{"id":243615,"date":"2026-09-04T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/temperature-emerges-as-a-control-for-topological-properties-of-materials"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:37:15","slug":"temperature-emerges-as-a-control-for-topological-properties-of-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/temperature-emerges-as-a-control-for-topological-properties-of-materials","title":{"rendered":"Temperature emerges as a control for topological properties of materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/temperature-emerges-as-a-control-for-topological-properties-of-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), an interaction between an electron\u2019s spin and its motion, plays a key role in creating topological insulators\u2014unusual materials that are insulating in their interior but can conduct electricity along their surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2950636026002239\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Newton<\/i> finds that increasing temperature weakens SOC in the topological insulator Bi<sub>2<\/sub>Se<sub>3<\/sub>, driving a transition to a normal insulating state. The findings suggest that temperature could serve as a new \u201cknob\u201d for controlling the topological properties of materials.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Professor Sun Yiyang from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (SIC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The first author of the paper is Lu Lingyan, a Ph.D. candidate at SIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), an interaction between an electron\u2019s spin and its motion, plays a key role in creating topological insulators\u2014unusual materials that are insulating in their interior but can conduct electricity along their surfaces. Now, a new study published in Newton finds that increasing temperature weakens SOC in the topological insulator Bi2Se3, driving a transition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243615","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=243615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}