Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Introducing topological insulators

On his website Joel Moore has a copy of the slides from a colloquium  New topologically ordered phases of condensed matter that he gave in 2009.
I found this a helpful introduction/review. Sometimes talk slides are more helpful than review articles. A picture can be worth a thousand words...

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