论文标题
无定形物质的拓扑阶段
Topological phases of amorphous matter
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论文摘要
尽管不依赖于晶体对称性，但通常会在晶体对称性的帮助下理解和预测物质的拓扑阶段。在本章中，我们回顾了如何在非晶系统中显示出拓扑阶段的出现。我们总结了拓扑状态的特性，并讨论了转化不变性的处置如何激发新工具的激增，以在理论上和实验性地表征无定形系统中的拓扑状态。无定形系统的普遍性与拓扑的鲁棒性相结合，有可能在我们对物质阶段的分类中带来新的基本理解，并激发新的技术发展。
Topological phases of matter are often understood and predicted with the help of crystal symmetries, although they don't rely on them to exist. In this chapter we review how topological phases have been recently shown to emerge in amorphous systems. We summarize the properties of topological states and discuss how disposing of translational invariance has motivated the surge of new tools to characterize topological states in amorphous systems, both theoretically and experimentally. The ubiquity of amorphous systems combined with the robustness of topology has the potential to bring new fundamental understanding in our classification of phases of matter, and inspire new technological developments.
