What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang
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What if electricity could travel forever without being diminished? What if a computer could run exponentially faster with perfect accuracy? What technology could those abilities build? We may be able to find out thanks to the work of the three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the award for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. But what does that mean? First of all, topology is a branch of mathematics that focuses on fundamental properties of objects. Topological properties don't change when an object is gradually stretched or bent. The object has to be torn or attached in new pl...
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What if electricity could travel forever without being diminished? What if a computer could run exponentially faster with perfect accuracy? What technology could those abilities build? We may be able to find out thanks to the work of the three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the award for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. But what does that mean? First of all, topology is a branch of mathematics that focuses on fundamental properties of objects. Topological properties don't change when an object is gradually stretched or bent. The object has to be torn or attached in new pl...
