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Topological Systems

Topological Systems

Investigations of topological concepts in condensed matter systems. Creation, detection and manipulation of topologically protected excitations.

Contributions to QuantumFrontiers

  • Workshops with international guests and visibility
  • Reoccurring lecture series aimed especially at PhDs on the topic of topological systems
  • Special lecture course (“Spezialvorlesungen”) on the topic of 'Topological Systems and Quantum Computing’
  • Investigations of topological concepts in Condensed Matter
  • Transport in quantum Hall systems, two-dimensional materials like graphene and its bilayers, cold atom systems
  • Physics of topological superconductors
  • Investigations of new transport phenomena associated with topological excitations (edge states, skyrmions, Majorana zero modes)
  • Detection and manipulation of non-abelian anyons

Collaborative Innovation

  • Twisted bilayer physics in cold atom systems (Recher TUBS, Santos LUH)
  • Electron optics setups in quantum Hall systems (Hohls PTB, Recher TUBS, Schumacher PTB)
  • Non-equilibrium properties of many-body systems described by tensor networks (Karrasch TUBS, Osborne LUH)
  • Raman spectroscopy with twisted light of chiral molecular liquids (Lemmens TUBS, Surzhykov PTB)

Scientific Output

  • Publications

TG Members

  • Involved Members and their Relevant Expertise
    Members Institution Relevant Expertise
    Patrik Recher, Leader TUBS Theory of Emergent Correlated Quantum Matter; Josephson Junctions; Twisted Bilayer Graphene; Twisted-bilayer-graphene physics in ultracold atoms in optical potentials
    Peter Silvestrov TUBS Theory of Emergent Correlated Quantum Matter
    Daniel Frombach TUBS Josephson Junctions, Topological Systems
    Hans Werner Schumacher PTB Macroscopic Quantum Standards; Precision current metrology of single electron pumps; NV-centre-based magnetometry
    Thomas Gerster PTB precision current metrology of single electron pumps
    Alexander Fernandez-Scarioni PTB Macroscopic Quantum Standards
    David Reifert PTB Macroscopic Quantum Standards
    Rolf Haug LUH Two-dimensional materials, Electrical Quantum Effects, Magnetic Quantum Effects
    Michael Oestreich LUH Spin and charge dynamics of single carriers in single semiconductor quantum dots
    Lina Bockhorn LUH Electrical Quantum Effects
    Lena Bittermann TUBS  
    Meinhard Schilling TUBS Electronic Quantum Metrology; Optical Voltage Standard - Fast Prototyping and HTS Superconductors
    Hansjörg Scherer PTB Anomolous Quantum Hall Effect with Topological Materials
    Tobias Osborne LUH Tensor networks for many body localized systems
    Ganesh Paul LUH / TUBS Tensor networks for many body localized systems
    Christoph Karrasch TUBS Tensor networks for many body localized systems
    Hendrik Weimer LUH Theory of Dynamics of Manybody Quantum Systems
    Luis Santos LUH Theory of Dynamics of Manybody Quantum Systems; Twisted-bilayer-graphene physics in ultracold atoms in optical potentials
    Fernando Dominguez TUBS  
    Wolfram Brenig TUBS strongly correlated electron systems, quantum transport, quantum critical systems, low dimensional quantum magnets
    Peter Lemmens TUBS Propagation of Twisted Light through Media: New Possibilities for Information Transfer; Spectroscopics of Topological Materials
    Andrey Surzhykov PTB Light-Matter Interfaces and Dynamics
    Yuriy Bidasyuk PTB Interaction of twisted light with Bose-Einstein condensates