In insulators, by contrast, electrons cannot move and the materials ... The discoveries advance the fundamental understanding of condensed matter physics and may have implications for the development ...

Table 1 Summary of the d-dimensional fractionalized topological insulators discussed here and their universal response properties (acronyms are defined in the main text). Full size table Besides ...

Although this makes it difficult to picture the bulk physics of the 3D topological insulator (only the strong topological insulator will be discussed from this point), it is simple to picture its ...

(Courtesy: Wang et al.) Materials known as topological insulators have the unusual property of being able to conduct electricity on their surface even though they are insulators inside. If that ...

"This experimental system provides an excellent platform to pursue a plethora of exotic physics and novel device applications predicted for topological insulators," Chen said. For example, by further ...

“Because of the fundamental differences between fermions and bosons, whether a 3D bosonic photonic topological insulator could be realized was still an open question prior to our work,” he tells ...

Topological insulators are strange stuff – the bulk of this material ... These three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for their groundbreaking work on topological phase ...

In contrast, QOs are usually absent for insulators due to the zero density of state in the gap. A team led by Dr. Yang Wei and Dr. Zhang Guangyu from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese ...

won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and a type of two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators. Subsequent theoretical developments showed ...

We wanted to show that these complex ideas in theoretical and experimental physics and chemistry are actually not as impossible to understand as you might initially think." Topological insulators ...