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Seminar "Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors"
31.01.2014 at 10:15
Source: the seminar will include most important topics from the book B. A. Bernevig and T.L. Hughes
Topological Insulators and Superconductors, Princeton University Press (2013).
List of topics:
1. Berry Phase (Chapter 2)
2. Hall Conductance and Chern Numbers (Chapter 3)
3. Time-Reversal Symmetry (Chapter 4)
4. Magnetic Field on the Square Lattice & Hall Conductance and Edge Modes: The
Bulk-Edge Correspondence (Chapters 5 & 6)
5. Simple Models for the Chern Insulator (Chapter 8)
6. Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Insulators (chapter 9)
7. Z2-Invariants (Chapter 10)
8. Quantum Hall Effect and Chern Insulators in Higher Dimensions & Dimensional
Reduction of 4-D Chern Insulators to 3-D Time-Reversal Insulators (Chapters 13 & 14)
9. Topological Superconductors in One and Two Dimensions (Chapter 16)
10. Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductors & Superconductivity and Magnetism in Proximity to Topological Insulator Surfaces (Chapters 17 & 18)
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