Topological Quantum Materials: Concepts, Models, and Phenomena

ISBN-13: 9789814968126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 274 str.

Gregory Tkachov

Opis

The book explores the connection between pioneering work on topological phases of matter and a flurry of activity that followed.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Topological Materials: Mind the Time Reversal 2. Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators 3. Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry 4. Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators andWeyl Semimetals 5. Surface Electron Transport and Magneto-Optics 6. Unconventional Designer Superconductors 7. Topological Superconductors and Majorana Modes

O autorze

Grigory Tkachov is a professor of theoretical physics at Augsburg University, Germany. He did his PhD at the Lifshitz Theoretical Physics Department of Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, and completed a habilitation in theoretical physics at Wuerzburg University, Germany. He has more than two decades of research experience at European academic institutions, including Lancaster University, Regensburg University, and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Dr. Tkachov’s research interests include topological phases of matter, non-equilibrium quantum many-body theory, superconductivity, and electromagnetism of solids.