Brown: Topological Waves May Help in Understanding Plasma Systems
May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 15 -- Brown University issued the following news release:
Nearly 50 years ago, Brown University physicist Michael Kosterlitz and his colleagues used the mathematics of topology -- the study of how objects can be deformed by stretching or twisting but not tearing or breaking -- to explain puzzling phase changes in certain types of matter. The work won Kosterlitz a share of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics and has led to the discovery of topological phenom . . .
Nearly 50 years ago, Brown University physicist Michael Kosterlitz and his colleagues used the mathematics of topology -- the study of how objects can be deformed by stretching or twisting but not tearing or breaking -- to explain puzzling phase changes in certain types of matter. The work won Kosterlitz a share of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics and has led to the discovery of topological phenom . . .