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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 99: Symposium on Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Focus on Topology and Transport

O 99.4: Invited Talk

Friday, March 11, 2016, 11:15–11:45, H1

Engineering Topological Quantum States: From 1D to 2D. — •Jelena Klinovaja — University of Basel, Switzerland

I will discuss low-dimensional condensed matter systems, in which topological properties could be engineered per demand. Majorana fermions can emerge in hybrid systems with proximity pairing in which the usually weak Rashba spin-orbit interaction is replaced by magnetic textures. I will discuss candidate materials such as semiconducting nanowires [1] and atomic magnetic chains [2]. One further goal is to go beyond Majorana fermions and to identify systems that can host quasiparticles with more powerful non-Abelian statistics such as parafermions in double wires coupled by crossed Andreev reflections [3,4]. Next, I will focus on 'strip of stripes model' consisting of weakly coupled one-dimensional wires [5-7], where interaction effects in the wires can be treated non-perturbatively via bosonization. Such systems can exhibit the integer or fractional quantum Hall effect, spin Hall effect, and anomalous Hall effect.

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