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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Institute for Topological Insulators and the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) now present an unusual quantum ...

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 ...

By some trick of physics, the topological twists in the interior translated ... Materials like von Klitzing’s super-chilled samples are now referred to as topological insulators, because even though ...