About
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. But ... what does that mean? Fan Zhang helps decode some seriously tricky science. [Directed by Anton Trofimov, narrated by Addison Anderson].
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED-Ed
- Speaker
- Fan Zhang
- Year
- 2017
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics, Engineering, Art, architecture and design, Teaching and learning
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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