Examining Topological Insulators and Topological Semimetals Using First Principles Calculations

Examining Topological Insulators and Topological Semimetals Using First Principles Calculations

The importance and promise that topological materials hold has been recently underscored by the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 ``for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." This dissertation explores the novel qualities and usefu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Villanova, John William
Other Authors: Physics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2018
Subjects:
density functional theory
topological insulators
Dirac semimetals
Weyl semimetals
Wannier functions
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82959

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82959

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