GK Question

science hard true_false

True or False: Topological insulators conduct electricity on their surface but are insulators in their bulk.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: True

Topological insulators have protected surface states due to time-reversal symmetry, enabling dissipationless electron transport. Promising for spintronics and quantum computing. Nobel Prize in Physics 2016. [[NCERT Physics Class 12]]

Topic Physics - Condensed Matter
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