Boulder School 2016: Lecture Notes | Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

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*Student notes by Victor Albert unless otherwise noted

Week 1: July 11-15
July 11	N. Read	Quantum Hall Effect I Background Reading: N. Read, “Topological Phases”, Physics Today: 38-43 (July 2013) N. Read & D. Green, “Paired states of fermions in two dimensions with breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetries and the fractional quantum Hall effect”, Physical Review B61: 267-297 (2000) Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
	C. Nayak	Effective Field Theories of Topological Phases & Quantum Computation I Background Reading: M. Freedman, C. Nayak, K. Shtengel, K. Walker, and Z. Wang, “A class of P, T-invariant topological phases of interacting electrons”, Annals of Physics 310: 428-492 (2004) A.Yu. Kitaev, “Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons”, Annals of Physics 303: 2-30 (2003) J. Cano, M. Cheng, M. Mulligan, C. Nayak, E. Plamadeala, and J. Yard, “Bulk-Edge Correspondence in 2 + 1-Dimensional Abelian Topological Phases”, Preprint C. Nayak, S.H. Simon, A. Stern, M. Freedman, and S. Das Sarma, “Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation”, Preprint Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
	C. Kane	Topological Insulators I Background Reading: M.Z. Hasan & C. Kane, “Colloquium: Topological Insulators”, Reviews of Modern Physics 82: 3045-3067 (2010) C. Kane, Topological Band Theory and the Z2 Variant (Chapter one) Homework Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
July 12	N. Read	Quantum Hall Effect II Student Notes	Notes 2	Video
	C. Nayak	Effective Field Theories of Topological Phases & Quantum Computation II Student Notes	Notes 2	Video
	C. Kane	Topological Insulators II Student Notes	Notes 2	Video
July 13	N. Read	Quantum Hall Effect III Student Notes	Notes 3	Video
	P. Jarillo-Herrero	Quantum Hall in Graphene & Beyond I Presentation Student Notes	Notes	Video
	C. Kane	Topological Insulators III Student Notes	Notes 3	Video
	A. Turner	Entanglement I Background Reading: Book section Entanglement Readings Table of Contents Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
July 14	N. Read	Quantum Hall Effect IV Student Notes	Notes 4	Video
	C. Nayak	Effective Field Theories of Topological Phases & Quantum Computation III Student Notes		Video
	P. Jarillo-Herrero	Quantum Hall in Graphene & Beyond II Student Notes		Video
July 15	C. Kane	Topological Insulators IV Student Notes	Notes 4	Video
	C. Nayak	Effective Field Theories of Topological Phases & Quantum Computation IV Student Notes	Notes 4	Video
	C. Kane	Topological Insulators V Student Notes
	A. Turner	Entanglement II Student Notes	Notes 2	Video
Week 2: July 18-22
July 18	A. Ludwig	Classification of Topological Insulators I Supporting Reference	Notes 1	Video
	A. Vishwanath	Weyl semimetals & SPT phases I Supporting References Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
	F. Von Oppen	Majoranas I Additional Notes	Notes 1	Video
July 19	A. Ludwig	Classification of Topological Insulators II	Notes 2	Video
	A. Vishwanath	Weyl semimetals & SPT phases II Student Notes	Notes 2	Video
	F. Von Oppen	Majoranas II	Notes 2	Video
July 20	A. Ludwig	Classification of Topological Insulators III	Notes 3 & Notes 4	Video
	A. Vishwanath	Weyl semimetals & SPT phases III Student Notes		Video
	F. Von Oppen	Majoranas III	Notes 3	Video
July 21	E.-A. Kim	Topological Superconductors I Slides Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
	A. Vishwanath	Weyl semimetals & SPT phases IV Student Notes		Video
	N.P. Ong	Dirac and Weyl Semimetals I	Slides 1	Video
July 22	N.P. Ong	Dirac and Weyl Semimetals II	Slides 2	Video
	E.-A. Kim	Topological Superconductors II Student Notes		Video
	R. Melko	Monte Carlo Strategies for Spin Liquids I	Notes 1	Video
Week 3: July 25-29
July 25	L. Balents	Spin Liquids I Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
	R. Melko	Monte Carlo Strategies for Spin Liquids II	Notes 2	Video
	S. Frolov	Majoranas in Nanowires I Homework	Notes 1	Video
July 26	L. Balents	Spin Liquids II	Notes 2	Video
	S. White	Tensor Network Methods for Spin Liquids I Supporting Reference	Notes 1	Video
	S. Frolov	Majoranas in Nanowires II		Video
	L. Balents	Public Lecture: Strange Stuff: A Second Quantum Revolution Poster	Notes	Video
July 27	L. Balents	Spin Liquids III	Notes 3	Video
	S. White	Tensor Network Methods for Spin Liquids II	Notes 2
	A. Yazdani	Visualizing topological boundary modes: From Dirac and Weyl to Majorana fermions I		Video
July 28	A. Yazdani	Visualizing topological boundary modes: From Dirac and Weyl to Majorana fermions II		Video
	K. Kanoda	Spin Liquids in Organic Materials I	Notes 1	Video
	X. Chen	SPT & SET Phases I Reference Material Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
July 29	X. Chen	SPT & SET Phases II	Notes 2	Video
	K. Kanoda	Spin Liquids in Organic Materials II	Notes 2	Video
	D. Sheng	Topological State Numerics Slides	Notes
Week 4: August 1-5
August 1	L. Fu	Topological Insulators - Applications I		Video
	M. Levin	2 & 3D Topological Phases I References: Levin and Wen, String-net condensation: A physcial mechanism for topological phases Kitaev and Kong, Models for gapped boundaries and domain walls Bravyi and Kitaev, Quantum codes on a lattice with boundary Wang and Levin, Braiding statistics of loop excitations in three dimensions Student Notes	Notes 1	Video
	X. Chen	SPT & SET Phases III	Notes 3	Video
August 2	X. Chen	SPT & SET Phases IV	Notes 4	Video
	M. Levin	2 & 3D Topological Phases II	Notes 2	Video
	X.-G. Wen	Theory of Topological Order I	Notes 1	Video
August 3	M. Levin	2 & 3D Topological Phases III	Notes 3	Video
	L. Fu	Topological Insulators - Applications II		Video
	X.-G. Wen	Theory of Topological Order II	Notes 2	Video
August 4	M. Levin	2 & 3D Topological Phases IV		Video
	L. Fu	Topological Insulators - Applications III		Video
	X.-G. Wen	Theory of Topological Order III	Notes 3	Video
August 5	L. Fu	Topological Insulators - Applications IV		Video
	X.-G. Wen	Theory of Topological Order IV	Notes 4	Video