Topological phases are unusual states of matter that give rise to properties protected by a material's overall structure (i.e., "topology"), as opposed to microscopic details. These phases are of ...

Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists unveils first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer In a leap forward for quantum computing, a ...

Topological insulators are strange stuff – the bulk of this material is insulating and cannot carry an electrical current, yet the surfaces of the same material are conducting. This means that charged ...

On the left, the schematic illustration depicts the gluing rules of the Brillouin manifold, with a half-twist operation connecting the opposing faces. On the right, the BZ is divided into 64 blocks by ...

A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object that they believe could look like a black hole to Earth-based observers but is actually a star. The star is a topological soliton: a smooth, ...

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far ...