TopArtGravity lectures on topological quantum matter
21-29 October 2025, Belgrade, Serbia
Programme
Lectures will be held from Tuesday to Thursday, 21-23. October 2025, at the Faculty of Physics, Studentski Trg 12, Belgrade, lecture hall 665 (third floor), and on Friday 24. October 2025, at the Institute of Physics, Pregrevica 118, Belgrade, lecture hall 360 (second floor).
The PDF version of the announcement is available here.
| Tuesday, 21. October 2025 --- Faculty of Physics | ||
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14:00 -- 15:30 |
Speaker: Vladimir Juričić Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile |
Title: Foundations: Berry phase and Chern number Topics: - Bloch bands and Bloch bundle - Berry connection, curvature, and Zak phase - Chern number/TKNN invariant, Hall conductivity - Bulk–boundary correspondence - Minimal models: Su-Schrieffer-Heeger, Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang, Haldane |
| Wednesday, 22. October 2025 --- Faculty of Physics | ||
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11:00 -- 12:30 |
Speaker: Vladimir Juričić Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile |
Title: Time-reversal topological insulators and superconductors, tenfold way Topics: - Altland–Zirnbauer symmetry classes (TRS, PHS, chiral) - Fu–Kane parity criterion and Pfaffian formulation - 3D topological insulators, 3D TI surface Dirac cone - Kitaev chain and Majorana bound state |
| Thursday, 23. October 2025 --- Faculty of Physics | ||
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11:00 -- 12:30 |
Speaker: Vladimir Juričić Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile |
Title: Crystalline topology and higher-order phases Topics: - Symmetry indicators and topological quantum chemistry - Wannier obstruction and symmetry-protected topology - Mirror/rotation/inversion invariants - Higher-order TIs: hinge/corner states, fragile topology |
| Friday, 24. October 2025 --- Institute of Physics | ||
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11:00 -- 12:30 |
Speaker: Vladimir Juričić Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile |
Title: Non-Hermitian topology: NH Dirac fermions, interactions, and flat bands Topics: - Biorthogonal formalism, NH Bloch bands - NH Dirac fermions - Interaction effects - Exceptional flat bands |
| Wednesday, 29. October 2025 --- Faculty of Physics | ||
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11:00 -- 12:30 |
Speaker: Vladimir Juričić Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile |
Title: Quantum geometry and responses Topics: - Quantum geometric tensor: Berry curvature + Fubini–Study metric - Modern theory of polarization and orbital magnetization - Anomalous Hall effect. Berry-curvature dipole and nonlinear Hall conductivity - Superfluid weight and geometric contributions - Flat/near-flat Chern bands; moiré miniband geometry (overview) |
Last update: Friday 17. October 2025, 01:48:12.
