Short Lecture Course : "Introduction to Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases”, Prof. Keisuke Totsuka (YITP)

Dear All,

Prof. Keisuke Totsuka, of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, has kindly agreed to give a series of 4 lectures in OIST :

    "Introduction to Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases”

The lectures will introduce some of the mathematical background for topological phases of matter (subject of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics), and are intended particularly for graduate students or young researchers who would like to get to grips with this exciting field.

The lectures will take place this week, and will be held in B700 (Lab 3) :

•  Wednesday 24th @ 15:00-16:30
•  Thursday 25th @ 10:30-12:00 & 17:00-18:30
•  Friday 26th @ 10:30-12:00 

The topics covered will be :

1. A crash course on MPS/TPS　

(entanglement, area law, examples)

2. Topological phases

(short-range and long-range entanglement, examples)

3. Symmetry-protected topological phases

(edge states and projective representation, classification, bosonic SPT, fermionic SPT, detection)

4. Realization

(quantum magnets, Bose gases, Fermi gases)

Anybody interested is welcome to attend.

Best Regards,

The Theory of Quantum Matter Unit.