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Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar: "Topological Floquet Drives and Unitaries"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
The Physics Department & The Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
Location
190 ESB
Date
Dec 9, 2019   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Rahul Roy, UCLA
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Originating Calendar
Physics - The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Much as in the case of (topological) insulators, topology plays an important role in periodically driven systems. They lead to interesting edge phenomena and bulk-edge connections which are quite different from static systems. A periodic table for non-interacting systems can be derived in much the same way as for band insulators. Moreover, topologically protected drives can arise in interacting systems. 

I will review some recent progress in the direction of establishing bulk edge connections and topological invariants for Floquet systems as well as in classifying local Unitary operators. 

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