Light that twists as it travels and materials whose internal order is knotted like a pretzel are starting to collide in the ...

In order: space, space with a black hole in it, space with a theorized topological soliton. Gif: PIERRE HEIDMANN/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object ...

A new topological phase in a two-dimensional system has been discovered by scientists at Cambridge University. This can be used as a new platform for examining topological physics in nanoscale devices ...

It was recently discovered that in materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), which are less symmetric than graphene, ferroelectricity occurs when one layer slides over the other and breaks a ...

The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids that make LCD screens shine? They exist, and in a new Nature Physics study, ...

For decades mathematicians have searched for a specific pair of surfaces that can’t be transformed into each other in four-dimensional space. Now they’ve found them. In geometry and the closely ...

Cambridge researchers have discovered a new topological phase in a two-dimensional system, which could be used as a new platform for exploring topological physics in nanoscale devices. Two-dimensional ...