Topology in Condensed Matter: Tying Quantum Knots¶

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About the course¶

This is an open online course on topology in condensed matter. Initially developed for the edX platform in 2015, its development continues here.

Authors¶

The course was initiated and written by

• Anton Akhmerov (TU Delft)

• Jay Sau (University of Maryland)

• Bernard van Heck (Leiden University).

Most of the code was developed by TU Delft PhD students:

• Sebastian Rubbert

• Rafał Skolasiński

• Bas Nijholt

• Irfan Muhammad

• Tómas Örn Rosdahl

The course videos were generously contributed by multiple experts in the field:

• Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Institute of Science)

• Carlo Beenakker (Leiden University)

• Dganit Meidan (Ben Gurion University)

• Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute of Science)

• Bertrand Halperin (Harvard University)

• Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford University)

• Duncan Haldane (Princeton University)

• Charles Kane (University of Pennsylvania)

• Michael Wimmer (TU Delft)

• Joel Moore (Berkeley University)

• David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University)

• Taylor Hughes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Shinsei Ryu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Fabian Hassler (RWTH Aachen)

• Piet Brouwer (Freie Universität Berlin)

• Alexander Altland (University of Cologne)

• Ashvin Vishwanath (University of California, Berkeley)

• Vincenzo Vitelli (Leiden University)

• Mark Rudner (Niels Bohr Institute)

• Liang Fu (MIT)

• Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland)

• Barbara Terhal (RWTH Aachen)