Topological solitons in superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry
Dr. Julien Garaud, Dept. of Physics, UMass Amherst
Recently discovered iron-based superconductors can exhibit a spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry. This raises the question of
experimental manifestations of this additional broken symmetry. I will
demonstrate that it results in the formation of experimentally
detectable nontrivial topological solitons. This new kind of
soliton can provide an experimental signature of the breaking of time
reversal symmetry.

Category:
Condensed Matter Seminar
Location:
LGRT 1033
Date & time:
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 11:15am
Speaker URL:
http://www.physics.umass.edu/people/julien-garaud 
