Topological effects might be hiding inside perfectly ordinary materials, waiting to reveal bizarre new particles or bolster quantum computing.
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Castelvecchi, D. The strange topology that is reshaping physics. Nature 547, 272–274 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/547272a
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