Colloquium: Zoo of quantum-topological phases of matter

What are topological phases of matter? First, they are phases of matter at zero temperature. Second, they have a nonzero energy gap for the excitations above the ground state. Third, they are disordered liquids that seem to have no feature. But those disordered liquids actually can have rich pattern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117105
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-581X