Journal Club WS 2011/12: Topological Insulators
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Jan von Delft <vondelft@lmu.de>
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schollwöck <schollwoeck@lmu.de>
Dr. Oleg Yevtushenko <Oleg.Yevtushenko@physik.lmu.de>
Rules:
The speaker will be chosen at random!
Every participant should read the paper carefully in advance.
Papers:
• 30.11.2011 - 12:45 - A449
Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 405 (1982)
Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional Periodic Potential
by Thouless, Kohmoto, Nightingale and den Nijs (TKNN).
Additional Reading:
• TKNN:
• Notes by Jan von Delft on a lecture given in Langeoog by Alex Altland
on the connection between the Hall conductivity and the Chern number:
PDF (see p. 10 and onward).
• Physics Reports 110, 279 (1984) Quantized Hall effect in two-dimensional periodic potentials by Thouless
• Phys. Rev. B 31, 3372 (1985) Quantized Hall conductance as a topological invariant by Niu, Thouless and Wu
• Annals of Physics (New York) 160, 343 (1985) Topological invariant and the quantization of the Hall conductance by Kohmoto
• Quantum Hall effect, Ed. by Michael Stone, Singapore, World Scientific, 1992. Chapter 1 (IQH)
• Landau Lifshitz 9, Sect. 60: Symmetry of states of Bloch electrons in a magnetic field
• Recent related reviews:
Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 1057 (2011)
Topological insulators and superconductors by Qi and Zhang,
Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045 (2010)
Colloquium: Topological insulators by Hasan and Kane.
Time and venue:
Wednesdays at 12:45 (empty slots of the LS-von-Delft group-meeting)
or
Tuesday at 14:30 (empty slots of the TMP lecture course QFT-CM).
Created: 16.11.2011 - Last Update: 28.11.2011