2018-2016

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Review and pedagogical articles are marked with a §§§.

  1. Thermal Hall effect in square lattice spin liquids: a Schwinger boson mean-field study, R. Samajdar, S. Chatterjee, S. Sachdev, and M. S. Scheurer, Physical Review B 99, 165126 (2019); arXiv:1812.08792; DOI.
  2. Gauge theory for the cuprates near optimal doping, S. Sachdev, H. D. Scammell, M. S. Scheurer, and G. Tarnopolsky, Physical Review B 99, 054516 (2019) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1811.04930; DOI.
  3. NMR relaxation in Ising spin chains, J. Steinberg, N. P. Armitage, F. H. L. Essler, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 99, 035156 (2019) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1810.11466; DOI.
  4. Quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism and critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator, A. Keesling, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, H. Pichler, Soonwon Choi, R. Samajdar, S. Schwartz, P. Silvi, S. Sachdev, P. Zoller, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M. D. Lukin, Nature 568, 207 (2019); arXiv:1809.05540; DOI.
  5. Quantum field theory for the chiral clock transition in one spatial dimension, S. Whitsitt, R. Samajdar, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 98, 205118 (2018); arXiv:1808.07056; DOI.
  6. Orbital currents in insulating and doped antiferromagnets, M. S. Scheurer and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 98, 235126 (2018); arXiv:1808.04826; DOI.
  7. A critical strange metal from fluctuating gauge fields in a solvable random model, A. A. Patel and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 98, 125134 (2018); arXiv:1807.04754; DOI.
  8. Triangular antiferromagnetism on the honeycomb lattice of twisted bilayer graphene, A. Thomson, S. Chatterjee, S. Sachdev, and M. S. Scheurer, Physical Review B 98, 075109 (2018); arXiv:1806.02837; DOI.
  9. Numerical study of the chiral Z3 quantum phase transition in one spatial dimension, R. Samajdar, Soonwon Choi, H. Pichler, M. D. Lukin, and S. Sachdev Physical Review A 98, 023614 (2018); arXiv:1806.01867; DOI.
  10. Z2 fractionalized phases of a solvable, disordered, t-J model, Wenbo Fu, Yingfei Gu, S. Sachdev, and G. Tarnopolsky, Physical Review B 98, 075150 (2018); arXiv:1804.04130; DOI.
  11. Confinement transition of Z2 gauge theories coupled to massless fermions: emergent QCD3 and SO(5) symmetry, S. Gazit, F. F. Assaad, S. Sachdev, A. Vishwanath, and Chong Wang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, E6987 (2018); arXiv:1804.01095; DOI.
  12. Thermoelectric signatures of the electron-phonon fluid in PtSn4, Chenguang Fu, T. Scaffidi, J. Waissman, Yan Sun, R. Saha, S. J. Watzman, A. K. Srivastava, Guowei Li, W. Schnelle, P. Werner, M. E. Kamminga, S. Sachdev, S. S. P. Parkin, S. A. Hartnoll, C. Felser, and J. Gooth, arXiv:1802.09468; DOI.
  13. Magnetic-field Induced Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Vortex Halo, S. D. Edkins, A. Kostin, K. Fujita, A. P. Mackenzie, Hiroshi Eisaki, Shin-Ichi Uchida, S. Sachdev, M. J. Lawler, Eun-Ah Kim, J. C. Seamus Davis, and M. H. Hamidian, Science 364, 976 (2019); arXiv:1802.04673; DOI.
  14. §§§ Topological order, emergent gauge fields, and Fermi surface reconstruction, S. Sachdev, partly based on lectures at the 34th Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics: New Horizons in Quantum Matter, December 27, 2016 - January 5, 2017, Reports on Progress in Physics 82, 014001 (2019); arXiv:1801.01125; DOI.
  15. Magnetotransport in a model of a disordered strange metal, A. A. Patel, J. McGreevy, D. P. Arovas, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review X 8, 021049 (2018); arXiv:1712.05026; DOI.
  16. Topological order in the pseudogap metal, M. S. Scheurer, S. Chatterjee, Wei Wu, M. Ferrero, A. Georges, and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, E3665 (2018); arXiv:1711.09925; DOI.
  17. Pseudogap and Fermi surface topology in the two-dimensional Hubbard model, Wei Wu, M. S. Scheurer, S. Chatterjee, S. Sachdev, A. Georges, and M. Ferrero, Physical Review X 8, 021048 (2018); arXiv:1707.06602; DOI.
  18. Critical behavior of an impurity at the boson superfluid-Mott insulator transition, S. Whitsitt and S. Sachdev, Physical Review A 96, 053620 (2017); arXiv:1709.04919; DOI.
  19. Fermionic spinon theory of square lattice spin liquids near the Néel state, A. Thomson and S. Sachdev, Physical Review X 8, 011012 (2018); arXiv:1708.04626; DOI.
  20. Quantum quench of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, A. Eberlein, V. Kasper, S. Sachdev, and J. Steinberg, Physical Review B 96, 205123 (2017); arXiv:1706.07803; DOI.
  21. Thermal diffusivity and chaos in metals without quasiparticles, M. Blake, R. A. Davison, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review D 96, 106008 (2017) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1705.07896; DOI.
  22. Intertwining topological order and broken symmetry in a theory of fluctuating spin density waves, S. Chatterjee, S. Sachdev, and M. S. Scheurer, Physical Review Letters 119, 227002 (2017); arXiv:1705.06289; DOI.
  23. Thermal and electrical transport in metals and superconductors across antiferromagnetic and topological quantum transitions, S. Chatterjee, A. Eberlein, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 96, 075103 (2017); arXiv:1704.02329; DOI.
  24. Quantum butterfly effect in weakly interacting diffusive metals, A. A. Patel, D. Chowdhury, S. Sachdev, and B. Swingle, Physical Review X 7, 031047 (2017); arXiv:1703.07353; DOI.
  25. Insulators and metals with topological order and discrete symmetry breaking, S. Chatterjee and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 95, 205133 (2017); arXiv:1703.00014; DOI.
  26. Quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions with quenched disorder: quantum critical states with interactions and disorder, A. Thomson and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 95, 235146 (2017); arXiv:1702.04723; DOI.
  27. Spectrum of the Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory on the torus, S. Whitsitt, M. Schuler, L.-P. Henry, A. M. Läuchli, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 96, 035142 (2017) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1701.03111; DOI.
  28. Holographic quantum matter, S. A. Hartnoll, A. Lucas, and S. Sachdev, arXiv:1612.07324; Weblink.
  29. Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography, R. A. Davison, Wenbo Fu, Yingfei Gu, A. Georges, K. Jensen, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 95, 155131 (2017) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1612.00849; DOI.
  30. Quantum chaos on a critical Fermi surface, A. A. Patel and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 1844 (2017); arXiv:1611.00003; DOI.
  31. Supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, Wenbo Fu, D. Gaiotto, J. Maldacena, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review D 95, 026009 (2017); arXiv:1610.08917; DOI.
  32. Entanglement entropy of the large N Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory, S. Whitsitt, W. Witczak-Krempa, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 95, 045148 (2017); arXiv:1610.06568; DOI.
  33. Holography of the Dirac Fluid in graphene with two currents, Yunseok Seo, Geunho Song, Philip Kim, S. Sachdev, and Sang-Jin Sin, Physical Review Letters 118, 036601 (2017) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1609.03582. (Subject graphene); DOI.
  34. Fermi surface reconstruction and drop of Hall number due to spiral antiferromagnetism in high-Tc cuprates, A. Eberlein, W. Metzner, S. Sachdev, and H. Yamase, Physical Review Letters 117, 187001 (2016); arXiv:1607.06087. (Subject nfl) ; DOI.
  35. A fractionalized Fermi liquid with bosonic chargons as a candidate for the pseudogap metal, S. Chatterjee and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 94, 205117 (2016); arXiv:1607.05727. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  36. Spectrum of conformal gauge theories on a torus, A. Thomson and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 95, 205128 (2017); arXiv:1607.05279. (Subject dcp); DOI.
  37. Shear viscosity at the Ising-nematic quantum critical point in two dimensional metals, A. A. Patel, A. Eberlein, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 95, 075127 (2017); arXiv:1607.03894. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  38. Spin density wave order, topological order, and Fermi surface reconstruction, S. Sachdev, E. Berg, S. Chatterjee, and Y. Schattner, Physical Review B 94, 115147 (2016); arXiv:1606.07813. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  39. Electronic quasiparticles in the quantum dimer model: density matrix renormalization group results, Junhyun Lee, S. Sachdev, and S. R. White, Physical Review B 94, 115112 (2016); arXiv:1606.04105. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  40. §§§ The novel metallic states of the cuprates: Fermi liquids with topological order and strange metals, S. Sachdev and D. Chowdhury, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 12C102 (2016); arXiv:1605.03579. (Subjects nfl, deconfine, dcp); DOI.
  41. Hyperscaling violation at the Ising-nematic quantum critical point in two dimensional metals, A. Eberlein, I. Mandal, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 94, 045133 (2016); arXiv:1605.00657. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  42. Hydrodynamic theory of thermoelectric transport and negative magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals, A. Lucas, R. Davison, and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 9463 (2016); arXiv:1604.08598; DOI.
  43. Transition from the Z2 spin liquid to antiferromagnetic order: spectrum on the torus, S. Whitsitt and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 94, 085134 (2016); arXiv:1603.05652. (Subject dcp); DOI.
  44. Numerical study of fermion and boson models with infinite-range random interactions, Wenbo Fu and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 94, 035135 (2016); arXiv:1603.05246. (Subjects ads, nfl); DOI.
  45. Universal Signatures of Quantum Critical Points from Finite-Size Torus Spectra: A Window into the Operator Content of Higher-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories, M. Schuler, S. Whitsitt, L.-P. Henry, S. Sachdev, and A. M. Läuchli, Physical Review Letters 117, 210401 (2016); arXiv:1603.03042. (Subject dcp); DOI.
  46. Superconductivity from a confinement transition out of a FL* metal with Z2 topological and Ising-nematic orders, S. Chatterjee, Y. Qi, S. Sachdev, and J. Steinberg, Physical Review B 94, 024502 (2016) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1603.03041. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  47. Confinement transition to density wave order in metallic doped spin liquids, A. A. Patel, D. Chowdhury, A. Allais, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 93, 165139 (2016); arXiv:1602.05954. (Subjects vbs, dcp); DOI.