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We show that chiral co-propagating Luttinger liquids can be created and tuned by shining high frequency, circularly polarized light, normal to the layers, with different polarizations on two sections of bilayer graphene. By virtue of the…

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We develop a semiclassical theory of laser oscillation into a chiral edge state of a topological photonic system endowed with a frequency-dependent gain. As an archetypal model of this physics, we consider a Harper-Hofstadter lattice…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-25 Matteo Seclì , Tomoki Ozawa , Massimo Capone , Iacopo Carusotto

We investigate elastic periodic structures characterized by topologically nontrivial bandgaps supporting backscattering suppressed edge waves. These edge waves are topologically protected and are obtained by breaking inversion symmetry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Raj Kumar Pal , Massimo Ruzzene

With the wave interferometric approach, we study how extrinsically multiple coherent waves excitation can dramatically alter the overall scattering states, resulting in tailoring the energy assignment among radiation and dissipation. To…

A simplified model of periodic chiral beam-lattices containing local resonators has been formulated to obtain a better understanding of the influence of the chirality and of the dynamic characteristics of the local resonators on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-10 Andrea Bacigalupo , Luigi Gambarotta

Chirality is inherent to a broad range of systems, including in solid-state and wave physics. The precession (chiral motion) of electron spins in magnetic materials, forming spin waves, has various properties and many applications in…

Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

Realizing novel topological states in magnonic systems unlocks robust, low-power spin-wave devices. In this letter, we show that incorporating left-handed spin waves (antimagnons) fundamentally reorganizes band topology, and enables tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yifan Liu , Zehan Chen , Qiming Shao

The surface of a topological insulator hosts Dirac electronic states with the spin-momentum locking, which constrains spin orientation perpendicular to electron momentum. As a result, collective plasma excitations in the interacting Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Mehdi Kargarian

We numerically investigate and experimentally demonstrate an in-situ topological band transition in a highly tunable mechanical system made of cylindrical granular particles. This system allows us to tune its inter-particle stiffness in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-07-19 Rajesh Chaunsali , Aman Thakkar , Eunho Kim , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jinkyu Yang

We study the interaction between a ferromagnetically ordered medium and the surface states of a topological insulator with a general surface termination. This interaction is strongly crystal face dependent and can generate chiral states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Achieving robust transport has attracted much attention in both electronic and photonic systems. Time-reversal invariant photonic crystal can be employed to realize backscattering-immune chiral state, but the chiral bandgap is topologically…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-11 Wen-Jie Chen , Shao-Ji Jiang , Xiao-Dong Chen , Jian-Wen Dong , C. T. Chan

Designing unconventional interactions between single phonons and spins is fascinating for its applications in quantum phononics. Here, we propose a reliable scheme for coupling spins and phonons in phononic dimer and trimer lattices, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Xing-Liang Dong , Cai-Peng Shen , Shao-Yan Gao , Hong-Rong Li , Hong Gao , Fu-Li Li , Peng-Bo Li

Topological photonics has attracted widespread research attention in the past decade due to its fundamental interest and unique manner in controlling light propagation for advanced applications. Paradigmatic approaches have been proposed to…

We study the propagation of in-plane elastic waves in a soft thin strip; a specific geometrical and mechanical hybrid framework which we expect to exhibit Dirac-like cone. We separate the low frequencies guided modes (typically 100 Hz for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-30 Maxime Lanoy , Fabrice Lemoult , Antonin Eddi , Claire Prada

The particle wave duality sets a fundamental correspondence between optics and quantum mechanics. Within this framework, the propagation of quasiparticles can give rise to superposition phenomena which, like for electromagnetic waves, can…

Topological insulators represent a new state of matter where the topological nature of the bulk bands dictates the existence of a surface state with unique properties. These materials are predicted to host exotic states such as Majorana…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-29 Yoshinori Okada , Wenwen Zhou , Chetan. Dhital , D. Walkup , Ying Ran , Z. Wang , Stephen D. Wilson , V. Madhavan

We show that multiple layered Dirac cones can emerge in the band structure of properly addressed multicomponent cold fermionic gases in optical lattices. The layered Dirac cones contain multiple copies of massless spin-1/2 Dirac fermions at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Z. Lan , A. Celi , W. Lu , P. Ohberg , M. Lewenstein

This work studies the resonance excitations of the three-dimensional skyrmions lattice in the finite thickness plate of an isotropic chiral magnet using spin dynamics simulations. We found that the absorption spectra and resonance modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Andrii S. Savchenko , Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Filipp N. Rybakov , Stefan Blügel , Nikolai S. Kiselev

We investigate interference between topological interfacial modes in a semiconductor photonic crystal platform with Dirac frequency dispersions, which can be exploited for interferometry switch. It is showcased that, in a two-in/two-out…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-21 Xing-Xiang Wang , Tomohiro Amemiya , Xiao Hu