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What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang

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David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. But … what does that mean? Fan Zhang helps decode some seriously tricky science.

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David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz were awarded the Nobel Prize in ____ 2016 “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”

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  • Educator Fan Zhang
  • Director Anton Trofimov
  • Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
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