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Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Visualizing Topological Charges of Dirac Points through Quasiparticle Interference

Speaker Mr. Danbo Zhang
Date March 21, 2014 (Fri)
Time 3:00 p.m.
Venue Room 105, 1/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU

Abstract

Dirac cones in two dimensional systems such as those in graphene or on the surface of three dimensional topological insulators, have attracted a great attention recently. The robustness of Dirac points (Fermi surfaces) against weak perturbations are due to the nature of topological charges attached on these points. I will briefly review the background of quasiparticle interference, then I will apply the interference theory to visualizing topological charges of Dirac points, which can be detected by scanning tunneling microscopeexperiments. Basically, a Dirac-point that has topological charge N will leads to a 2N disconnected bright arc in its quasiparticle interference pattern.