Dr Mikhail Zubkov

Nationalité
Russia
Programme
SMART LOIRE VALLEY GENERAL PROGRAMME
Période
janvier, 2016 - décembre, 2016
Award
LE STUDIUM Research Fellowship

Domaine de recherche

Theoretical Physics

Établissement d'origine

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics - RU

Laboratoire d'accueil

Institut Denis Poisson, UMR 7013 / Université d'Orléans, Université de Tours, CNRS - FR

Hôte scientifique

Dr Maxim Chernodub

PROJET

Establishing links between gravity, field theory and condensed matter: Dirac and Weyl semimetals, superfluids, composite Higgs bosons

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Publications in relation with the research project

Publications

G.E. Volovik
Mikhail A. Zubkov
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The study of the Weyl and Dirac topological materials (topological semimetals, insulators, superfluids and superconductors) opens the route for the investigation of the topological quantum vacua of relativistic fields. The symmetric phase of the standard model (SM), where both electroweak and chiral symmetry are not broken, represents the topological semimetal. The vacua of the SM (and its extensions) in the phases with broken electroweak symmetry represent the topological insulators of different types. We discuss in detail the topological invariants in both the symmetric and broken phases and establish their relation to the stability of vacuum.