In the last decade, topological photonics has attracted increasing attention due to the unique prospects to achieve light manipulation with high performance in terms of robustness and stability.

Topological materials are exciting because local defects and imperfections in them don’t affect their properties. But they are not immune to larger-scale, non-local disorder within the material.

The robust generation and propagation of multiphoton quantum states are crucial for applications in quantum information, computing, and communications. Although photons are intrinsically well isolated ...

Fig. 1: Schematic picture of the experimental setup showing a Chern insulator (purple) with attached electrodes (gold) and a SQUID magnetometer (shown as a loop on top of the insulator), which allows ...

Topological insulators are regarded as the key to novel 'spintronic' devices and quantum computers of the future due to their unique electronic properties. Physicists have now been able to understand ...

Microsoft team behind the recent breakthrough in physics and quantum computing demonstrated by the new Majorana 1 chip, engineered from an entirely new material that has the potential to scale to ...

'Trimming' the edge-states of a topological insulator yields a new class of material featuring unconventional 'two way' edge transport in a new theoretical study. The new material, a topological ...

An international team led by researchers at Nankai University in China and at University of Zagreb in Croatia, along with team at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Canada, ...