{"id":220017,"date":"2025-08-13T04:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-3d-topological-phase-of-matter-exhibits-anomalous-symmetry-at-non-zero-temperatures"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:21:30","slug":"new-3d-topological-phase-of-matter-exhibits-anomalous-symmetry-at-non-zero-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-3d-topological-phase-of-matter-exhibits-anomalous-symmetry-at-non-zero-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"New 3D topological phase of matter exhibits anomalous symmetry at non-zero temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-3d-topological-phase-of-matter-exhibits-anomalous-symmetry-at-non-zero-temperatures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some phases of matter cannot be described using the conventional framework of symmetry breaking and exhibit a so-called quantum order. One type of quantum order, known as topological order, is characterized by long-range entanglement between particles across an entire system, a ground state degeneracy that depends on the global shape of the system, and a robustness against local disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>Topological phases of matter primarily occur at zero temperature, as thermal fluctuations tend to destroy them and disrupt their underlying order. In a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/n9sq-8cxw\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, however, researchers at Nanjing University, Yale University and other institutes reported a new 3D topological phase of matter characterized by an anomalous two-form symmetry that occurs at non-zero temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last several years, we have made substantial progress in our ability to control <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems <\/a>\u2014over a range of different platforms: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+qubits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting qubits<\/a>, trapped ions, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutral+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutral atoms<\/a>, photonics, and so on,\u201d Tyler D. Ellison, senior author of the paper, told Phys.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some phases of matter cannot be described using the conventional framework of symmetry breaking and exhibit a so-called quantum order. One type of quantum order, known as topological order, is characterized by long-range entanglement between particles across an entire system, a ground state degeneracy that depends on the global shape of the system, and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220017","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=220017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}