Nuclear Fusion 73 - Brown University Physicists Are Studying Topological Waves In Plasma
Topology is the mathematical study of how objects can be deformed by stretching or twisting but not tearing or breaking. Almost fifty years ago, Brown University physicist Michael Kosterlitz and his team employed topology to elucidate puzzling phase changes in particular types of matter. That work won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics for Kosterlitz in 2016.