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Surface plasmons have attracted growing interest from the photonics community due to their inherent ability to controllably confine light below the diffraction limit and their direct application in trapping and transporting matter at the…

Topological physics provides novel insights for designing functional photonic devices, such as magnetic-free optical diodes, which are important in optical engineering and quantum information processing. Past efforts mostly focus on the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xiao Liu , Jiefei Wang , Ruosong Mao , Huizhu Hu , Shi-Yao Zhu , Xingqi Xu , Han Cai , Da-Wei Wang

Harnessing topological effects offers a promising route to protect quantum states of light from imperfections, potentially enabling more robust platforms for quantum information processing. This capability is particularly relevant for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 A. Zecchetto , J. -R. Coudevylle , M. Morassi , A. Lemaître , M. I. Amanti , S. Ducci , F. Baboux

We study photonic crystal fibers and ring resonators with topological features induced by Aubry- Andre-Harper modulations of the cladding. We find non trivial gaps and edge states at the interface between regions with different Chern…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Laura Pilozzi , Daniel Leykam , Zhigang Chen , Claudio Conti

The interaction of electromagnetic waves with metallic nanostructures generates resonant oscillations of the conduction-band electrons at the metal surface. These resonances can lead to large enhancements of the incident field and to the…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Ferran Vidal-Codina , Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Jaime Peraire

Electromagnetic topological insulators have been explored extensively due to the robust edge states they support. In this work, we propose a topological electromagnetic system based on a line defect in topologically nontrivial photonic…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-27 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Zhihao Lan , Wei E. I. Sha

We study plasmonic time crystals, an extension of dielectric-based photonic time crystals to plasmonic media. Remarkably, we demonstrate that such systems may amplify both longitudinal and transverse modes. In particular, we show that…

Scattering immune propagation of light in topological photonic systems may revolutionarize the design of integrated photonic circuits for information processing and communications. In optics, various photonic topological circuits have been…

Optical skyrmions are members of the emerging topological branch of solid-state physics and photonics, allowing for control over topological light textures through light-matter interactions. However, in nanophotonics their practical…

It is shown that the concept of topological phase transitions can be used to design nonlinear photonic structures exhibiting power thresholds and discontinuities in their transmittance. This provides a novel route to devising nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-15 Xin Zhou , You Wang , Daniel Leykam , Y. D. Chong

We demonstrate that higher-order electric susceptibilities in crystals can be enhanced and understood through nontrivial topological invariants and quantum geometry, using one-dimensional $\pi$-conjugated chains as representative model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager , Michele Pizzochero

We propose a nanophotonic platform for topological quantum optics. Our system is composed of a two-dimensional lattice of non-linear quantum emitters with optical transitions embedded in a photonic crystal slab. The emitters interact…

We propose to use sub-wavelength confinement of light associated with the near field of plasmonic systems to create nanoscale optical lattices for ultracold atoms. Our approach combines the unique coherence properties of isolated atoms with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 M. Gullans , T. Tiecke , D. E. Chang , J. Feist , J. D. Thompson , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller , M. D. Lukin

Photonic topological insulators (PTIs) have been widely studied due to the robustness of energy transport via supported edge modes immune to structural disorder. In this work, a topological gap waveguide is constructed by introducing line…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Yan Ren , Hai Lin , Rui Zhou , Xintong Shi , Jing Jin , Y. Liu

We study two coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains system, which is shown to contain rich quantum phases associated with topological invariants protected by symmetries. In the weak coupling region, the system supports two non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Ci. Li , Sen. Lin , Gang. Zhang , Zhi. Song

Holographic superconductor model represents various inhomogeneous solutions with homogeneous sources. In this paper, we study inhomogeneous structures in the presence of the homogeneous current and the chemical potential. We find single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-09 Masataka Matsumoto , Ryosuke Yoshii

In this article, we study the plasmonic resonance of infinite photonic crystal mounted by the double negative nanoparticles in two dimensions. The corresponding physical model is described by the Helmholz equation with so called Bloch wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Guang-Hui Zheng

Progress on two-dimensional materials has shown that valleys, as energy extrema in a hexagonal first Brillouin zone, provides a new degree of freedom for information manipulation. Then valley Hall topological insulators supporting…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-25 Z. Yu , H. Lin , R. Zhou , Z. Li , Z. Mao , K. Peng , Y. Liu , X. Shi

Waveguides are fundamental components in communication systems. However, they suffer from reflection and scattering losses at sharp routes or defects. The breakthrough in developing topological photonic crystals (PhCs) provides promising…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Rui Zhou , Minglin L. N. Chen , Xingtong Shi , Yan Ren , Zihao Yu , Yu Tian , Y. Liu , Hai Lin

Topological photonics promotes a novel approach to resilient light manipulation by exploiting spatio-temporal symmetries of the system and dual symmetry of electromagnetic field. Various prospective device applications pose the need to…