{"id":574833,"date":"2019-02-04T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=dd4a63c85e5b310668a4137952323522"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:49:11","slug":"physicists-uncover-the-topological-origin-of-surface-electromagnetic-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=574833","title":{"rendered":"Physicists uncover the topological origin of surface electromagnetic waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In work that provides insights for several areas of wave physics, including Maxwell electromagnetism, topological quantum states, and plasmonics\/metamaterials, scientists have shown that the well-known surface electromagnetic waves at interfaces between homogeneous isotropic media, obtained within classical Maxwell&#8217;s electromagnetism, also have a purely topological origin, similar to quantum topological states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In work that provides insights for several areas of wave physics, including Maxwell electromagnetism, topological quantum states, and plasmonics\/metamaterials, scientists have shown that the well-known surface electromagnetic waves at interfaces betwee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574834,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574833\/revisions\/574834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}