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In this chapter, criteria for existence of propagating optical modes which are transversely bound at the interface of two materials are studied. In particular, quite general cases are considered, where the materials involved are assumed to…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-19 Nahid Talebi

A lattice symmetry, if being nonsymmorphic, is defined by combining a point group symmetry with a fractional lattice translation that cannot be removed by changing the lattice origin. Nonsymmorphic symmetry has a substantial influence on…

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The interaction between the electromagnetic field and plasmonic nanostructures leads to both the strong linear response and inherent nonlinear behavior. In this paper, a time-domain hydrodynamic model for describing the motion of electrons…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-19 Ming Fang , Zhixiang Huang , Wei E. I. Sha , Xianliang Wu

Photonic devices rarely provide both elaborate spatial control and sharp spectral control over an incoming wavefront. In optical metasurfaces, for example, the localized modes of individual meta-units govern the wavefront shape over a broad…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Andrea Alù , Nanfang Yu

Helicity is a topological invariant that measures the linkage and knottedness of lines, tubes and ribbons. As such, it has found myriads of applications in astrophysics and solar physics, in fluid dynamics, in atmospheric sciences, and in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni , M. E. Brachet

The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed. In particular, how the paramount and genuinely NH concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich , Flore K. Kunst

Solutions of the boundary-value problem for electromagnetic waves guided by a layer of a homogeneous and isotropic (metal or dielectric) material sandwiched between a structurally chiral material (SCM) and a periodically multi-layered…

While topology can impose obstructions to exponentially localized Wannier functions, certain topological insulators are exempt from such Wannier obstructions. The absence of the Wannier obstructions can further accompany topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Daichi Nakamura , Ken Shiozaki , Kenji Shimomura , Masatoshi Sato , Kohei Kawabata

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

The advent of non-Hermitian physics has enriched the plethora of topological phases to include phenomena without Hermitian counterparts. Despite being among the most well-studied uniquely non-Hermitian features, the topological properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Marcus Stålhammar , Lukas Rødland

A new method to find the propagation equation system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium is proposed. The aim is to let the effects appear spontaneously, deleting as far as possible the phenomenological…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-08 Pierre Godard , Frederic Zolla , Andre Nicolet

The topology of non-Hermitian systems is drastically shaped by the non-Hermitian skin effect, which leads to the generalized bulk-boundary correspondence and non-Bloch band theory. The essential part in formulations of bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Fei Song , Shunyu Yao , Zhong Wang

By uncovering novel aspects of second harmonic generation in aluminum we show that there are unusual and remarkable consequences of resonant absorption, namely an unexpectedly critical role that bound electrons play for light-matter…

The bulk-boundary correspondence predicts the existence of boundary modes localized at the edges of topologically nontrivial systems. The wavefunctions of hermitian boundary modes can be obtained as the eigenmodes of a modified Jackiw-Rebbi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Pasquale Marra , Angela Nigro

This study introduces a pore morphology algorithm that emphasizes the central role of topology in multiphase flow through porous media. Analysis of drainage in lattice-based pore networks identifies two key quantities, the percolation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-27 Fernando Alonso-Marroquin

We analyze chiral topological edge modes in a non-Hermitian variant of the 2D Dirac equation. Such modes appear at interfaces between media with different "masses" and/or signs of the "non-Hermitian charge". The existence of these edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Daniel Leykam , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Chunli Huang , Y. D. Chong , Franco Nori

In this paper, two-dimensional periodic capillary-gravity waves travelling under the effect of a vertical electric field are considered. The full system is a nonlinear, two-layered and free boundary problem. The interface dynamics arises…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Dai Guowei , Xu Fei , Zhang Yong

Topological edge zero modes and states of self stress have been intensively studied in discrete lattices at the Maxwell point, offering robust properties concerning surface and interface stiffness and stress focusing. In this paper we…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-27 Kai Sun , Xiaoming Mao

One-dimensional structures of non-Hermitian plasmonic metallic nanospheres are studied in this paper. For a single sphere, solving Maxwell's equations results in quasi-stationary eigenmodes with complex quantized frequencies. Coupled mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Amin Tayebi , Scott Rice

Exceptional points play a pivotal role in the topology of non-Hermitian systems, and significant advances have been made in classifying exceptional points and exploring the associated phenomena. Exceptional surfaces, which are hypersurfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Hongwei Jia , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Jing Hu , Yixin Xiao , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan