Excitations play a crucial role in determining fundamental electronic and optical properties of a crystal, and can even give rise to states of matter without any equilibrium counterparts. At the single-layer limit, quantum confinement and enhanced interaction effects lead to exotic many-body phenomena. For example, single-layer semiconductors host tightly bound excitons with large binding energies that remain stable even at room temperature. In bilayer and few-layer stacks, the relative twist angle between layers introduces an additional degree of tunability, enabling the exploration of new emergent phenomena. These include strongly correlated electronic states, adjustable band gaps, unique optical and magnetic properties, and correlated topological phases such as spin Hall and fractional quantum Hall effects. The summer school aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to these cutting-edge topics and place them within the broader framework of emergent phenomena in condensed matter physics.
Topological Matter School 2025 (August 18-22): during one week we will provide extended lectures on these exciting topics by leading experts in both experiment and theory. Our program will be spread in 1 week with 6 lectures per day.
This is the list of lecturers for the 2025 edition:
- Andrei Bernevig
- Alexander Altland
- Laura Classen
- Xiaodong Xu
- Nadya Mason
- Benjamin Sacepe
- Raquel Queiroz
- Ady Stern
- Samir Lounis
- Roser Valentí*
- Pablo Jarillo-Herrero*
- Jen Cano*
Conference venue
This School is organized within the summer program of the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) “Cursos de verano”. The event is sponsored by the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). The conference venue is in the Miramar Palace is located on the La Concha Bay in the city of San Sebastian
Registration deadline: March 15th 2025.
email: tms@dipc.org