Topological insulators are “a new way of thinking of the states of matter,” says Zahid Hasan, an experimental physicist at Princeton. “They’re teaching us totally new physics.” ...

"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 ...

The MnBi 2 Te 4 may also become an axion insulator – the solid-state version of the axion, which is a very interesting elementary particle in high-energy physics, he adds. An axion insulator is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The results add to scientists' understanding of topological insulators, but also may contribute to the larger subject that Armitage calls "the central question of modern physics:" What is the ...

Since they were first predicted in 2005 and subsequently identified in the lab, topological insulators have been a hot topic in condensed-matter physics. Electrical insulators in the bulk, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...