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Metasurfaces have been used to realize optical functions such as focusing and beam steering. They use sub-wavelength nanostructures to control the local amplitude and phase of light. Here we show that such control could also enable a new…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Zhicheng Wu , Ming Zhou , Erfan Khoram , Boyuan Liu , Zongfu Yu

Designer manipulation of light at the nanoscale is key to several next-generation technologies, from sensing to optical computing. One way to manipulate light is to design a material structured at the sub-wavelength scale, a metamaterial,…

We introduce and theoretically demonstrate a quantum metamaterial made of dense ultracold neutral atoms loaded into an inherently defect-free artificial crystal of light, immune to well-known critical chal- lenges inevitable in conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Pankaj K. Jha , Michael Mrejen , Jeongmin Kim , Chihhui Wu , Yuan Wang , Yuri V. Rostovtsev , Xiang Zhang

Metasurfaces, with their superior capability in manipulating the optical wavefront at the subwavelength scale and low manufacturing complexity, have shown great potential for planar photonics and novel optical devices. However, vector field…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Weimin Ye , Qinghua Guo , Yuanjiang Xiang , Dianyuan Fan , Shuang Zhang

Metasurface, a kind of two-dimensional structured medium, represents a novel platform to manipulate the propagation of light at subwavelength scale. In linear optical regime, many interesting topics such as planar metalens, metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Yutao Tang , Junhong Deng , King Fai Li , Mingke Jin , Jack Ng , Guixin Li

In this paper we consider a two-dimensional metamaterial comprising an array of qubits (two level quantum objects). Here we show that a two-dimensional quantum metamaterial may be controlled, e.g. via the application of a magnetic flux, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 M. J. Everitt , J. H. Samson , S. E. Savelev , T. P. Spiller , R. Wilson , A. M. Zagoskin

Enhancing optical nonlinearities so that they become appreciable on the single photon level and lead to nonclassical light fields has been a central objective in quantum optics for many years. After this has been achieved in individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Michael J. Hartmann

Structured quantum light is crucial for high-dimensional quantum information processing, yet its direct generation from quantum emitters remains challenging due to their intrinsic locality and omnidirectional radiation. Metasurfaces have…

Natural materials typically interact weakly with the magnetic component of light which greatly limits their applications. This has led to the development of artificial metamaterials and metasurfaces. However, natural atoms, where only…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-23 Kyle E. Ballantine , Janne Ruostekoski

The development of fault-tolerant quantum computers based on superconducting circuits faces critical challenges in qubit coherence, connectivity, and scalability. This review establishes metamaterials, artificial structures with on-demand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Alex Krasnok

Metasurfaces play a key role in functionalizing light at the nanoscale. Existing dielectric metasurfaces, however, are often limited to geometric primitives and their usage in emergent hybrid metasurfaces is hampered as confinement of light…

Recent experiments have revealed ultrastrong coupling between light and matter as a promising avenue for modifying material properties, such as electrical transport, chemical reaction rates, and even superconductivity. Here, we explore…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-07 Josephine Yu , Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljacic

Metasurfaces are optically thin metamaterials that promise complete control of the wavefront of light but are primarily used to control only the phase of light. Here, we present an approach, simple in concept and in practice, that uses…

Engineering the optical properties using artificial nanostructured media known as metamaterials has led to breakthrough devices with capabilities from super-resolution imaging to invisibility. In this article, we review metamaterials for…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-24 C. L. Cortes , W. Newman , S. Molesky , Z. Jacob

Surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures offer great opportunities to guide and manipulate light on the nanoscale. In the design of novel plasmonic devices, a central topic is to clarify the intricate relationship between the…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sanghyeon Yu , Habib Ammari

Metamaterials, artificially structured electromagnetic (EM) materials, have enabled the realization of many unconventional electromagnetic properties not found in nature, such as negative refractive index, magnetic response, invisibility…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Weixuan Zhang , Kaiyang Cheng , Chao Wu , Yi Wang , Hongqiang Li , Xiangdong Zhang

Created surfaces or meta surfaces, composed of appropriately shaped sub-wavelength structures, namely, meta-atoms, control light at wavelength scales. Historically, meta surfaces have used radiating metallic resonators as wavelength…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-26 A. Jain , P. Moitra , Th. Koschny , J. Valentine , C. M. Soukoulis

Metasurface-based optical elements typically manipulate light waves by imparting space-variant changes in the amplitude and phase with a dense array of scattering nanostructures. The highly-localized and low optical-quality-factor (Q) modes…

Metasurfaces offered great opportunities to control electromagnetic (EM) waves, but currently available meta-devices typically work either in pure reflection or pure transmission mode, leaving half of EM space completely unexplored. Here,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tong Cai , GuangMing Wang , ShiWei Tang , HeXiu Xu , JingWen Duan , HuiJie Guo , FuXin Guan , ShuLin Sun , Qiong He , Lei Zhou

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…