AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition
    IPF on Mesoscale Science and Technology of Materials and Metamaterials Tuesday Sessions
       Session IPF+MS-TuA

Invited Paper IPF+MS-TuA9
New States of Electronic Matter and their Potential for Science and Computation

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:00 pm, Room 210F

Session: Frontiers in Physics
Presenter: Joel Moore, University California, Berkeley
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A major development in solid-state physics over the past decade is the discovery of several new classes of electronic materials that combine features of metals and semiconductors in novel and potentially useful ways. "Topological insulators" are materials that insulate in bulk but have atomically thin conducting layers at their surfaces as a subtle consequence of spin-orbit coupling. “Weyl" and “Dirac" semimetals are three-dimensional materials that realize two different 3D generalizations of the massless electronic structure of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, whose discovery was recognized by the 2010 Nobel Prize. We explain the origin of these materials and how they might enable dissipationless electrical conduction and superconducting states with fractional “Majorana” particles.