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Bound states in the continuum (BICs) defy conventional wisdom that assumes a spectral separation between propagating waves, that carry energy away, and spatially localized waves corresponding to discrete frequencies. They can be described…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are waves that remain localized even though they coexist with a continuous spectrum of radiating waves that can carry energy away. Their very existence defies conventional wisdom. Although BICs were…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-06 Yu Peng , Shaolin Liao

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 introduce a method for effectively identifying bound states in the continuum (BICs) - notably without computing the imaginary part of the eigenvalues - thereby simplifying the modeling and potentially reducing computation time. In real,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Vincent Laude , David Röhlig

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) refer to physical states that possess intrinsic zero dissipation loss even though they are located in the continuous energy spectrum. BICs have been widely explored in optical and acoustic structures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Yue Yu , Xiang Xi , Xiankai Sun

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) have some unusual properties and important applications in photonics. A periodic structure sandwiched between two homogeneous media is the most popular platform for observing BICs and realizing their…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

We investigate the occurrence of bound states in the continuum (BIC's) in serial structures of quantum dots coupled to an external waveguide, when some characteristic length of the system is changed. By resorting to a multichannel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Cattapan , P. Lotti

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are trapped or guided modes with their frequencies in the frequency intervals of the radiation modes. On periodic structures, a BIC is surrounded by a family of resonant modes with their quality factors…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

We show that a slab of wire medium composed of thin parallel metallic wires can naturally support bound states in the continuum (BICs) formed in an unusual way. The revealed BICs appear due to the strong spatial dispersion making possible…

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

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), referring to spatially localized bound states with energies falling within the range of extended modes, have been extensively investigated in single-particle systems, leading to diverse applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Na Sun , Weixuan Zhang , Hao Yuan , Xiangdong Zhang

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

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an unusual localized state that is embedded in a continuum of extended states. Here, we present the general condition for BICs to arise from wave equation separability and show that the directionality…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counter-intuitive way and the far-field radiation of photonic structures…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-30 Meng Kang , Tao Liu , C. T. Chan , Meng Xiao

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are spatially localized states with energy embedded in the continuum spectrum of extended states. The combination of BICs physics and nontrivial band topology theory giving rise to topological BICs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Shunda Yin , Liping Ye , Hailong He , Xueqin Huang , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Zhengyou Liu

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a spatially bounded energy eigenstate lying in a continuous spectrum of extended eigenstates. While various types of single-particle BICs have been found in the literature, whether or not BICs can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Shoki Sugimoto , Yuto Ashida , Masahito Ueda

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

Starting from a potential with a continuum of energy eigenstates, we show how the methods of supersymmetric quantum mechanics can be used to generate families of potentials with bound states in the continuum [BICs]. We also find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Pappademos , U. Sukhatme , A. Pagnamenta
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