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Researchers propose new ways to recreate fractional quantum Hall physics using ultracold atoms and molecules.

Surface spectroscopy shows that a material long known as a Kondo insulator also exhibits the metallic surface states of a topological insulator.

Adding impurities to a topological superfluid—a predicted state of matter believed to host Majorana particles—may be the best way to prove it exists.

An ultra-high-speed camera has captured the cooling of surface electrons in topological insulators.

The properties that characterize topological insulators, such as symmetry protected surface states, also appear in materials with quasiperiodic order.

The combination of the Josephson effect and topological order provides a testing ground for the emergence of Majorana fermions in solid-state systems.