{"id":181435,"date":"2024-01-26T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-method-flips-the-script-on-topological-physics"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:25:43","slug":"new-method-flips-the-script-on-topological-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-method-flips-the-script-on-topological-physics","title":{"rendered":"New method flips the script on topological physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-flips-the-script-on-topological-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The branch of mathematics known as topology has become a cornerstone of modern physics thanks to the remarkable\u2014and above all reliable\u2014properties it can impart to a material or system. Unfortunately, identifying topological systems, or even designing new ones, is generally a tedious process that requires exactly matching the physical system to a mathematical model.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Amsterdam and the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure of Lyon have demonstrated a model-free method for identifying topology, enabling the discovery of new topological materials using a purely experimental approach. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2305287121\">published<\/a> in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Topology encompasses the properties of a system that cannot be changed by any \u201csmooth deformation.\u201d As you might be able to tell from this rather formal and abstract description, topology began its life as a branch of mathematics. However, over the last few decades physicists have demonstrated that the mathematics underlying topology can have very real consequences. Topological effects can be found in a wide range of physical systems, from individual electrons to large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ocean+currents\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ocean currents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The branch of mathematics known as topology has become a cornerstone of modern physics thanks to the remarkable\u2014and above all reliable\u2014properties it can impart to a material or system. Unfortunately, identifying topological systems, or even designing new ones, is generally a tedious process that requires exactly matching the physical system to a mathematical model. Researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}