Leibniz Group Seminar | June 27, 10:15

On the localization dichotomy for gapped quantum systems

Massimo Moscolari

In 2016 a localization dichotomy result for periodic Schrödinger operators has been proved. This result shows that the localization properties of the Wannier functions associated to a periodic Schrödinger operator are deeply connected to the topological properties of the quantum system. In this seminar I will start by discussing the generalization of Wannier functions and Chern number to non-periodic systems. After that, I will present some results regarding the generalization of the localization dichotomy to generic gapped quantum systems.


La Sapienza University of Rome
Seminarraum Theoretische Physik
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