Transport and thermodynamics (B01)

• Subject Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 277146847

Topology has proved extremely fruitful in classifying matter. Here, we want to use topological materials as a basis for exploring further exotic phases that can emerge from them. By using clean room fabrication, we will, for example, induce superconductivity into topological insulators with the prospect of realizing and studying Majorana modes. Via quantum transport and thermodynamics we will study these devices and also bulk crystals of topological and magnetically frustrated matter in order to explore Skyrmion and spin-liquid phases, as well as the influence of charge puddles on the thermal transport properties.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1238: Control and Dynamics of Quantum Materials
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Yoichi Ando; Dr. Oliver Breunig, since 7/2020; Professor Dr. Thomas Lorenz