Topological photonics promises robust light transport immune to disorder, but existing linear systems are essentially static ...

Light that twists as it travels and materials whose internal order is knotted like a pretzel are starting to collide in the ...

Topological photonics has emerged as a powerful paradigm for achieving robust light transport that is immune to imperfections, disorder, and ...

Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists unveils first-of-its-kind topological qubit, paving the way for a more fault-tolerant quantum computer In a leap forward for quantum computing, a ...

Quantum physics has quietly been rewriting the rulebook on matter, and the latest breakthroughs suggest that the so‑called ...

Properties that remain unchanged when materials are stretched or bent, which are broadly referred to as topological ...

In order: space, space with a black hole in it, space with a theorized topological soliton. Gif: PIERRE HEIDMANN/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object ...

On the left, the schematic illustration depicts the gluing rules of the Brillouin manifold, with a half-twist operation connecting the opposing faces. On the right, the BZ is divided into 64 blocks by ...