Topological materials are a class of materials that exhibit unique electronic properties at their boundary (surface in 3D ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never ...

Researchers demonstrate a current-induced magnetization switching originated from weakly asymmetric topological surface ...

The study was conducted by a research team led by Professor Zhang Junyan and Associate Professor Gong Zhenbin at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, a part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear ...

Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with different topological charges), observed manipulation of floating ...

A path to graphene topological qubits Date: April 28, 2021 Source: Aalto University Summary: Researchers demonstrate that magnetism and superconductivity can coexist in graphene, opening a pathway ...

Nanostructured topological insulator growth speeds up Thanks to scanning tunnelling spectroscopy measurements, they found that their film had an intrinsic hybridization gap of 60 meV, which is small ...

For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological insulator at room temperature. This finding opens up a new range of possibilities for the development of efficient ...

These “topological” qubits are extremely difficult to build, but despite the technical challenges, some researchers are convinced that they are the only path to building a useful quantum computer with ...