PIRSA:19040050

The world as topological insulator

Kaplan, D. (2019). The world as topological insulator. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19040050

Kaplan, David. The world as topological insulator. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 17, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19040050 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19040050,
            doi = {10.48660/19040050},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19040050},
            author = {Kaplan, David},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {The world as topological insulator},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:19040050 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

David B. Kaplan

University of Washington

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Over the years, many rich ideas have been exchanged between particle theory and condensed matter theory, such as particle/hole theory, superconductivity and dynamical symmetry breaking, universality and critical phenomena. Here I discuss the interesting case of how the two fields converged independently along different paths on the physics of symmetry-protected topological order: condensed matter physicists motivated by the quantum Hall effect and superconductivity, the particle physicists driven by the desire to understand anomalies and chirality, and to compute QCD and supersymmetry on a lattice -- where the Quantum Hall effect, the Quantum Spin Hall effect and Majorana surface modes have all played a role in practical computations since the 1990s.