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. M. Levenson-Falk, C. M. Marcus, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West.
Phys. Rev. B (RC) 79, 241304(R) (2009)

3. Alternation and interchange of e/4 and e/2 period interference oscillations as evidence for filling factor 5/2 non-Abelian quasiparticles
Authors: R.L. Willett, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West.
arXiv:0911.0345

Recommended with a commentary by Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute, Israel. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_JULY2010_01

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 Zumer, University of Ljubljana. | View Commentary (pdf) |

JCCM_JULY2010_02

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, Paris | View Commentary (pdf) |

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