How to Use topological in a Sentence

topological

adjective

• The painting is also a superb topological map of open wounds.
  — Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever, Vulture, 11 May 2023
• The result is the first direct measurement of the topological order of a quantum spin liquid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• The group has since gained even better control over the BEC medium, enabling them to detect the decay of the knots and the formation of a new type of topological defect (a vortex).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2019
• Alternating dark and light lines represent lines of constant gap height, much like the lines on a topological map.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• One potential way to reduce the heat problem is with a topological design.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• This means that from a topological point of view, a curve actually looks like a two-dimensional surface — and that surface can have holes.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
• As human culture tried to make sense of life in the middle of a global, decentralized network, topological metaphors ruled.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
• The field of topological quantum computing still has promise, but the task has shown itself to be even more difficult than researchers first imagined.
  — Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
• In the paper, the scientists use pressure maps—like topological geographical maps, but for the depth of each footprint.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2020
• The topological approach reduces the problem to the barest facts, Marston says: Earth is rotating and has an equator where the Coriolis force switches direction.
  — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
• Optimization was used to increase a measure called the topological gap.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• The three men invigorated the field of topological chemistry, the academy said on Wednesday.
  — Kenneth Chang and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2016
• Some researchers, most notably at Microsoft, hope to sidestep this challenge by developing a type of qubit out of clusters of electrons known as a topological qubit.
  — Tom Simonite Sophia Chen, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
• The fundamental groupoid of the space formed by the inflatable exterior of a beach ball, a sphere in topological terms, also has this description: there is a unique path up to homotopy between any two points.
  — Emily Riehl, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2021
• Job one for the Equator was a general bathymetric map—an underwater topological survey—of fifty-seven thousand square miles straddling the line of the Seventh Arc.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• The molecules are the atomic equivalent of the Borromean rings, a topological curiosity in which three rings intertwine so that removing any one ring causes the other two to fall apart.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2017
• Moore was the son of a pit deputy, and his later explorations of the body as a topological puzzle made up of infolding solids and voids may have begun with experiencing the landscape as an intestinal space of sunken shafts and snaking tunnels.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
• This property, called topological stability, is shared by geometric objects such as the Möbius strip, a shape that can be obtained by joining the two ends of a ribbon together with a half-twist in between.
  — Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2013
• On the surface of a topological insulator, electrons flow smoothly, while on the inside, electrons are immobile.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
• By some trick of physics, the topological twists in the interior translated into an edge current that flowed without dissipating.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
• So, no one was exactly sure if a topological insulator laser could exist.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• Morava K-theory was created in the 1970s to expand the tower of topological theories.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• The researchers’ simulations successfully recreated what a topological soliton would look like if placed in front of a camera lens.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• This distinction, between topological and smooth equivalence, doesn’t apply in three dimensions and is one of the deep mysteries of four-dimensional space — though less so now for Seifert surfaces.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
• To create the more error-proof quantum material, Potter’s team looked to topological phases.
  — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 26 July 2022
• In this new perspective, topological spaces are thought of as being assembled from infinite points of dust glued together.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2015
• The company is researching the development of a topological qubit.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
• This system marks the birth of topological codes—and with it, another connection between condensed matter physics and quantum error correction.
  — Zaira Nazario, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Regardless, Frolov at the University of Pittsburgh says that neither demonstration appears to have brought the field closer to the true technological purpose of a topological qubit.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• One such topological excitation, called a skyrmion, has been observed in multiple materials.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024