CANCELED - Topological Matter School

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When

2020/08/17 - 2020/08/21

Place

Miramar Palace, Donostia-San Sebastián

Organizers

Maia G. Vergniory, Aitzol García-Etxarri, Paloma Arroyo Huidobro, Titus Neupert, Alexander Altland

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The current crisis of Covid19 is forcing us to cancel the school.

The discovery of topological insulators, which require symmetry protection for their nontrivial ground-state, opened the door to the experimental realization of novel topological phases. Even if not all topological phases require symmetry protection, symmetries underlie the classification of topological phases of matter. In materials these phases can exhibit exotic behavior in their electronic response, such as topologically protected chiral/helical states, Weyl and Dirac fermions or Majorana excitations. The prospect of finding, measuring and exploiting these emerging electronic properties has driven broad searches of novel materials that can host them. However, the emergence of topological phases is not exclusive to the electronic response of materials and same topological classification applies not only to electronic bands but to any periodic linear system, both quantum and classical.

In this new edition of the Topological Matter School 2020 (August 17-21 2020 Donostia – San Sebastián) we will tackle the topological wave phenomena in systems beyond electronic materials, such as photonic crystals, phononic materials, metamaterials, acoustic systems and cold atoms among others. The covered topological effects in these systems will include Floquet states and non-hermitian systems implementations. Over one week, the school will provide extended lectures on these exciting topics by leading experts in both experiment and theory. A hands-on-session afternoon on GTPack software will also be part of the program.

While the school is primarily aimed at instructing master and graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers, more senior scientists who want to acquaint themselves with the subject of the school are also welcome.

More information is available on the school web page: http://tms.dipc.org