R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the Week of February 26th through March 5th, 2017
Monday, February 27th, 2017
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
- Spiraling energy dispersion of arc states in Weyl semimetals
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: Chamberlin 5310
- Speaker: Anton Andreev, University of Washington
- Abstract: Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials in which the
valence and conduction bands touch at isolated points (Weyl nodes)
in the Brillouin zone. This gives rise to unusual electronic properties
of these materials. In particular, Weyl semimetals host peculiar
surface electron states whose Fermi lines have the form of open arcs.
I will show that static electric fields that are necessarily present
near the crystal surface result in a spiraling structure of Fermi arcs.
The winding angle of the spiral is controlled by the chirality of the Weyl
node and the magnitude of the surface potential. I will also discuss
magnetoresistance of a pn-junction in a Weyl semimetal. - Host: Levchenko
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
- No events scheduled