Speaker
Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University, USA)
Date & Time
Mon, 21 August 2017, 16:00 to Tue, 21 August 2018, 17:30
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
Quantum Hall nematics are states that combine the topological order of the quantum Hall effect with the orientational ordering of nematics. I will describe how discrete nematics arise in multi-valley systems and a set of remarkable experiments on Bismuth which have observed their orientational ordering directly. I will also comment on the possibility of a continuous nematic state and its connection with some work of Haldane on an alternate field theory for quantum Hall systems.