topological
Americanadjective
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The findings also provide a foundation for future studies of topological light and may contribute to advances in photonics, advanced materials, information processing, and next generation computing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The team found that the tin telluride film is compressed by the underlying substrate, creating strain that is essential for stabilizing the material's topological state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
First principles quantum mechanical calculations confirmed that the observed edge states have a topological origin.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Their measurements uncovered a dense network of magnetic nodal lines, which are special topological band crossings where two spin-polarized electronic states intersect continuously without forming an energy gap.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
A topological map is a very simplified map, not to scale, so with no relation to the real distances.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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