PR papers

Recently, I start to read papers about condensed matter physics. I find that Physical Review B is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020. As part of the celebration, in 2020 they are presenting a Milestone collection of papers that have made lasting contributions to condensed matter physics.

What a pleasant coincidence! I think how about I write down my commentary while reading. This will be a fun journey.

1 Theory of polarization of crystalline solids R. D. King-Smith and David Vanderbilt Phys. Rev. B 47, 1651 (1993)

2 Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set G. Kresse and J. Furthmuller Phys. Rev. B 54, 11169 (1996)

3 First-principles study of spontaneous polarization in multiferroic BiFeO3 J. B. Neaton, C. Ederer, U. V. Waghmare, N. A. Spaldin, and K. M. Rabe Phys. Rev. B 71, 014113 (2005)

4 Topological insulators with inversion symmetry Liang Fu and C. L. Kane Phys. Rev. B 76, 045302 (2007)