Description of the workshop

Triggered by recent studies on topological insulators, the concept of topology has become one of the major building blocks of modern condensed matter physics. Looking back to history, the importance of this concept was realized through efforts to understand unexpected experimental results in phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect, vortices in superconductivity and so on. On the other hand, it is interesting to note that, in the realm of mathematics, the corresponding framework such as cohomology, characteristic class, K-theory was already developed during the early 20th century, way before the development in physics, but now plays an essential role in explaining experiments. However, the situation is still not satisfactory. This is because, with only a few exceptions, it is difficult to directly “measure the topology” in topological states. The exception lies at the boundary. The real surprise is that one can observe the topology through edge states as low energy boundary modes living near the system edges as well as local states near impurities. These edge states/boundary states are physical observables. The enormous success of the ARPES (angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy) experiments is the key achievement in the recent big bang in the topological business. The surface sensibility of the ARPES enables us to directly see the topology as a number of edge channels. Indeed, topology and edge states are directly related. This is the bulk-edge correspondence. Topology is not a mere concept but a real observable! With this breakthrough, we can recast a new understanding to many of localized modes in quite different areas such as cold atoms, photonics, solid states, and even classical mechanics. Some of them are traditional local states/modes and might be well known. But they could be well understood by this new way of thinking. THINK DIFFERENT topologically through the bulk-edge correspondence. The workshop is for people in different fields to get together and discuss topological phases in solids, atoms, light, and more. Let’s look at physics from boundaries and impurities, which are geometrical perturbations for the bulk. Everyone interested in topological phases/materials/lights is welcome. Target systems can be topological materials (topological insulators, (anomalous) quantum (spin/valley) Hall states, graphene, silicene, anisotropic superconductors, Majorana/Andreev bound states), photonics crystals, light, topological mechanics, and more. Needless to say, people working in topological condensed matter (theories and experiments) without any edge states are welcome, of course. We are planning to have a mathematician as a speaker in order to make an even larger hop, between physics and pure mathematics.

This workshop is a continuation of the workshop 2015 (BEC2015), in Tokyo last year that we enjoyed a lot. Then we further try to get together again and discuss new developments. Also hope to get interdisciplinary interaction among various areas from physics to math by the keyword “BEC”.

The workshop is organized as a YITP workshop supported by Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University.

Organizers/advisers
Hideo Aoki (AIST/Univ. of Tokyo)
Takahiro Fukui (Ibaraki Univ.)
* Yasuhiro Hatsugai (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Tohru Kawarabayashi (Toho Univ.)
Akio Kimura (Hiroshima Univ.)
Masatoshi Sato (YITP, Kyoto Univ.)
Yoshiro Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.)
(alphabetical, * chair)

Local organizers
Ken-ichiro Imura (Hiroshima Univ.)
Toshikaze Kariyado (NIMS)
Isao Maruyama (Fukuoka Inst. Tech.)
Takashi Oka (MPIPKS-Dresden)

Secretary in charge
Haruka Hasaba (YITP, Kyoto Univ.)

Venue/travel
Panasonic Auditorium
Yukawa Institute for theoretical physics
Kyoto University
Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
Access details

Registration
For registration, please send the following information to the address below. Participation in the workshop is free. We ask you to register even if you do not plan to make a presentation.
We also accept on-site registration (free). Everyone is welcome! Just come and join us.

workshop2016@rhodia.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp

Subject: registration BEC2016

First Name:
Family Name:
Institution:
Address:
Email:
Additional information:
Presentation: Yes/No, Poster
Title:
Conference dinner (Sep.28, 4000 JPY): Yes/No
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Speakers
Invited speakers
H. Aoki (Univ. Tokyo & AIST)
L. Bucciantini (MPI-PKS, Dresden)
R. Desbuquois (ETH)
M. Furuta (Univ. Tokyo)
T. Fukui (Ibaraki Univ.)
K. Hashimoto (Osaka Univ.)
Y. Hatsugai (Univ. Tsukuba)
J. Ohe (Toho Univ.)
K. Imura(Hiroshima Univ.)
T. Kariyado (NIMS)
T. Kawarabayashi (Toho Univ.)
N. Kawakami (Kyoto Univ.)
A. Kimura (Hiroshima Univ.)
G. Montambaux (Université Paris-Sud )
H. Miyake (JQI, NIST & Univ. Maryland)
I. Maruyama (Fukuoka Inst.Tech.)
M. Nakagawa (Kyoto Univ.)
Y. Ohtsubo (Osaka Univ.)
T. Ohtsuki (Sophia Univ.)
S. Sugawa (JQI, NIST & Univ. Maryland)
M. Sato (Kyoto Univ.)
M. Solijacic( MIT)
Y. Tanaka (Nagoya Univ.)
Y. Takahashi(Kyoto Univ.)
K. Totsuka (Kyoto Univ.)
Y. Takane (Hiroshima Univ.)
V. Vitelli (Leiden Univ.)
B. Yang (MPI-Dresden)
K. Yonekura (IPMU, Univ. Tokyo)
H. Zhai (Tsinghua Univ.)
(alphabetical)

This workshop is organized as a YITP workshop and supported by YITP and also partly supported by KAKENHI from JSPS: “Physics of bulk-edge correspondence and its universality in topological phases: From solid state physics to cold atoms” .