Vortragsreihe WISSENSCHAFT MIT WIRKUNG: Topology & Chirality

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Vortrag am 27.08.2021

Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Invitation
Date	Friday, 27 August 2021, 02:00 pm
Type of Event	Hybrid
Topic	Topology and Chirality
Presenter	Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
Summary	Topology, a mathematical concept, recently became a hot and truly transdisciplinary topic in condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry and materials science. All 200 000 inorganic materials were recently classified into trivial and topological materials: topological insulators, Dirac, Weyl and nodal-line semimetals, and topological metals [1]. The direct connection between real space: atoms, valence electrons, bonds and orbitals, and reciprocal space: bands and Fermi surfaces allows for a simple classification of topological materials in a single particle picture. More than 25% of all inorganic compounds host topological bands, which opens also an infinitive play-ground for chemistry [1,2]. Beyond Weyl and Dirac, new fermions can be identified in compounds that have linear and quadratic 3-, 6- and 8- band crossings that are stabilized by space group symmetries [3]. Crystals of chiral topological materials CoSi, AlPt and RhSi were investigated by angle resolved photoemission and show giant unusual helicoid Fermi arcs with topological charges (Chern numbers) of ±2 [4]. In agreement with the chiral crystal structure two different chiral surface states are observed. A quantized circular photogalvanic effect is theoretically possible in Weyl semimetals. However, in the multifold fermions with opposite chiralities where Weyl points can stay at different energies, a net topological charge can be generated. [5]. However, chirality is also of interest for chemists [6], especially because of the excellent catalytic performance of the new chiral Fermions AlPt and PdGa [7]. The open question is the interplay between Berry curvature, chirality, orbital moment and surface states.
Language	English
Link-Registration	Webex

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7. Qun Yang, et al., Advanced Materials 32 (2020) 1908518, Guowei Li, to be published