WELCOME TO OUR SUMMER SCHOOL - OCT 22 - 25, 2015
This Summer School continues the series of joint international schools by the IMPRS-CMS and the Max Planck-UBC Center for Quantum Materials in Vancouver.
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Scope
Coupling between motional and spin degrees of freedom of electrons in solids is a genuinely relativistic effect, which leads to a plethora of interesting phenomena and underlies the physics of some of the most exciting quantum materials discovered in recent decades. This includes topological insulators and superconductors, Weyl and Dirac semimetals, and various strongly correlated complex oxides, such as iridates and ruthenates. In a series of pedagogical lectures the summer school will introduce the general concept of spin-orbit coupling in atoms and in solids and then will proceed to describe various classes of materials where these effects are strongly manifested. The school is aimed at graduate students and postdocs working in both experiment and theory who possess basic background in condensed matter physics.
Organizers
Marcel Franz (UBC Vancouver)
B.J. Kim (MPI Stuttgart)
Andrea Damascelli (UBC)
