2016 Nobel prize in physics: D. Thouless and topology of quantum transport |
TYPE | Colloquium |
Speaker: | Prof. Yosi Avron |
Affiliation: | Technion |
Date: | 02.01.2017 |
Time: | 14:30 - 15:30 |
Location: | Lidow Rosen Auditorium (323) |
Video: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... |
Abstract: | The 2016 Physics Nobel prize was awarded to Thouless and Kosterlitz for the discovery of a new kind of phase transition and to Thouless and Haldane for the discovery of the topological meaning of the Quantum Hall conductance. I shall describe Thouless original finding that the Hall conductance is related to a topological invariant known as Chern number. No background in topology or condensed matter physics will be assumed. |