Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to British trio for study of exotic matter

Three British physicists working at US universities have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing the secrets of exotic matter.

What is Exotic Matter: In physics, exotic matter is matter that somehow deviates from normal matter and has "exotic" properties. A more broad definition of exotic matter is any kind of non-baryonic matter—that is not made of baryons, the subatomic particles, such as protons and neutrons, of which ordinary matter is composed. Exotic mass has been considered a colloquial term for matters such as dark matter, negative mass, or imaginary mass. However, exotic mass may exist, because it could support the Schwarzschild black hole theory by being used to stabilize the blackhole/wormhole counterpart.

The 8 million Swedish Krona prize (more than US $931,000) was divided between the three laureates according to their contributions -- one half awarded to David Thouless of the University of Washington, and the other half jointly to Duncan Haldane of Princeton University and Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University.


"This year's laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states," said the Nobel Foundation.

"They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films"

From cnn.com