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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

We demonstrate the possibility of engineering the topological band structure of a plasmonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain through the interaction with its electromagnetic environment. We find that the long-range interaction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Florian Herz , Alireza Naeimi , Svend-Age Biehs

We present a scheme to realize a topological superconducting system supporting Majorana zero modes, within a number-conserving framework suitable for optical-lattice experiments. Our approach builds on the engineering of pair-hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Anais Defossez , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Nathan Goldman

Mechanical topological insulators are well understood for linear and weakly nonlinear systems, however traditional analysis methods break down for strongly nonlinear systems since linear methods can not be applied in that case. We study one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Joshua R. Tempelman , Kathryn H. Matlack , Alexander F. Vakakis

High-efficiency energy harvesting of ultrasonic elastic waves are crucial for powering electric gadgets in many emerging technologies such as wearable devices, wireless sensing, and biomedical implants. Although topological phononic…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 Jiamin Guo , Zhongming Gu , Lei Fan , Jie Liu , Yafeng Chen , Zhongqing Su , Jie Zhu

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu

The goal of this paper is to advance the development of wave-guiding subwavelength crystals by developing designs whose properties are stable with respect to imperfections in their construction. In particular, we make use of a locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Habib Ammari , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Sanghyeon Yu

We introduce a class of topological lasers based on the photonic Floquet topological insulator concept. The proposed system is realized as a truncated array of the lasing helical waveguides, where the pseudo-magnetic field arises due to…

Topology-linked binary degrees of freedom of guided waves have been used to expand the channel capacity of and to ensure robust transmission through photonic waveguides. However, selectively exciting optical modes associated with the…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-15 Yandong Li , Yang Yu , Kueifu Lai , Yuchen Han , Fei Gao , Baile Zhang , Gennady Shvets

We experimentally realized wide-mode-area slow-light modes in valley photonic crystals (VPhCs) heterostructure waveguides. The waveguides are fabricated on a silicon slab by inserting gapless photonic graphene layers with varying widths and…

We study both theoretically and numerically the topological edge states in synthetic photonic lattice with finitely periodic gauge potentials. The effective gauge fields are implemented by tailoring the phase alternatively and periodically,…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-13 Zengrun Wen , Baole Lu , Kaiwen Ji , Kaile Wang , Haowei Chen , Xinyuan Qi , Jintao Bai

We propose a method that can consecutively modulate the topological orders or the number of helical edge states in ultrathin film semiconductors without a magnetic field. By applying a staggered periodic potential, the system undergoes a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Rui-Lin Chu , Shun-Qing Shen

In comparison with conventional lasers, topological lasers are more robust and can be immune to disorder or de-fects if lasing occurs in topologically protected states. Previously reported topological lasers were almost exclu-sively based…

Dye-doped hybrid silicate/titanium nanofilms on the glass substrate in the structure of asymmetrical waveguides were studied as the laser system. The spatial and spectral features of laser oscillation of genuine and hollow waveguides were…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-09 E. A. Tikhonov , V. P. Yashchuk , G. M. Telbiz

Tuneable retarder arrays, such as spatially patterned liquid crystal devices, have given rise to impressive photonic functionality, fuelling diverse applications ranging from microscopy and holography to encryption and communications.…

Topological photonics promotes a novel approach to resilient light manipulation by exploiting spatio-temporal symmetries of the system and dual symmetry of electromagnetic field. Various prospective device applications pose the need to…

A model for two-dimensional electronic, photonic, and mechanical metamaterial systems is presented, which has flat one-dimensional zero-mode energy bands and stable localized states of a topological origin confined within twin boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Linghua Zhu , Emil Prodan , Keun Hyuk Ahn

We investigate the spectral properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with sublattice-dependent onsite nonlinearity. Two complementary approaches are employed in our studies. First, Bloch state solutions under periodic boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ahmed Alharthy , RW Bomantara

Linear electric circuits composed of inductors and capacitors can serve as analogues of tight-binding models that describe the electronic band structure of materials. This mapping provides a versatile approach for exploring topological…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-27 Araceli Gutiérrez-Llorente

Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses. Recently discovered topological phases of light…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-04 Daria Smirnova , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Yuri Kivshar