Speaker
Prof.
Igor Boettcher
(University of Alberta)
Description
Topological semimetals can host novel fermionic particles whose intriguing interactions and many-body phases can be studied experimentally. I will discuss the particularly exciting class of Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals hosting spin-3/2 electrons with linear dispersion at a four-fold band crossing point, realized experimentally in quantum materials in the last years. I will combine symmetry considerations, perturbative renormalization group analysis, and mean-field theory to discern several exotic interacting phases that are prone to emerge in the strongly correlated regime.
| Keyword-1 | Topological Semimetals |
|---|---|
| Keyword-2 | Renormalization Group |
| Keyword-3 | Quantum phase transitions |
Primary author
Prof.
Igor Boettcher
(University of Alberta)
