Topology of Bands in Solids : From Insulators to Dirac Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2014-08-11 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
Bloch theory describes the electronic states in crystals whose energies are distributed as bands over the Brillouin zone. The electronic states corresponding to a (few) isolated energy band(s) thus constitute a vector bundle. The topological properties of these vector bundles provide new characteristics of the corresponding electronic phases. We review some of these properties in the case of (topological) insulators and semi-metals.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.1867,
title = {Topology of Bands in Solids : From Insulators to Dirac Matter},
author = {David Carpentier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1867},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Talk at Seminaire Poincare (Bourbaphy), Paris, June 2014, www.bourbaphy.fr