{"id":224131,"date":"2025-10-28T02:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/topological-insulator-maintains-quantum-spin-hall-effect-at-higher-temperatures"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:18:45","slug":"topological-insulator-maintains-quantum-spin-hall-effect-at-higher-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/topological-insulator-maintains-quantum-spin-hall-effect-at-higher-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"Topological insulator maintains quantum spin Hall effect at higher temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/topological-insulator-maintains-quantum-spin-hall-effect-at-higher-temperatures3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topological insulators could form the basis for revolutionary electronic components. However, as they generally only function at very low temperatures, their practical application has been severely limited to date. Researchers at the University of W\u00fcrzburg have now developed a topological insulator that also works at higher temperatures. Their results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz2408\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>A topological insulator can be imagined as a material that is a perfect insulator on the inside\u2014it does not conduct electricity there. At its edges, however, it behaves like an almost lossless \u201celectron highway.\u201d Electrons can move along these paths with almost no loss.<\/p>\n<p>To deepen the analogy: these highways have separate lanes for electrons with different \u201cspins\u201d\u2014a kind of intrinsic angular momentum. Electrons with \u201cspin-up\u201d move in one direction, electrons with \u201cspin-down\u201d in the opposite direction. This strict traffic regulation prevents collisions and thus <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+losses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy losses<\/a>. The phenomenon behind this is known as the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE)\u2014an effect that was also first experimentally proven at the University of W\u00fcrzburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topological insulators could form the basis for revolutionary electronic components. However, as they generally only function at very low temperatures, their practical application has been severely limited to date. Researchers at the University of W\u00fcrzburg have now developed a topological insulator that also works at higher temperatures. Their results are published in Science Advances. 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":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224131","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=224131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}