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Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are localized modes residing in the radiation continuum. They were first predicted for single-particle states, and became a general feature of many wave systems. In many-body quantum physics, it is still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Boning Huang , Yongguan Ke , Honghua Zhong , Yuri S. Kivshar , Chaohong Lee

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have exhibited extraordinary properties in photonics for enhanced light-matter interactions that enable appealing applications in nonlinear optics, biosensors, and ultrafast optical switches. The most…

We present a distinct mechanism for the formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs). In chiral quantum systems there appear zero-energy states in which the wave function has finite amplitude only in one of the subsystems defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Jordi Mur-Petit , Rafael A. Molina

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are unusual solutions of wave equations describing light or matter: they are discrete and spatially bounded, but exist at the same energy as a continuum of states which propagate to infinity. Until…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-24 Bo Zhen , Chia Wei Hsu , Ling Lu , A. Doug Stone , Marin Soljacic

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are polarization singularities in momentum space whose topological charges (TCs) govern advanced light-matter interactions. While lattice symmetry protects the existence of robust BICs at the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Keren Wang , Lujun Huang , Wei Wang

Light-actuated motors, vehicles, and even space sails have drawn tremendous attention for basic science and applications in space, biomedical, and sensing domains. Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) are topological singularities of…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Haoye Qin , Walid Redjem , Boubacar Kante

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are radiationless localized states embedded in the part of the parameter space that otherwise corresponds to radiative modes. Many decades after their original prediction and early observations in…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jordi Gomis-Bresco , David Artigas , Lluis Torner

In this work, we investigate the bound states in the continuum (BIC) of a one-dimensional spin-1 flat band system. It is found that, when the potential is sufficiently strong, there exists an effective attractive potential well surrounded…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-12 Yi-Cai Zhang

We propose a new paradigm for realizing bound states in the continuum (BICs) by engineering the environment of a system to control the number of available radiation channels. Using this method, we demonstrate that a photonic crystal slab…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alexander Cerjan , Chia Wei Hsu , Mikael C. Rechtsman

We theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate that genuine bound states in the continuum (BICs) -- polarization-protected BICs -- can be completely localized within finite-size solid resonators. This bound mode is realized in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yeongtae Jang , Seokwoo Kim , Dongwoo Lee , Eunho Kim , Junsuk Rrho

We consider the diffraction of time-harmonic plane waves by a periodic structure, governed by the Helmholtz equation. Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quasi-periodic fields that remain $L^{2}$-bounded over one period and occur at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ya Yan Lu , Jiaxin Zhou

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quantum states with normalizable wave functions and energies that lie within the continuous spectrum for which extended or dispersive states are also available. These special states, which have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Ricardo Y. Díaz-Bonifaz , Carlos Ramírez

Using formalism of effective Hamiltonian we consider bound states in continuum (BIC). They are those eigen states of non-hermitian effective Hamiltonian which have real eigen values. It is shown that BICs are orthogonal to open channels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Evgeny N. Bulgakov , Konstantin N. Pichugin , Almas F. Sadreev , Ingrid Rotter

We study bound states embedded into the continuum of edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators. These states emerge in the presence of a short-range potential of a structural defect coupled to the boundary. In this case the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

Bound state in the continuum (BIC) and quasi-BIC represent a remarkable class of wave functions that disobey conventional intuition by exhibiting spatially localized modes embedded in the continuum spectrum. In recent years, these states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Zeyu Rao , Changling Zou , Yang Chen , Guangcan Guo , Ming Gong

We consider bound states in the continuum (BICs) in a 1D multilayered system of an anisotropic defect layer embedded into an anisotropic photonic crystal. We analytically demonstrate that an anisotropic defect layer embedded into…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-23 Pavel S. Pankin , Dmitrii N. Maksimov , Ivan V. Timofeev

Systems with space-periodic Hamiltonians have unique scattering properties. The discrete translational symmetry associated with periodicity of the Hamiltonian creates scattering channels that govern the scattering process. We consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Max D. Porter , Aaron Barr , Ariel Barr , L. E. Reichl

On periodic structures, a bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a standing or propagating Bloch wave with a frequency in the radiation continuum. Some BICs (e.g., antisymmetric standing waves) are symmetry-protected, since they have…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-23 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), known for their theoretically infinite quality (Q) factors and strong field localization, hold great promise for high-performance photonic devices. However, conventional true BICs typically rely on…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yiyun Yan , Yichao Liu , Fei Sun , Yuxin Zhou

Bound states in continuum (BICs) are localized states of a system possessing significantly large life times with applications across various branches of science. In this work, we propose an expedient protocol to engineer BICs which involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Qingtian Miao , Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair , Girish S. Agarwal