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Session Y32: Topological Insulators: General Theory

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Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Bodgan Bernevig, Princeton University
Room: 261


Friday, March 2, 2012
8:00AM - 8:12AM

Y32.00001: Z$_Q$ topological invariants for identification of short rangeentangled states
Isao Maruyama , Sho Tanaya , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

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Friday, March 2, 2012
8:12AM - 8:24AM

Y32.00002: Trace index and spectral flow in the entanglement spectrum of topological insulators
Aris Alexandradinata , Taylor Hughes , Andrei Bernevig

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Friday, March 2, 2012
8:24AM - 8:36AM

Y32.00003: Axions strings and Goldstone-Wilczek currents in quantum spin systems and topological insulators
Akihiro Tanaka

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Friday, March 2, 2012
8:36AM - 8:48AM

Y32.00004: Casimir Interaction Between Topological Insulator Thin Films and Graphene Sheets
Wang-Kong Tse , A.H. MacDonald

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Friday, March 2, 2012
8:48AM - 9:00AM

Y32.00005: Exact duality between symmetry protected topological order and intrinsic topological order
Zhengcheng Gu , Michael Levin

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Friday, March 2, 2012
9:00AM - 9:12AM

Y32.00006: Asymmetric spatial structure of zero modes for birefringent Dirac fermions
Malcolm P. Kennett , Bitan Roy , Peter M. Smith

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Friday, March 2, 2012
9:12AM - 9:24AM

Y32.00007: Location of Singularities in tight-binding wave function of loop-ordered states with Chern numbers
Yan He , Chandra Varma

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Friday, March 2, 2012
9:24AM - 9:36AM

Y32.00008: Effects of spin-orbit interaction on a triangular lattice potential patterned two-dimensional electron gas
Chon-Saar Chu , Wie-Lin Su , RongSing Chang

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Friday, March 2, 2012
9:36AM - 9:48AM

Y32.00009: Smooth gauge for topological insulators
Alexey Soluyanov , David Vanderbilt

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Friday, March 2, 2012
9:48AM - 10:00AM

Y32.00010: Stable nontrivial $Z_2$ topology in ultrathin Bi (111) films: a first-principles study
Zheng Liu , Chao-Xing Liu , Yong-Shi Wu , Wen-Hui Duan , Feng Liu , Jian Wu

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Friday, March 2, 2012
10:00AM - 10:12AM

Y32.00011: Breakdown of Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Scheme by Spontaneous Orbital Currents in Zero-gap Semiconductors
Moyuru Kurita , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

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Friday, March 2, 2012
10:12AM - 10:24AM

Y32.00012: Transition in topological phase of Ge-Sb-Te and Ge-Bi-Te heterostructures
Jeongwoo Kim , Jinwoong Kim , Ki-Seok Kim , Seung-Hoon Jhi

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Friday, March 2, 2012
10:24AM - 10:36AM

Y32.00013: Nontrivial topological effects on the surface of strong and weak topological insulators and superconductors
Ching-Kai Chiu , Michael Stone

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