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We design compact waveguide couplers via impedance-tunable transformation optics. By tuning impedance coefficients in the original space, two-dimensional metallic and dielectric waveguide couplers are designed with a high efficiency.…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 Jun Cao , Lifa Zhang , Weifeng Jiang , Senlin Yan , Xiaohan Sun

A primary motivation for studying topological matter regards the protection of topological order from its environment. In this work, we study a topological emitter array coupled to an electromagnetic environment. The photon-emitter coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Wei Nie , Mauro Antezza , Yu-xi Liu , Franco Nori

Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Jing Zhang , Bo Peng , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Yu-xi Liu , Hui Jing , Xin-you Lu , Yu-long Liu , Lan Yang , Franco Nori

Teleportation is the most widely discussed application of the basic principles of quantum mechanics. Fundamentally, this process describes the transmission of information, which involves transport of neither matter nor energy. The implicit…

Topological effects typically discussed in the context of quantum physics are emerging as one of the central paradigms of physics. Here, we demonstrate the role of topology in energy transport through dimerized micro- and nano-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Chih-Chun Chien , Kirill A. Velizhanin , Yonatan Dubi , B. Robert Ilic , Michael Zwolak

Efficient transduction of electromagnetic signals between different frequency scales is an essential ingredient for modern communication technologies as well as for the emergent field of quantum information processing. Recent advances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Vincent E. Elfving , Sumanta Das , Anders S. Sørensen

The introduction of topology unravels a new chapter of physics. Topological systems provide unique edge/interfacial quantum states which are expected to contribute to the development of novel spintronics and open the door to robust quantum…

We present analysis of a single channel interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit coupling breaks the spin-rotational symmetry from SU(2) to U(1) and breaks inversion symmetry. The low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Nikolaos Kainaris , Sam T. Carr

Inspired by the topological insulator circuit proposed and experimentally verified by Jia., et al. \cite{1}, we theoretically realized the topological Lieb lattice, a line centered square lattice with rich topological properties, in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Weiwei Zhu , Shanshan Hou , Yang Long , Hong Chen , Jie Ren

Periodically-driven quantum systems can exhibit topologically non-trivial behaviour, even when their quasi-energy bands have zero Chern numbers. Much work has been conducted on non-interacting quantum-mechanical models where this kind of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-03 Callum W. Duncan , Patrik Ohberg , Manuel Valiente

Topological phononic crystals (PCs) are periodic artificial structures which can support nontrivial acoustic topological bands, and their topological properties are linked to the existence of topological edge modes. Most previous studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Degang Zhao , Meng Xiao , C. W. Ling , C. T. Chan , Kin Hung Fung

Millimeter-wave technologies are essential for future high-speed wireless communications. However, a fundamental challenge remains in the form of severe free-space path loss, where the power density decreases inversely with the square of…

Metasurfaces can manipulate the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves, offering applications ranging from antenna design and cloaking to imaging and communication. Additionally, temporal, and non-linear metasurfaces have the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Pouria Sanjari , Firooz Aflatouni

Topological wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies have attracted considerable interest due to their high transmission efficiency and robustness in coupled array configurations. However, conventional periodic and quasi-periodic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Luyao Wan , Han Zhang , Yunhui Li , Yaping Yang , Hong Chen , Zhiwei Guo

This study theoretically and experimentally investigates the transmission properties of a metamaterial slab comprised of two layers of metallic fish-scale structure arrays and a sandwiched dielectric layer. Calculations show that the…

Steadily moving transition (switching) fronts, bringing local transformation, symmetry breaking or collapse, are among the most important dynamic coherent structures. The nonlinear mechanical waves of this type play a major role in many…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-09-14 N. Gorbushin , A. Vainchtein , L. Truskinovsky

Magnonics is gaining momentum as an emerging technology for information processing. The wave character and Joule heating-free propagation of spin-waves hold promises for highly efficient analog computing platforms, based on integrated…

It is now well-established that photonic systems can exhibit topological energy bands; similar to their electronic counterparts, this leads to the formation of chiral edge modes which can be used to transmit light in a manner that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Vittorio Peano , Martin Houde , Florian Marquardt , Aashish A. Clerk

Narrow bandgap semiconductor nanostructures have been explored for realization of topological superconducting quantum devices in which Majorana states can be created and employed for constructing topological qubits. However, a prerequisite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Zhi-Hai Liu , Wenkai Lou , Kai Chang , H. Q. Xu

The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its capability to extend communication networks from terrestrial environments to near-ground and space contexts. The application of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Han Yu , Jiajun He , Xinping Yi , Feng Yin , Hing Cheung So , Giuseppe Caire