Conference in French: Topology and mesoscopic quantum physics
by: Christophe Mora
7 January 2019 - 7 January 2019
France
Abstract:
Topology is a mathematical domain dealing with the continuous deformation of objects and the study of their invariants.
Its use in physics has always been very fruitful. In particular, it allows the identification of robust and universal structures. For some ten years now this use has increased a lot since physicists realized that topology plays a very important role in characterising electronic waves functions in solid materials.
The award of the 2016 Nobel prize has clearly set up this research.
We’ll discuss some notions of topology and present their relations with the application of quantum physics to electrons in solids. We’ll see how topology explains the appearance of robust phenomena in mesoscopic physics.
References :
Braiding Majorana zero modes using quantum dots, Corneliu Malciu, Leonardo Mazza, Christophe Mora, Phys. Rev. B 98, 165426 (2018)
Tunable Quantum Criticality and Super-ballistic Transport in a Charge Kondo Circuit, Z. Iftikhar, A. Anthore, A.K. Mitchell, F.D. Parmentier, U. Gennser, A. Ouerghi, A. Cavanna, C. Mora, P. Simon, F. Pierre, Science 360, 1315-1320 (2018)
Driven dissipative dynamics and topology of quantum impurity systems, Karyn Le Hur, Loïc Henriet, Loïc Herviou, Kirill Plekhanov, Alexandru Petrescu, Tal Goren, Marco Schiro, Christophe Mora, Peter P. Orth, C. R. Physique 2018
Topology is a mathematical domain dealing with the continuous deformation of objects and the study of their invariants.
Its use in physics has always been very fruitful. In particular, it allows the identification of robust and universal structures. For some ten years now this use has increased a lot since physicists realized that topology plays a very important role in characterising electronic waves functions in solid materials.
The award of the 2016 Nobel prize has clearly set up this research.
We’ll discuss some notions of topology and present their relations with the application of quantum physics to electrons in solids. We’ll see how topology explains the appearance of robust phenomena in mesoscopic physics.
References :
Braiding Majorana zero modes using quantum dots, Corneliu Malciu, Leonardo Mazza, Christophe Mora, Phys. Rev. B 98, 165426 (2018)
Tunable Quantum Criticality and Super-ballistic Transport in a Charge Kondo Circuit, Z. Iftikhar, A. Anthore, A.K. Mitchell, F.D. Parmentier, U. Gennser, A. Ouerghi, A. Cavanna, C. Mora, P. Simon, F. Pierre, Science 360, 1315-1320 (2018)
Driven dissipative dynamics and topology of quantum impurity systems, Karyn Le Hur, Loïc Henriet, Loïc Herviou, Kirill Plekhanov, Alexandru Petrescu, Tal Goren, Marco Schiro, Christophe Mora, Peter P. Orth, C. R. Physique 2018
Keywords
Topology, mesoscopic quantum physics