{"id":212190,"date":"2025-04-23T05:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chirality-switching-on-demand"},"modified":"2025-04-23T05:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:16:19","slug":"chirality-switching-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chirality-switching-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"Chirality Switching On Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chirality-switching-on-demand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A device made of multilayer graphene exhibits topologically protected edge currents whose direction can be switched using an electric field.<\/p>\n<p>Topological phases of matter have captivated physicists for several decades, promising exotic phenomena and new paradigms for electronic devices [1]. So-called Chern insulators\u2014systems exhibiting quantized Hall conductance without an external magnetic field\u2014are particularly enticing. These materials support dissipationless, one-way electron transport along their edges, which could enable robust low-power electronics or even form the backbone of future topological quantum-computing architectures [2]. Yet, the defining feature of a Chern insulator\u2014its chirality, which determines the direction of the edge-state current\u2014is set by material symmetry and is therefore notoriously rigid and difficult to manipulate dynamically [3\u20135].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A device made of multilayer graphene exhibits topologically protected edge currents whose direction can be switched using an electric field. Topological phases of matter have captivated physicists for several decades, promising exotic phenomena and new paradigms for electronic devices [1]. So-called Chern insulators\u2014systems exhibiting quantized Hall conductance without an external magnetic field\u2014are particularly enticing. These [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212190","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}