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Robust laser sources are a fundamental building block for contemporary information technologies. Originating from condensed-matter physics, the concept of topology has recently entered the realm of optics, offering fundamentally new design…

Topological insulators possess protected boundary states which are robust against disorders and have immense implications in both fermionic and bosonic systems. Harnessing these topological effects in non-equilibrium scenarios is highly…

The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical phenomena and properties that are robust against disorders. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Weiwei Zhu , Weiyin Deng , Yang Liu , Jiuyang Lu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xueqin Huang , Jian-Hua Jiang , Zhengyou Liu

Topological photonics has emerged recently as a novel approach for realizing robust optical circuitry, and the study of nonlinear effects in topological photonics is expected to open the door for tunability of photonic structures with…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-12 Daria Smirnova , Lev Smirnov , Daniel Leykam , Yuri Kivshar

We propose nonreciprocal phonon lasing in a coupled cavity system composed of an optomechanical and a spinning resonator. We show that the optical Sagnac effect leads to significant modifications in both the mechanical gain and the power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Y. Jiang , S. Maayani , T. Carmon , Franco Nori , H. Jing

Inspired by concepts developed for fermionic systems in the framework of condensed matter physics, topology and topological states are recently being explored also in bosonic systems. The possibility of engineering systems with…

Topologically protected one-way transportation of sound, mimicking the topological properties of the condensed matter, has received greatly attentions. Thus far, the topological phases and the topological edge states of sound are yielded in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-18 Bai-Zhan Xia , Sheng-Jie Zheng , Ning Chen , Ting-Ting Liu , Jun-Rui Jiao , Hong-Qing Dai , De-Jie Yu , Jian Liu

Topological photonics sheds light on some of the surprising phenomena seen in condensed matter physics that arise with the appearance of topological invariants. Optical waveguides provide a well-controlled platform to investigate effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Adrian J Menssen , Jun Guan , David Felce , Martin J Booth , Ian A Walmsley

Topological photonics started out as a pursuit to engineer systems that mimic fermionic single-particle Hamiltonians with symmetry-protected modes, whose number can only change in spectral phase transitions such as band inversions. The…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-29 Simon Malzard , Henning Schomerus

Phonon lasers, exploiting coherent amplifications of phonons, have been a cornerstone for exploring nonlinear phononics, imaging nanomaterial structures, and operating phononic devices. Very recently, by levitating a nanosphere in an…

Phonon lasers, as the counterpart of photonic lasers, have been intensively studied in a large variety of systems, however, (all) most of them are based on the directly coherent pumping. Intuitively, dissipation is an unfavorable factor for…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Qiankun Zhang , Cheng Yang , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

The great potential of Dirac electrons for plasmonics and photonics has been readily recognized after their discovery in graphene, followed by applications to smart optical devices. Dirac carriers are also found in topological insulators…

A phase-controlled ultralow-threshold phonon laser is proposed by using tunable optical amplifiers in coupled-cavity-optomechanical system. Giant enhancement of coherent photon-phonon interactions is achieved by engineering the strengths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Yan-Lei Zhang , Chang-Ling Zou , Chuan-Sheng Yang , Hui Jing , Chun-Hua Dong , Guang-Can Guo , Xu-Bo Zou

We classify symmetry-protected and symmetry-breaking dynamical solutions for nonlinear saturable bosonic systems that display a non-hermitian charge-conjugation symmetry, as realized in a series of recent groundbreaking experiments with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Simon Malzard , Emiliano Cancellieri , Henning Schomerus

We investigate the plasmonic response of single- and bilayer semi-Dirac materials under the influence of a tunable parameter $\delta$ that governs topological transitions via Dirac cone generation/merging and incorporating band inversion…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 Debasmita Giri , John Schliemann , Rafael Molina , Alexander Lopez

We propose and analyze a scheme to observe topological phenomena with ions in microtraps. We consider a set of trapped ions forming a regular structure in two spatial dimensions and interacting with lasers. We find phonon bands with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 T. Shi , J. I. Cirac

Topological polaritons characterized by light-matter interactions have become a pivotal platform in exploring new topological phases of matter. Recent theoretical advances unveiled a novel mechanism for tuning topological phases of…

Dirac semimetals, the materials featured with discrete linearly crossing points (called Dirac points) between four bands, are critical states of topologically distinct phases. Such gapless topological states have been accomplished by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-20 Xiangxi Cai , Liping Ye , Chunyin Qiu , Meng Xiao , Rui Yu , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Topological phononics extends the foundational concepts of topological condensed matter physics to the realm of lattice vibrations and classical mechanical waves, unlocking robust, defect-immune states and phenomena beyond the reach of…

Effective transition between the population-inverted optical eigenmodes of two coupled microcavities carrying mechanical oscillation realizes a phonon analogue of optical two-level laser. By providing an approach that linearizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Bing He , Liu Yang , Min Xiao
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