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Charlie Kane and Eugene Mele’s groundbreaking theories on the existence of a new class of materials continues to inspire an upcoming generation of physics researchers.

 E-Mail IMAGE: A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called "topological quantum states, " which, has implications for many technological fields of study, especially... view more  Credit: Kevin Nuckolls, Department of Physics, Princeton University Electrons inhabit a strange and topsy-turvy world. These infinitesimally small particles have never ceased to amaze and mystify despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, in an even more amazing twist, physicists have disco...