2018/04/17 by R. Shankar, Shankar, R. · 1 voice · 2 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.06471
openalex publication_date 2018/04/17 · arxiv published 2018/04/17 · arxiv updated 2018/04/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
These lecture notes were prepared for a mixed audience of students, postdocs and faculty from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India and neighboring institutions, particularly the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I am not an expert on the subject and during the few years I spent working on the Quantum Hall effect, I had not fully appreciated that it was part of a family of topological insulators. It was a pleasure to dig a little deeper into this subject and to share its wonders with others. In preparing these lectures I relied heavily on the help of Ganpathy Murthy (UKy) and a very helpful conversation with Steve Kivelson (Stanford.) I am of course responsible any errors despite their efforts. I also relied on some excellent Powerpoint slides of various talks. I have furnished a few choice references at the end and very few references to original papers. I cover only d=1 and d=2.