PHYSICS 682, SPRING 2020

Special Topics Course:
Berry Phases in Solid State Physics

Syllabus

Topics will include:

• Berry phases
• Berry curvatures
• Maximally localized Wannier functions
• Adiabatic evolution
• Electric polarization
• Quantized adiabatic charge transport
• Quantum anomalous Hall effect
• Topological insulators
• Weyl and Dirac semimetals
• Orbital magnetization
• Axion magnetoelectric effects