Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the award for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological.

邓肯·霍尔丹 (Duncan Haldane) 和迈克尔·科斯特里茨 (Michael Kosterlitz) 因发现即使是最小尺度的微观物质也能表现出宏观性质和拓扑相而获奖。