We are pleased to announce the publication of a collection of research articles on «
Topological States of Matter: Theory and Applications».
Applications of this informatics - driven approach are wide - ranging and cover, for example, the search for various functional materials with special electrical, optical and magnetic properties, including the 2016 Nobel Prize - winning
topological states of matter — an important building block of a quantum computer.
«Knowing that a material has
some topological state of matter, however, does not mean immediately predicting its properties,» cautions co-author Claudia Felser, a materials scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany.
Not exact matches
Classification
of topological quantum phases has brought about a fundamental notion
of SPT phases, which are exotic
states under the protection
of symmetries, and greatly expand our understanding
of the fundamental nature
of quantum
matter.
It's a behavior characteristic
of a recently discovered
state of matter called a
topological insulator.
Topological semimetals represent a new quantum
state of matter.
A study on page 298
of this week's Nature unveils an atlas
of materials that might host
topological effects, giving physicists many more places to go looking for bizarre
states of matter such as Weyl fermions or quantum - spin liquids.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics is awarded for discoveries
of exotic
states of matter known as
topological phases that can help explain phenomena such as superconductivity.
This elegant relation between the physical quantization
of conductance and the abstract concept
of topology opened the door to the exploration
of a wide family
of exotic
states of matter, the so - called
topological phases, whose discovery was recently honored by the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.