Events

Seminar "Coherence-Correlations-Complexity", Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Wrocław University of Technology

Quantum anomalies and transport

dr Francisco Pena-Benitez

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden

The seminar will be broadcast on the Zoom platform (the link will be made available to interested persons after prior contact at ).

Abstract:

In this talk I will introduce the notion of quantum anomalies, an important example corresponds to the celebrated chiral anomaly, responsible for the decay of pions into photons. Surprisingly this quantum effect can be manifested in transport at the macroscopic level. Within the systems where anomalous transport may lead to observable signals we find the quark gluon plasma and the recently discovered topological semimetals. In particular, I will focus on the so-called Dirac materials and some exotic cousins of them.