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Event Number 2295
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Physics Department Colloquium
Topological insulators and topological superconductors
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Speaker: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
- Abstract: Recently, a new class of topological states has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed. The topological insulators have an insulating gap in the bulk, but have topologically protected edge or surface states due to the time reversal symmetry. Similarly, topological superconductors or superfluids have novel edge or surface states consisting of Majorana fermions. In this talk, I shall review the recent theoretical and experimental progress in the field, and focus on a number of outstanding issues, including the quantized anomalous Hall effect, quantized magneto-electric effect, the topological Mott insulators and the search for topological superconductors and Majorana fermions.
- Host: Coppersmith
- Poster: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/twap/posters/2012/2295.pdf
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- Video: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/vod/2012/04/27.html
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