Topology in Physics
Proseminar in Theoretical Physics ETH Zurich - SS 06
Date Topics Advisor
03/04 Lie Algebras: a crash course
Cyril Stark
Dr. Urs Wenger
03/04 Goldstone bosons and the Higgs mechanism
Stefan Pfenninger
Dr. Stefan Fredenhagen
10/04 Magnetic monopoles: Dirac and Polyakov-t'Hooft
Philip Grech
Dr. Urs Wenger
24/04 Dislocation in crystals
David Gablinger
Urs Aeberhard
08/05 Solitons
Saemi Lang
Dr. Ilka Brunner
08/05 Solitons in density wave systems [8th semester]
Mathias Ritzmann
Urs Aeberhard
15/05 Vortices
Thomas Eggel
Dr. Stefan Fredenhagen
22/05 Berezinskii Kosterlitz Thouless transition in spin systems [8th semester]
Lucas Lombriser
Dr. Munehisa Matsumoto
29/05 Berry phase I: Mathematical Concepts
Simon Wood
Dr. Sebastian Pilgram
29/05 Berry phase II: The Aharonov-Bohm Effect
Oliver Pfaeffli
Dr. Sebastian Pilgram
12/06 Berry phase III: Berry Phase and Bloch States [8th semester]
Juan Carlos Andresen
Dr. Sebastian Pilgram
19/06 Superfluidity and winding numbers
Barbara Theiler
Dr. Lode Pollet
19/06 Introduction to quantum computing
Lukas Gamper
Dr. Lode Pollet
26/06 Topologically protected quantum computing (Abelian)
Bojan Skerlak
Dr. Helmut Katzgraber
26/06 Quantum computing: implementations exploiting topology [8th semester]
Mario Berta
Dr. Fabricio Albuquerque
03/07 Braid group statistics in quantum mechanics
Klaus Jaeger
Dr. Walid Abou Salem
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