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Since the prediction of the quantum spin Hall effect in graphene by Kane and Mele, \(Z_2\) topology in hexagonal monolayers is indissociably linked to high-symmetric honeycomb lattices. This thesis breaks with this paradigm by focusing on topological phases in the fundamental two-dimensional hexagonal crystal, the triangular lattice. In contrast to Kane-Mele-type systems, electrons on the triangular lattice profit from a sizable, since local, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and feature a non-trivial ground state only in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking. This tends to displace the valence charge form the atomic position. Therefore, all non-trivial phases are real-space obstructed. Inspired by the contemporary conception of topological classification of electronic systems, a comprehensive lattice and band symmetry analysis of insulating phases of a \(p\)-shell on the triangular lattice is presented. This reveals not only the mechanism at the origin of band topology, the competition of SOC and symmetry breaking, but sheds also light on the electric polarization arising from a displacement of the valence charge centers from the nuclei, i. e., real-space obstruction. In particular, the competition of SOC versus horizontal and vertical reflection symmetry breaking gives rise to four topologically distinct insulating phases: two kinds of quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHI), an atomic insulator and a real-space obstructed higher-order topological insulator. The theoretical analysis is complemented with state-of-the-art first principles calculations and experiments on trigonal monolayer adsorbate systems. This comprises the recently discovered triangular QSHI indenene, formed by In atoms, and focuses on its topological classification and real-space obstruction. The analysis reveals Kane-Mele-type valence bands which profit from the atomic SOC of the triangular lattice. The realization of a HOTI is proposed by reducing SOC by considering lighter adsorbates. Further the orbital Rashba effect is analyzed in AgTe, a consequence of mirror symmetry breaking, the formation of local angular momentum polarization and SOC. As an outlook beyond topology, the Fermi surface and electronic susceptibility of Group V adsorbates on silicon carbide are investigated.
In summary, this thesis elucidates the interplay of symmetry breaking and SOC on the triangular lattice, which can promote non-trivial insulating phase.
Seit ihrem Aufkommen beschäftigt sich die Organisationsforschung mit dem Antagonismus von Organisation und Individuum, ohne jedoch immer eindeutig fassen zu können, worin genau der Unterschied zwischen beiden besteht. Wollte Taylor den „Horden-Menschen“ noch durch wissenschaftliche Betriebsführung domestizieren und in den Mechanismus der Organisation integrieren, erkannte Barnard bereits, dass nur ein gewisser Teil des Individu-ums in Organisationen kommunikativ erreichbar ist und ersann vor diesem Hintergrund eine Führungstheorie mit dem Ziel, den Bereich erwartbarer Aufgaben-Kommunikation auf ein Maximum auszudehnen und hierdurch die „zone of indifference“ der Mitarbeiter so zu er-weitern, dass selbige möglichst viele Aufgaben und Arbeiten als Teil ihrer Organisations-persönlichkeit internalisieren.
Erst mit den Arbeiten Luhmanns in den 1960er Jahren war man jedoch in der Lage, Informa-lität – also auf personale Erwartungen abzielende Kommunikation – nicht mehr allein als Störung oder Dysfunktionalität, sondern vielmehr als Folge des Umgangs mit der Formal-struktur des Organisationssystems zu beschreiben und die beiden Begriffe folglich in einen funktionalen Zusammenhang zu bringen.
Innerhalb dieses theoriegeschichtlichen Rahmens geht unsere Untersuchung der Frage nach, in welcher Weise Führung im Kontext des Spannungsfeldes zwischen Formalität und Infor-malität operiert und welche Implikationen neuere Semantiken der Managementliteratur (z.B. „die authentische Führungskraft“, „Vertrauen“ oder „Menschsein“), die insbesondere auf eine Personalisierung des Mitarbeiters abzielen, dabei generieren. Hierdurch können wir zeigen, dass Führung mittels informaler Kommunikation, die wir als „Umweghandeln“ be-zeichnen, ein Spiel mit der Grenze zwischen System und Umwelt – also Mitarbeiter – etab-liert, wodurch sie in der Lage ist, den Mitarbeiter als Beobachtung der Differenz zwischen System und Umwelt in das System wieder einzuführen und hierdurch informaler Kommuni-kation Anschlussfähigkeit zu verleihen. Letztlich wird für die Organisation so genau das kommunikativ anschlussfähig, was formal eigentlich immer ausgeschlossen wurde – die Person des Mitarbeiters.
Semiconductor Quantum Dots (QDs) have been attracting immense interest over the last decade from both basic and application-orientated research because of their envisioned use as fundamental building blocks in non-classical device architectures. Their presumable ease of integration into existing semiconductor technology has bought them the reputation of being cost-efficiently scalable and renders them a place among the top candidates in a wide range of proposed quantum logic and quantum information processing schemes. These include the highly acclaimed use of QD as triggered sources of single pairs of entangled photons, which is a key ingredient of most of the intensivly investigated optical quantum cryptography operations. A big obstacle towards these goals are the pronounced asymmetries that are intrinsically present in all currently availabe semiconductor QD systems. They are a natural by-product that stems from the employed self-assembled growth methods and manifest in various forms such as shape-asymmetry, inhomogeneous strain distribution within the QD and concomittant piezo-elecric fields. These asymmetries in return give rise to distinct anisotropies in the optical properties of QDs, which in fact render their optical response classic. For device oriented research these anisotropies are therefore typically considered unwanted and actively researched to be controlled. They are, however, interesting from a fundamental point of view, as anisotropic QDs basically provide a testbed system for fundamental atom-like quantum physics with non-centrosymmetric potentials. As shall be shown in the current work, this gives rise to novel and interesting physics in its own right. Employing photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) we investigate the optical anisotropy of the radiative recombination of excitons confined to CdSe/ZnSe QDs. This is done by angle-dependent polarization-resolved PL. We demonstrate experimentally that the electron-hole exchange interaction in asymmetric QDs gives rise to an effective conversion of the optical polarization from linear to circular and vice versa. The experiment is succesfully modeled in the frame of an exciton pseudospin-formalism that is based on the exchange induced finestructure splitting of the radiative excitonic states and unambiguously proves that the observed polarization conversion is the continuous-wave equivalent to quantum beats between the exchange split states in the time domain. These results indicate that QDs may offer extended functionality beyond non-classical light sources in highly integrated all-optical device schemes, such as polarization converters or modulators. In a further extension we apply the exciton pseudospin-formalism to optical alignment studies and demonstrate how these can be used to directly measure the otherwise hidden symmetry distribution over an ensemble of QDs. This kind of measurement may be used on future optical studies in order to link optical data more directly to structural investigations, as it yields valuable information on capped QDs that cannot be looked at directly by topological methods. In the last part of this work we study the influence of an in-plane magnetic field on the optical anisotropy. We find that the optical axis of the linear polarization component of the photoluminescence signal either rotates in the opposite direction to that of the magnetic field or remains fixed to a given crystalline direction. A qualitative theoretical analysis based on the exciton pseudospin Hamiltonian unambiguously demonstrates that these effects are induced by isotropic and anisotropic contributions to the heavy-hole Zeeman term, respectively. The latter is shown to be compensated by a built-in uniaxial anisotropy in a magnetic field B=0.4 T, resulting in an optical response that would be expected for highly symmetric QDs. For a comprehensive quantitative analysis the full heavy-hole exciton k.p-Hamiltonian is numerically calculated and the resulting optical polarization is modeled. The model is able to quantitatively describe all experimental results using a single set of parameters. From this model it is explicitly seen that a optical response characteristic for high symmetry QDs may be obtained from an ensemble of asymmetric QDs without a crossing of the zero-field bright exciton states, which was required for application of QDs in non-classical light sources. It is clearly demonstrated that any scheme using in-plane magnetic fields to symmetrize the optical response has to take into account at least four optically active states instead of the two observed in the absence of magnetic fields. These findings may explain some of the major disagreement on recent entanglement studies in asymmetric QDs, as models that do not take the above result into account cannot be a priori expected to provide reliable results on excitonic Bell states.
The observation of neutrino masses and lepton mixing has highlighted the incompleteness of the Standard Model of particle physics. In conjunction with this discovery, new questions arise: why are the neutrino masses so small, which form has their mass hierarchy, why is the mixing in the quark and lepton sectors so different or what is the structure of the Higgs sector. In order to address these issues and to predict future experimental results, different approaches are considered. One particularly interesting possibility, are Grand Unified Theories such as SU(5) or SO(10). GUTs are vertical symmetries since they unify the SM particles into multiplets and usually predict new particles which can naturally explain the smallness of the neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism. On the other hand, also horizontal symmetries, i.e., flavor symmetries, acting on the generation space of the SM particles, are promising. They can serve as an explanation for the quark and lepton mass hierarchies as well as for the different mixings in the quark and lepton sectors. In addition, flavor symmetries are significantly involved in the Higgs sector and predict certain forms of mass matrices. This high predictivity makes GUTs and flavor symmetries interesting for both, theorists and experimentalists. These extensions of the SM can be also combined with theories such as supersymmetry or extra dimensions. In addition, they usually have implications on the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe or can provide a dark matter candidate. In general, they also predict the lepton flavor violating rare decays mu -> e gamma, tau -> mu gamma and tau -> e gamma which are strongly bounded by experiments but might be observed in the future. In this thesis, we combine all of these approaches, i.e., GUTs, the seesaw mechanism and flavor symmetries. Moreover, our request is to develop and perform a systematic model building approach with flavor symmetries and to search for phenomenological implications. This provides a new perspective in model building since it allows us to screen models by its predictions on the theoretical and phenomenological side, i.e., we can apply further model constraints to single out a desired model. The results of our approach are, e.g., diverse lepton flavor and GUT models, a systematic scan of lepton flavor violation, new mass matrices, a new understanding of lepton mixing angles, a general extension of the idea of quark-lepton complementarity theta_12=pi/4-epsilon/sqrt{2} and for the first time the QLC relation in an SU(5) GUT.
Spiraltypflächen sind Minimalflächen des dreidimensionalen euklidischen Raums, die sich durch hohe Symmetrie gegenüber komplexen Ähnlichkeitsabbildungen der Minimalkurve auszeichnen. Ihren Namen verdanken Sie folgender Eigenschaft: Sie und ihre komplex Homothetischen sind die einzigen auf Spiralflächen abwickelbaren Minimalflächen. Bekannte Spiraltypflächen sind die Spiralminimalflächen (zugleich Minimal- und Spiralflächen) und die Bourflächen (auf Rotationsflächen abwickelbare Minimalflächen). Das Katenoid und die Enneperfläche sind spezielle Bourflächen. In dieser Arbeit werden die Spiraltypflächen auf ihre geometrischen Eigenschaften untersucht. Wir stellen ihre Periodizitäten und Symmetrien fest und versuchen, ausgezeichnete Flächenkurven auf ihnen zu finden. Wir verwenden eine globale Weierstraß-Darstellung der Spiraltypflächen. In dieser Darstellung ergeben die Flächen eine Schar mit einem komplexen Scharparameter. Anhand dieser Darstellung leiten wir sämtliche Symmetrien der Spiraltypflächen zu linearen Ähnlichkeitsabbildungen der Minimalkurve her. Als Spezialfälle erhalten wir die Symmetrien unter Assoziationen und Derivationen (Drehung der Minimalkurve um einen imaginären Drehwinkel), sowie die reellen Symmetrien (Dreh-, Spiegel- und Strecksymmetrien). Unter den Spiraltypflächen gibt es nur zwei translationssymmetrische Flächen. Die Umorientierung einer Spiraltypfläche entspricht (bis auf komplexe Homothetie) dem Vorzeichenwechsel des Flächenparameters. Im Übrigen kann durch einfache Spiegelungen an den Koordinatenebenen beziehungsweise Drehungen um die Koordinatenachsen das Vorzeichen von Real- beziehungsweise Imaginärteil des Flächenparameters umgekehrt werden. Schließlich stellen wir noch ausgezeichnete Flächenkurven auf den Spiraltypflächen vor: Krümmungslinien, Asymptotenlinien und Geodätische, sowie als deren Verallgemeinerungen die Pseudokrümmungslinien und Pseudogeodätischen.