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Physicists explore exotic states of matter inspired by Nobel-winning research

  • Written by Nandini Trivedi, Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University
imageThings are kind of different on the quantum level.Nandini Trivedi, CC BY

The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, three theoretical physicists whose research used the unexpected mathematical lens of topology to investigate phases of matter and the transitions between them.

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