A mathematician’s look at topological insulators

by Gianluca Panati (Sapienza)

Thursday 11 Jan 2024, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

Rectorate/Building-Auditorium (GSSI)

Inspired by Kitaev's periodic table, we will show some mathematical models of topological insulators.

The essential aspects of such models, based on magnetic Schrödinger operators, is the presence of non-trivial topological indices (e.g. Chern number, Fu-Kane-Mele index,…) and, correspondingly, delocalization of electronic states and, on the phenomenological side, dissipationless quantum transport.

The approach in the seminar will be – as far as possible – introductory.

 

The talk will be streamed at

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84584329129?pwd=OENrT1JFQVJOTUJoeERLZ1g1YTdCZz09