Symmetry-Protected Topological phases and Duality

Event Start:
2024-11-22T15:00:00
Event End:
2024-11-22T16:00:00
Event Information:

Symmetry-Protected Topological (SPT) phases are, as the name suggests, topological phases without any conventional local order parameter, but distinct from the trivial phase only in the presence of a certain symmetry. The concept was first proposed by Gu and Wen in 2009 as a generalization of topological insulators discovered earlier. However, the prototypical example of the SPT phases, the Haldane gap phase in odd-integer spin chains, was discovered much earlier in the 1980s.

Event Location:
BRIM 311
Speaker:
Masaki Oshikawa (U Tokyo)
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Add to Calendar Event Start: 2024-11-22T15:00:00 Event End: 2024-11-22T16:00:00 Symmetry-Protected Topological phases and Duality Event Information: Symmetry-Protected Topological (SPT) phases are, as the name suggests, topological phases without any conventional local order parameter, but distinct from the trivial phase only in the presence of a certain symmetry. The concept was first proposed by Gu and Wen in 2009 as a generalization of topological insulators discovered earlier. However, the prototypical example of the SPT phases, the Haldane gap phase in odd-integer spin chains, was discovered much earlier in the 1980s. Event Location: BRIM 311

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