06_01)

Effect of DC electric field on longitudinal resistance of two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field

Authors: Jing-qiao Zhang, Sergey Vitalkov, A. A. Bykov, K. Kalagin and A. K. Bakarov
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0607741
Recommended and Commentary by Rafael de Picciotto, Bell Laboratories.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Sep06_02)

Supersolid order on the triangular lattice

Authors: S. Wessel and M. Troyer
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505298
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 95, 127205 (2005)
Authors: D. Heidarian and K. Damle
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505257
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 95, 127206 (2005)
Authors: R. G. Melko, A. Paramekanti, A. A. Burkov, A. Vishwanath, D. N. Sheng, and L. Balents
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505258
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 95, 127207 (2005)
Authors: R. G. Melko, A. Del Maestro, and A. A. [...]

1. Stochastic gene expressionin a fluctuating environment / 2. Phenotypic diversity, population growth, and information in fluctuating environments

1. Stochastic gene expressionin a fluctuating environment
Authors: M. Thattai and A. van Oudenaarden
Science, vol. 167, 523 (2004)
2. Phenotypic diversity, population growth, and information in fluctuating environments
Authors: E. Kussell and S. Liebler
Science, vol. 309, 2075 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_August06_01)

1. Elimination of the supersolid phase through crystal annealing / 2. Superfluidity of grain boundaries and supersolid behavior

1. Elimination of the supersolid phase through crystal annealing
Authors: Ann Sophie C. Rittner and John D. Reppy
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0604528
2. Superfluidity of grain boundaries and supersolid behavior
Authors: S. Sasaki, R. Ishiguro, F. Caupin, H. J. Maris and S. Balibar
Science Express, 3 Aug. 2006, p.1.
Recommended and Commentary by A. J. Leggett, University of Illinois. | View Commentary (pdf) [...]

Nonequilibrium Transport in Quantum Impurity Models: The Bethe Ansatz for Open Systems

Authors: Pankaj Mehta and Natan Andrei
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508026
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 96, 216802 (2006)
Recommended and Commentary by Peter Woelfle, University of Karlsruhe. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_August06_03)

From Fermi Arcs to the Nodal Metal: Scaling of the Pseudogap with Doping and Temperature

Authors: A. Kanigel, M.R. Norman, M. Randeria, U. Chatterjee, S. Suoma, A. Kaminski, H.M. Fretwell, S. Rozenkranz, M. Shi, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, Z.Z. Li, H. Raffy, K. Kadowaki, D. Hinks, L. Ozyuzer, and J. C. Campuzano
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0605499
(Nature, Phys. 2, 447 (2006))
Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_July06_01)

Direct electronic measurement of the spin-Hall effect

Authors: S.O. Valenzuela and M. Tinkham
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605423 (Nature, in press)
Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_July06_02)

Frustrated Polyelectrolyte Bundles and T = 0 Josephson-Junction Arrays

Authors: Gregory M. Grason and Robijn F. Bruinsma
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0601462
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 027802 (2006)
Recommended and Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_July06_03)

Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies

Authors: D. Collin, F. Ritort, C. Jarzynski, S. B. Smith, I. Tinoco Jr and C. Bustamante
Nature 437 (8), 231-234 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_June06_01)

Efimov Effect and Renormalization Group Limit Cycle

(Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms)
Authors: T. Kraemer, M. Mark, P. Waldburger, J. G. Danzl, C. Chin, B. Engeser, A. D. Lange, K. Pilch, A. Jaakkola, H. C. Naegerl, and R. Grimm
Nature 440, 315, (2006)
Recommended and Commentary by Tin-Lin Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_June06_02)

Superfluid density reveals a quantum critical point between d-wave superconductivity and a Mott insulator

Authors:  D. M. Broun, P. J. Turner, W. a. Huttema, S. Ozcan, B. Morgan, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy and D. A. Bonn
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509223
Recommended and Commentary by Catherine Kallin, McMasters University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jun06_03)

Melting of a 2D Quantum Electron Solid in High Magnetic

Authors: Yong P. Chen, G.Sambandamurthy, Z. H. Wang, R. M. Lewis, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, P. D. Ye, N. L. Pfeiffer, K. W. West
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0604004
Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May06_01)

Quantum Interference of Matter Waves with topological Defect

(Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in a Trapped Atomic Gas)
Authors: Zoran Hadzibabic, Peter Krüger, Marc Cheneau, Baptiste Battelier, Jean B. Dalibard
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0605291 (Nature, in press)
Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May06_02)

Contact mechanics for randomly rough surfaces

Authors: B. N. J. Persson
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0603807
Recommended and Commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May06_03)

Universality of the “1/8-th” anomaly in Cuprates

Authors: R. Liang, D.A.Bonn, and W.N.Hardy
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0510674
Recommended and a Commentary by S.A.Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Apr06_01)

The Blue Fog State of Magnetization: Helical Spin Crystal in MnSi

Authors: B. Binz, A. Vishwanath and Vivek Aji
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0602529
Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Apr06_02)

Anomalous Excitation Spectra of Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnets

Authors: Weihong Zheng, John O. Fjaerestad, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Ross H. McKenzie, Radu Coldea
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0506400
Recommended and a Commentary by Matthew Fisher, UCSB.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar06_01)

How soft solids respond to overcrowding

Authors: Bianca M. Mladek, Dieter Gottwald, Gerhard Kahl, Martin Neumann, Christos N. Likos
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0511172
Phys. Rev. Lett 96, 45701 (2006)
Recommended and Commentary by Daan Frenkel, FOM, Amsterdam. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar06_02)

Measurement of the Electronic Gruneisen Constant by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

Authors: Shouhua Nie, Xuan Wang, Hyuk Park, Richard Clinite, Jianming Cao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025901 (2006)
Recommended and Commentary by Albert Migliori, LANL, Los Alamos. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar06_03)

Metal-Insulator Transition in Disordered Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

Authors: A. Punnoose and A. M. Finkel’stein
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0511305
Science 310, 289 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Claudio Castellani, Universita’ di Roma.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Feb06_01)

Turbulent heat transport near critical points: Non-Boussinesq effects

Authors: Denis Funfschilling and Guenter Ahlers
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0601398
Recommended and Commentary by Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago.
The authors of this article have informed Professor Kadanoff that there is an error in part of their paper and that they are withdrawing their paper.  Professor Kadanoff therefore also has withdrawn his commentary on the paper.
(JCCM_Feb06_02)

Calculations for understanding a possible Supersolid state

1. Authors: B.K. Clark and D.M. Ceperley
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0512547

2. Authors: M. Boninsegni, N. Prokof’ev, B.Svistunov
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0512103
Recommended with a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan06_01)

Co-existence of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in a Heavy Fermion Compound

Authors: G. Knebel, D. Aoki, D. Braithwaite, B. Salce and J. Flouquet
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0512078
Recommended with a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan06_02)

Transport and Collective Dynamicsin Suspensions of Confined Swimming Particles

Authors: J.P. Hernandez-Ortiz, C.G. Stoltz, and M.D. Graham
Physical Review Letters, 95, 204501 (2005)
Recommended by Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Arizona.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan06_03)

3 He Films as Model Strongly Correlated Fermion Systems: Observation of a magnetic quantum critical point

Authors: M. Neumann, Andrew Casey, Jan Nyéki, Brian Cowan and John Saunders
Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Low Temperature Physics, Orlando, Florida. To be published by the American Institute of Physics (2006).
Recommended with a Commentary by Piers Coleman, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec05_01)

1. Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films / 2. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene / 3. Experimental Observation of Quantum Hall Effect and Berry’s Phase in Graphene

1. Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films
Authors: K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva and A. A. Firsov
Science 306, 666 (2004)
2. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene
Authors: K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jian, M. [...]

1. Fermion Superfluidity with Imbalance Spin Populations and the Quantum Phase Transition to the Normal State / 2. Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas

Authors: Martin W. Zwierlein, Andre Schirotzek, Christian H. S Chunck, and Wolfgang Ketterle
cond-mat/051197
2. Pairing and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas
Authors: Guthrie, B. Partidge, Wenhui Li, Ramsey I. Kamar, Yean-an Liao, Randall G. Hulet
cond-mat/0511752
Recommended with a commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec05_03)

Boson bunching in thermal clouds completes the wave-particle duality: Hanbury Brown Twiss Effect for Ultracold Quantum Gases

Authors: M. Schellekens, R. Hoppeler, A. Perrin, J. Viana Gomes, D. Boiron, A. Aspect and C. I. Westbrook
Sciencexpress: Science, vol. 310, page 648 (2005)
Recommended with a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov05_01)

Spin glasses: the sage continues!

Authors: References given at the end of the Commentary.
Recommended with a Commentary by JP Bouchaud, CEA, Saclay. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov05_02)

1. The Fulde-Ferrel, Larkin-Ovchinikov state in superconductors: Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity from electron spin domains / 2. Superconductivity in heavy fermion CeCoIn5 / 3. Texture in the superconducting order parameter of CeCoIn5 revealed by nuclear magnetic resonance / 4. Microscopic evidence of the FFLO state in CeCoIn5 probed by NMR

1. The Fulde-Ferrel, Larkin-Ovchinikov state in superconductors: Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity from electron spin domains
Authors: H.A. Radovan et al.
Nature 425, 51 (2005)
2. Superconductivity in heavy fermion CeCoIn5
Authors: Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov , Int. Conf. on Strongly Correlated
Electron Systems 2005 (SCES’05), Vienna, to be published in Physica B
3. Texture in the superconducting order parameter of CeCoIn5 revealed by nuclear [...]

Fate of the Josephson Effect in Thin-Film Superconductors

Authors: M. Hermele, G. Rafael, M. P. A. Fisher, P. M. Goldbart
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508301
Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Oct05_01)

Direct observation of Aharonov-Casher Phase

Authors: M. König, A. Tschetschetkin, E. M. Hankiewicz, J. Sinova, V. Hock, V. Daumer, M. Schäfer, C. R. Becker, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0508396
Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand  I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Oct05_02)

Dynamical Susceptibility of Glass Formers: Contrasting the Predictions of Theoretical Scenarios

Authors: Cristina Toninelli, Matthieu Wyart, Ludovic Berthier, Guilio Biroli and Jean Philippe Bouchaud
Phys Rev E 71, 041505 (2005)
Recommended and Commentary by Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Oct05_03)

1. Continuum Model for Polymorphism in Bacterial Flagella / 2. Model for Polymorphic Transitions in Bacterial Flagella

1. Continuum Model for Polymorphism in Bacterial Flagella
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 248101
2. Model for Polymorphic Transitions in Bacterial Flagella
Authors: S. V. Srigiriraju and T.R. Powers
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0509033
Recommended and a Commentary by Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Sep05_01)

Specific Heat Provides New Evidence for Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Quantum Magnets

1. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Cs2CuCl4
Authors: T. Radu, H. Wilhelm, V. Yushankhai, D. Kovrizhin, R. Coldea, Z. Tylczynski, T. Luhmann and F. Steglich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127202 (2005)
2. Bose-Einstein Condensation of S=1 Ni Spin Degrees of Freedom in NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2
Authors: V.S. Zapf, D. Zocco, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, A. Lacerda, C.D. Batista, and A. Paduan-Filho
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0505562
Recommended [...]

Rubber like Thermal Expansion, Elastic Constants and Compressibility in some Crystalline Solids

Authors: F. R. Drymiotis et al.
Phys. Rev. Letters, vol. 93, 025502-1-4 (2004)
Authors: C. Pantea et al.
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0509220
Recommended and Commentary by Chandra Varma, Bell laboratories and University of California, Riverside.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Sep05_03)

Metal-insulator transition in a weakly interacting many-electron system with localized single-particle states

Authors: D.M. Basko, I.L. Aleiner, and B.L. Altshuler
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0506617
Recommended and a Commentary by Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Aug05_01)

Approaching Unit Visibility for Control of a Superconducting Qubit with Dispersive Readout

Authors: Wallraf, D.I. Schuster, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, J. Majer, S.M. Girvin, and R.J. Schoelkopf
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502645
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 060501 (2005)
Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Aug05_02)

Development of ultra-high resolution photoemission spectroscopy in Japan

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)

1. Evidence for Charge Kondo Effect in Superconducting Ti-doped PbTe / 2. Superconductivity in Charge Kondo Systems

1. Evidence for Charge Kondo Effect in Superconducting Ti-doped PbTe
Authors: Y. Matsushita, H. Blum, T. H. Geballe, and I. R. Fisher
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409174
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157002 (2005)
2. Superconductivity in Charge Kondo Systems
Authors: Maxim Dzero and Jörg Schmalian
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409171
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157003 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_July05_01)

Mott Transition from Spin Liquid to Fermi Liquid in the Spin-Frustrated Organic Conductor k(ET)2Cu2(CN)3

Authors: Y. Kurosaki et. al.
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0504273
Recommended and Commentary by Matthew Fisher, KITP, Santa Barbara.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_July05_02)

Stalactite growth as a free-boundary problem: A geometric law and its platonic ideal

Authors: M.B. Short, et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018501 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT, and Wim van Saarloos, Institute-Lorentz, Leiden University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_June05_01)

First experimental measure of fractional statistics

Authors: F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0502406
Recommended and Commentary by Steven Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_June05_02)

1. Universal adiabatic dynamics across a quantum critical point / 2. Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition

1. Universal adiabatic dynamics across a quantum critical point
Authors:  Anatoli Polkovnikov
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0312144
2. Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition
Authors: Wojciech H. Zurek, Uwe Dorner, and Peter Zoller
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503511
Recommended and Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jun05_03)

Spatial Quantum Noise Interferometry in Expanding Ultracold Atom Clouds

Authors: S. Folling, F. Gerbier, A. Widera, O. Mandel, T. Gericke, and I. Bloch
Nature 434, 481-484 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Jason Ho, Ohio State University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May05_01)

1. The structure of foam cells: Isotropic Plateau polyhedra / 2. Analysis of 3-D network structures / 3. Structure of Random Foam

1. The structure of foam cells: Isotropic Plateau polyhedra
Authors: S. Hilgenfeldt, A. M. Kraynik, D. A. Reinelt, and J.M. Sullivan
Europhys. Lett. 67 (2004) 484
2. Analysis of 3-D network structures
Author: M.E. Glicksman
Philosophical Magazine 85 (2005) 3
3. Structure of Random Foam
Authors: A.M. Kraynik, D.A. Reinelt, and F. van Swol
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 20831
Recommended and Commentary by [...]

1. Efficient simulation of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems / 2. Renormalization algorithms for Quantum-Many Body Systems in two and higher dimensions

1. Efficient simulation of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems
Authors: G.Vidal
http://ArXiv.org/quant-ph/0310089
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 040502 (2004)
2. Renormalization algorithms for Quantum-Many Body Systems in two and higher dimensions
Authors: F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0407066
Recommended and Commentary by Steve White, University of California, Irvine. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May05_03)

Small and Large Scale Granular Statics

Authors: C. Goldenberg and I. Goldhirsch
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308603
Recommended and a Commentary by R. P. Behringer, Duke University, Durham, NC.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Apr05_01)

Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginsburg-Wilson paradigm

Authors: T. Senthil, L. Balents, S. Sachdev , A. Vishwanath, and M. P. A. Fisher
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312617
Physical Review B 70, 144407 (2004)
Recommended and Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Apr05_02)

Evidence for Quantized Displacement in Macroscopic Nanomechanical Oscillators

Authors: A. Gaidarzhy, G. Zolfagharkhani, R. L. Badzey, and P. Mohanty
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0503260
Recommended and Commentary by Al Migliori, Los Alamos National Labs. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Apr05_03)

Geometric origin of low-frequency excess density of vibrational modes in: weakly-connected amorphous solids

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)

The Statistical Mechanics of Travelling Salesman type Problems

Authors: David S. Dean, David Lancaster, and Satya N. Majumdar
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0411111
Recommended and Commentary by D. Dhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar05_02)

Hall effect indicates destruction of large Fermi surface at a heavy-fermion quantum critical point

Authors: S. Paschen, T. Luhmann, S. Wirth, P. Gegenwart, O. Trovarelli, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, P. Coleman, and Qimiao Si
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0411074
Recommended and Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar05_03)

Rabi Oscillation Revival Induced by Time Reversal: A Test of Mesoscopic Quantum Coherence

Authors: T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, P. Maioli, A. Auffeves, G. Nogues, M. Burne, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 010401 (2005)
Recommended and a Commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Feb05_01)

1. Pulled Fronts and the Reproductive Individual Fluctuation-regularized Front Propagation Dynamics / 2. An exactly soluble noisy traveling wave equation appearing in the problem of directed polymers in a random medium

1. Pulled Fronts and the Reproductive Individual Fluctuation-regularized Front Propagation Dynamics
Authors: Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406336
2. An exactly soluble noisy traveling wave equation appearing in the problem of directed polymers in a random medium
Authors: Éric Brunet and Bernard Derrida
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0409261
Recommended and Commentary by Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago. |  |
(JCCM_Feb05_02)

Ferromagnetic 0-p Junctions as Classical Spins.

Authors: M.L. Della Rocca, M. Aprili, T. Knotos, A. Gomez, and P. Spatkis
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0501459
Recommended and Commentary by J.R. Kirtley, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Feb05_03)

Superconductivity in the Insulating Phase above the Field-tuned Superconductor to Insulator Transition

Authors: Myles Steiner and Aharon Kapitulnik
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0406227
Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Kivelson, Stanford University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan05_02)

Single spin detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy

Authors: ID. Rugar, R. Budakian, H.J. Mamin, and B.W. Chui
Nature, 430, 329 (2004)
Recommended and Commentary by Teun Klapwijk, Delft University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan05_02)

Study on Unconventional Superconductors via Angle-resolved Specific Heat

Authors: Tuson Park (LANL), M. B. Salamon (UIUC)
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0411001
Recommended and Commentary by Al Migliori, Los alamos National Labs. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan05_03)

Universal scaling relation in high-temperature superconductors

Authors: C. C. Homes, S. V. Dordevic, M. Strongin, D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, Seiki Koymia Yoichi Ando, G. Yu, X. Zhao, M. Greven, D. N. Basov, T. Timusk
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0404216
Nature 430 (2004) 539
Recommended and a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec04_01)

Interacting electrons in disordered quantum wires: Dephasing and low-T transport

Authors: I.V. Gornyi1, A.D. Mirlin and D.G. Polyakov
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0407305
Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec04_02)

Metal-insulator-semiconductor optoelectronic fibres

Authors: Mehmet Bayindir et al.
Nature vol. 431, 826 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Claire Gmachl, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec04_03)

Viscous Entrainment from a Nozzle: Singular Liquid Spouts

Authors: W. W. Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 , 184502 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Raymond Goldstein, University of Arizona, Tucsan.
| View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov04_01)

Evidence of condensation of Fermion pairs in dilute Fermi gases near Feshbach resonance

1. Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pair
Authors: C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D.S. Jin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 220403. (2004)
2. Observation of the Pairing Gap in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
Authors: C. Chin, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, S. Jochim, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm
Science 20, August 2004
3. Heat Capacity of [...]

Superconductivity in a pyrochlore-related oxide KOs2O6

Authors: S. Yonezawa, Y. Muraoka, Y. Matsushita and Z. Hiroi
J.Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, 357 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Wataru Koshibae and Sadamichi Maekawa, Tohoku University, Sendai. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov04_03)

Quantum Phase Transitions out of the Heavy Fermi liquid

Authors: T. Senthil, S. Sachdev and M. Vojta
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0409033
Recommended and a Commentary by Matthew Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Oct04_01

Are all ferromagnetic phase transitions at low enough temperature first order? Case of Itinerant Ferromagnet ZrZn2

Authors: M. Uhlarz, C. Pfleiderer, and S. M. Hayden
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0408424
Recommended and Commentary by S. Paschen, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Oct04_02

Phyllotactic Patterns on Plants

Authors: P. D. Shipman and A. C. Newell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 168102 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Lorentz Institute, University of Leiden. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_Sep04_03

Observation of Superflow In Solid Helium

Authors: E. Kim and M H W Chan
Nature, vol. 427, 225 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by P.W. Anderson, Princeton University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Sep04_01)

Simple swimmer at low Reynold number: Three linked spheres

Authors: A. Najafi and R. Golestanian
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0402070
Phys. Rev. E 69, 062901 (2004)
Recommended and Commentary by Mehran Kardar, MIT. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Sep04_02)

1. Spin-current and spin accumulation in 2d spin-orbit coupled systems with impurities / 2. Spin-Hall effect in a disordered 2D electron-system

1. Spin-current and spin accumulation in 2d spin-orbit coupled systems with impurities
Authors: E.G. Mischenko, A. V. Shytov and B.I. Halperin
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406730
2. Spin-Hall effect in a disordered 2D electron-system
Authors: R. Raimondi and P. Schwab
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0408233
Recommended and a Commentary by Alexander Punnoose, Bell labs and Chandra Varma, Bell labs and University of California, Riverside. | View Commentary (pdf) [...]

Dissipation less Anomalous Hall Current in the Ferromagnetic Spinel CuCr2Se4-xBrx

Authors: Wei-Li Lee, Satoshi Watauchi, V.L. Miller, R.J. Cava and N.P. Ong
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0407765
Science 303, 1647, (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by J.R Cooper, Physics Department, University of  Cambridge.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Aug04_01)

One-dimensional bosons and Fermions in Optical traps

Authors: B. Paredes
Nature 429, 277 (2004);
M. Kohl et al.
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0406397 (and T. Stoferle et al. PRL 92 130403 (2004));
T. Kinoshita, T. Wenger and D.S. Weiss Science 2004 0:11007001-0.
Recommended and Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi,  University of  Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Aug04_02)

1. Dipolar spin correlations in classical pyrochlore magnets / 2. Power-law spin correlations in pyrochlore antiferromagnets

1. Dipolar spin correlations in classical pyrochlore magnets
Authors: S. V. Isakov, K. Gregor, R. Moessner, S. L. Sondhi
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0407004
2. Power-law spin correlations in pyrochlore antiferromagnets
Author: C. L.Henley
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0407005
Recommended and a Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Yale University
| View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Aug04_03)

Spin-Separation in Cyclotron Motion

Authors: L. P. Rokhinson, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0403645
Recommended and a Commentary by Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jul04_01)

Homogenous nodal superconductivity coexisting with inhomogeneous charge order in strongly underdoped Bi-2212

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)

Topological nature of polarization and charge pumping in ferroelectrics

Authors: Onoda, S. Murakami, and N. Nagaosa
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0403532
Recommended and a Commentary by David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University.  | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jul04_03)

Why Do Gallium clusters Have a Higher Melting Point than the Bulk?

Authors: S. Chacko, K. Joshi, D. G. Kanhere and S. A. Blundell
Phys. Rev, Lett. 92(13) 135506-1-4 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Steve Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jun04_01)

Superconductivity in diamond

Authors: E. A. Ekimov, V. A. Sidorov, E. D. Bauer, N. N. Mel’nik, N. J. Curro, J. D. Thompson, S. M. Stishov
http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404156
Nature 428, 542 (2004)
Recommended and Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of California, Davis. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jun04_02)

Hypermolecular Liquids – A new route to the formation of colloidal gels: short range attraction and long range repulsion

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)

Nanohydrodynamic simulations: An atomistic view of the Rayleigh Taylor instability

Authors: Kai Kadau, Tomothy C. Germann, Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou, Peter S. Lomgahl, Guy Dimonte, Brad Lee Holian, and Berni J. Alder
PNAS Vol 101 pages 5851-5855 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jun04_04)

Tunable Non-local Spin Control in a Coupled Quantum Dot System

Authors: N. J. Craig, J. M. Taylor, E. A. Lester, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, A. C. Gossard
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0404213
Recommended and a Commentary by Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers University | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May04_01)

Bias-Dependent Generation and Quenching of Defects in Pentacene

Authors: D. V. Lang, X. Chi, A. M. Sergent, A. P. Ramirez
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312721
Recommended and Commentary by Peter Littlewood, Cambridge University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May04_02)

The effect of impurities on the mobility of single crystal pentacene

Authors: Oana D. Jurchescu, Jacob Baas, Thomas T.M. Palstra
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0404130
Recommended and a Commentary by Don Monroe. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May04_03)

Unsteady Crack Motion and Branching in a Phase-Field Model of Brittle Fracture

Authors: A. Karma and A. E. Lobkovsky
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0404130
Recommended and a Commentary by Wim van Saarloos, Institute-Lorentz, Leiden University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_May04_04)

Hanbury-Brown Twiss correlations to probe the population statistics of GHz photons emitted by conductors

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)

Visualizing Chemical Reactions in solution by Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction

Authors: A.Plech, M. Wulff, S. Bratos, F. Mitloup, R. Vuilleumier, F. Schotte and P. A. Anfinrud.
Phy. Rev. Lett. 92 (12) 125505-1-4 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by: Steve Berry, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Apr04_02)

The Mystery of the Ring: Emission from Excitons in quantum wells. 1. Formation Mechanism and Low-Temperature Instability of Exciton Rings / 2. Charge Separation of Dense Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gases: Mechanism for Exciton Ring Pattern Formation

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 National High field Magnet Lab. Los Alamos | [...]

Ultrasensitive nanoelectromechanical mass detection

Authors: K.L. Ekinci, X.M.H. Huang, and M.L. Roukes
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0402528
Recommended and a Commentary by: Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Laboratory. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_March04_03)

Microwave oscillations of a nanomagnet driven by spin-polarized current

Authors: S.I. Kiselev, J.C. Sankey, I.N. Krivorotov, N.C. Emley, R.J. Schoelkopf, R.A. Buhrman, and D.C. Ralph
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0403100
Recommended and a Commentary by: Barbara Jones, IBM Research Labs., Almaden. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar04_02)

Supramolecular dendritic liquid quasi-crystals

Authors: Authors: X.Zeng et al.
Nature, Vol. 428, 571 (2004)
Recommended and a Commentary by Veit Elser, Cornell University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Mar04_01)

Signatures of spin-charge separation in double–quantum-wire tunneling

Authors: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Bertrand I. Halperin, Ophir M. Auslaender, Amir Yacoby
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0312159
Recommended and a Commentary by Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Feb04_01)

Nanoshell-mediated near-infrared thermal therapy of tumors under magnetic resonance guidance

Authors: L.R. Hirsch et al.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 13549–13554 (November 11, 2003)
Recommended and a Commentary by: Claire Gmachl, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Feb04_02)

High Resolution Study of Magnetic Ordering at Absolute Zero

Authors: M. Lee, A. Hussman, T.F. Rosenbaum and G. Aeppli
http://ArXiv.org/cond-mat/0402016
Recommended and a Commentary by: Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside and Bell laboratories. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Feb04_03)

Some Remarkable Developments in Bose-Einstein condensation of Molecules

A.  “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules”
Authors: S. Jochim, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, G. Hendl, S. Riedl, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, R. Grimm
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/302/5653/2101
B.  “A Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate Emerges From a Fermi Sea”
Authors: Markus Greiner, Cindy A. Regal, and Deborah S. Jin
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0311172
C.  “Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules”
Authors: M.W. Zwierlein , C.A. Stan. S.H. Schunck, S.M.F. Raupach, [...]

1. Single spin- and chiral-glass transition in vector spin glasses in three-dimensions / 2. Critical Behavior of the Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass

1. Single spin- and chiral-glass transition in vector spin glasses in three-dimensions
Authors: L. W. Lee and A. P. Young
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 227203 (2003)
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0302371
2. Critical Behavior of the Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass
Author: Ballesteros, et al.
Phys. Rev. B 62, 14237 (2000)
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0006211
Recommended and a Commentary by: David Huse, Princeton University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan04_02)

Universal and wide shear zones in granular bulk flow

Authors: Denis Fenistein, Jan Willem van de Meent, Martin van Hecke
http://arXiv.org/ cond-mat/0310409
Recommended and a Commentary by: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Jan04_03)

Coupled Electron-Phonon Modes in Optically Pumped Resonant Intersubband Lasers

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)

1. Conductance of a quantum wire in the Wigner crystal regime / 2. Non-unitary spin-charge separation in a one-dimensional fermion gas

1. Conductance of a quantum wire in the Wigner crystal regime
Authors: K. A. Matveev
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0310261
2. Non-unitary spin-charge separation in a one-dimensional fermion gas
Authors: V. V.Cheianov and M. B. Zvonarev
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0308470
Recommended and a Commentary by: Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec03_02)

Local manipulation of nuclear spin in a semiconductor quantum well

Authors: Poggio M. Steeves GM. Myers RC. Kato Y. Gossard AC. Awschalom DD
http://arXiv.org/ cond-mat/0306012
Physical Review Letters. 91, 207602 (2003)
Recommended and a Commentary by: Lu Sham, University of California, San Diego. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Dec03_03)

Thermodynamic spin magnetization in silicon inversion layers

Authors:O.Prus, Y.Yaish, M.Reznikov, U.Sivan and V.M.Pudalov
Phys. Rev. B67, 205407 (2003)
http://arXiv.org/ cond-mat/0209142
Recommended and a Commentary by: Teun Klapwijk, University of Delft. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov03_01)

Ultrasonics without a source-Thermal Fluctuation Correlations at Mhz Frequencies

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)

Conformal Field Theories in Random Domain and Stochastic Loewner Equations

Authors: Authors: Ilya A. Gruzberg and Leo P. Kadanoff
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0309292
Recommended and a Commentary by Dima Khlemnitski, University of Cambridge. | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov03_03)

Generalized Bose-Einstein phase transition in large-m component spin glasses

Authors: T. Aspelmeier and M. A. Moore
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310531v1
Recommended and a Commentary by Subir Sachdev, Yale University | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_Nov03_04)

Crystal Structure of the Sodium Cobaltate Deuterate Superconductor NaxCoO2.4xD2O

Authors: J. D. Jorgensen, M. Avdeev, D. G. Hinks, J. C. Burley, S. Short
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0307627
Recommended and a Commentary by Zachary Fisk, University of Florida, Tallahassee | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_oct03_04)

A Class of P,T-Invariant Topological Phases of Interacting Electrons

Authors: Michael Freedman, Chetan Nayak, Kirill Shtengel, Kevin Walker, Zhenghan Wang
http://arXiv.org/cond-mat/0307511
Recommended and a Commentary by Matthew Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara | View Commentary (pdf) |
(JCCM_oct03_03)

Environmental effects in the third moment of voltage fluctuations in a tunnel junction

Authors: B. Reulet, J. Senzier, D.E. Prober
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302084
Recommended and a Commentary by Carlo Beenakker, University of Leiden | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_oct03_02

Drag Reduction by Polymers in Wall Bounded Turbulence

Authors: Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, Itamar Procaccia and Vasil Tiberkevich
http://arXiv.org/nlin.CD/0307034.
Recommended and a Commentary by: Leo Kadanoff , University of Chicago. | View Commentary (pdf) |
JCCM_oct03_01

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