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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yoichi Ando\nhosted by Johannes Fink\nAbstract: Topolo
 gical insulators and superconductors are new quantum states of matter that
  are characterized by nontrivial topological structures of the Hilbert spa
 ce. Recently\, they attract a lot of attention because of the appearance o
 f exotic quasiparticles such as spin-momentum-locked Dirac fermions or Maj
 orana fermions on their edge/surface\, which hold promise for various nove
 l applications. In particular\, localized zero-energy Majorana mode is exp
 ected to obey non-Abelian statistics and enable topological quantum comput
 ing. In this talk\, I will introduce the basics of those materials and pre
 sent some of the key contributions we have made in this new frontier\, suc
 h as the synthesis of bulk-insulating topological insulators\, discovery o
 f topological crystalline insulator\, and the discovery of nematic topolog
 ical superconductor.Biography:Dr. Yoichi Ando was born in Tokyo\, Japan\, 
 in 1964. He obtained B.Sc. (1987)\, M.Sc. (1989)\, and Ph.D. (1994) degree
 s from the University of Tokyo. He was a postdoc at Bell Laboratories in t
 he US (1994-1996)\, and then led a research group at Central Research Inst
 itute of Electric Power Industry in Tokyo (1996-2007)\, where he eventuall
 y became a department head. He was appointed to a full professor in 2007 a
 t Osaka University\, and in 2015 he moved to the University of Cologne as 
 a W3 professor of experimental physics. According to the Web of Science\, 
 his h-index is currently 64. For his seminal contributions to the fields o
 f high-temperature superconductivity and topological materials\, he receiv
 ed Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize in 2006\, Super
 conductivity Science and Technology Award in 2003 (for high-Tc cuprates) a
 nd in 2013 (for topological superconductors)\, Inoue Prize for Science in 
 2014\, and Osaka Science Prize in 2014. He is one of the Highly Cited Rese
 archers in Physics in 2014 and 2017\, and he obtained the prestigious ERC 
 Advanced Grant in 2017.
LOCATION:Big Seminar room Ground floor / Office Bldg West (I21.EG.101)\, IS
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ORGANIZER:jdeanton@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Yoichi Ando: Topological insulators and superconductors
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/1078
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