Topology in condensed matter systems

Instructor:
張明哲 

Main reference: Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors, by B.A. Bernevig (2013)

Grading: Homework (70%); term report (30%)

Required background: Quantum mechanics, solid state physics

Introduction:

Topological Insulators, by C. Kane and J.E. Moore, Physics World 24, 32 (2011).

Some history, a ppt

 

First semester

        01 Review of Bloch theory
        02 Review of Berry Phase
        03 Berry curvature of Bloch states

        04 Charge polarization and quantum Hall effect

        05 1D spin pump

        06 2D topological insulator

        07 3D topological insulator

        08 Effective Hamiltonian of topological insulator

        09 Electromagnetic response of surface states

        10 More about 4 by 4 Hamiltonian matrix (optional, except Subsec.A)

        11 Dimensional reduction (optional)

        App.

        Periodic table ppt

Second semester

        12 Point degeneracy between energy bands

        13 Weyl semi-metal

        14 Electromagnetic response of Weyl semi-metal

        15 Review of BCS theory

        16 1D p-wave superconductor

        17 2D p-wave superconductor

        18 Superconductor pairing with spin

        19 Topological superconductor with time-reversal symmetry

        20

        21 Periodic table: Basics

        22 Periodic table: Dirac Hamiltonian representative

 

References:

    lecture notes

An introduction to topological phases of electrons, by J. Moore at UC Berkeley

Les Houches: Topological aspects of condensed matter physics, 2014

Boulder school for condensed matter and materials physics, 2016

    books

Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics, by B.F. Schutz (1980)

Geometry, Topology and Physics, 2nd ed, by M. Nakahara (2003)

Topological Insulators: Dirac Equation in Condensed Matters, by S.Q. Shen (2013)

Topological Insulators, Ed M. Franz and L. Molenkamp (2013)

Topological Insulators Fundamentals and Perspectives, by F. Ortman et al (2015)

A Short Course on Topological Insulators, by J. Asboth, L. Oroszlany, and A. Palyi (2016)

Bulk and Boundary Invariants for topological insulators: From K-theory to physics, by E. Prodan and H. Schulz-Baldes (2016)

Berry Phases in Electronic Structure Theory: Electric Polarization, Orbital Magnetization and Topological Insulators, by David Vanderbilt (2018).

Ьр①Жロю絶縁体・超伝導体, by 野村 健太郎 (2016)

    talks

Topological Band Theory and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, by C. Kane at KITP, Dec 8, 2008

Topological Insulators and Superconductors, by S.C. Zhang at Stanford, Sep 10, 2009

Physics@FOM Veldhoven, by C. Kane, Jan 2012

Topological Insulators and Superconductors (KITP program, Sep 19 - Dec 16, 2011)

Topology and Quantum Phases of Matter (Kickoff Workshop, Aug 2018)

special topics

nodal material

Dirac materials, by T.O. Wehling, A.M. Black-Schaffer, and A.V.Balatsky, Advances in Physics, 63, 1, (2014).

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids, by N.P. Armitage, E.J. Mele, and Ashvin Vishwanath, Rev Mod Phys, 90, 015001 (2018)

topological superconductor

Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation, by Chetan Nayak, Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern, Michael Freedman, and Sankar Das Sarma,

Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1083 (2008).

Random-matrix theory of Majorana fermions and topological superconductors, by C.W.J. Beenakker, Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1037 (2015).

interacting system

Zoo of quantum-topological phases of matter, by Xiao-Gang Wen, Rev. Mod. Phys, 89, 041004 (2017).

Interacting Topological Insulators: a review, by Stephan Rachel, arXiv:1804.10656.

topological photonics

Quantum spin Hall effect of light, K. Y. Bliokh, D. Smirnova, and F. Nori, Science 348, 1448 (2015).

Topological Photonics, Ozawa et al, arxiv: 1802.04173.

 more links

  https://topocondmat.org/

http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/Xtopolinsu.html