SosheiscurioustolearnmoreabouttheNobelLaureateswhodiscovered a newsetofregularitiesinthewaymatterBehavesTestlearnsthatDavidHollis, DuncanHaldaneandMichaelCostalIt's madenewdiscoveriesinphysics, usingconceptsfoundin a branchofmathematicscalledtopology.
Topologydescribespropertiesthatairpreservedunderdeformationandmanipulationsintopology, anintegernumbercalledatop a Logicalinvariantcanbeassignedtoallobjectsthatsharethesameproperties.
Objectscan't transformfromonetopologyclasstoanotherunless a significantforceisappliedtothem, likecuttingblueingortellingthemtheirtop a logicalpropertiesairprotectedagainstsmallchanges.
Thisexperimentshowedthatinverythinlayersandinthepresenceofhighmagneticfields, electronsbehaveinsuch a waythattheconductinstthroughthesystemisrobustagainstdisorder, andcanOnleychangeinstepsasthemagneticfieldisincreased.
AllDanepredictedthat a similareffectwaspossiblewithouthaving a magneticfieldbeforescientistsbelievephasetransitionscouldnotoccurinextremelythinlayersofmatter, however, costherlips, andSolisfoundthatitwaspossibleforvorticestoappearinsometwo D materialsbecauseoftheirtop a logicalnature.