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Discovery of novel topological orders of condensed matters is of a significant interest in both fundamental and applied physics due to the associated quantum conductance behaviors and unique symmetry-protected backscattering-immune…

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Different ways exist in optics to realize photons carrying nonzero orbital angular momentum. Such photons with rotating wave fronts are called twisted photons. In microwaves, twisted fields can be produced based on small ferrite particles…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Berezin , E. O. Kamenetskii , R. Shavit

Multi-photon interference is central to photonic quantum information processing and quantum simulation, usually requiring multiple sources of non-classical light followed by a unitary transformation on their modes. Here, we observe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bryn A. Bell , Benjamin J. Eggleton

Two-dimensional photonic crystals made of six air holes on a core-shell dielectric material has been proposed to study the newly emerged photonic quantum spin Hall insulator. Specifically, radii modification of the air holes and core-shell…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. Hajivandi , H. Kurt

We investigate the chiral electronic modes at the interface between two regions of a threefold topological semimetal, which is illuminated by left and right handed elliptically polarized waves. The radiation effects on the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 SK Firoz Islam , A. A. Zyuzin

Integrated quantum optics has drastically reduced the size of table-top optical experiments to the chip-scale, allowing for demonstrations of large-scale quantum information processing and quantum simulation. However, despite these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Aseema Mohanty , Mian Zhang , Avik Dutt , Sven Ramelow , Paulo Nussenzveig , Michal Lipson

Topological boundary states localize at interfaces whenever the interface implies a change of the associated topological invariant encoded in the geometric phase. The generically present dynamic phase, however, which is energy and time…

Fathoming interplay between symmetry and topology of many-electron wave-functions has deepened understanding of quantum many body systems, especially after the discovery of topological insulators. Topology of electron wave-functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-15 SangEun Han , Gil Young Cho , Eun-Gook Moon

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

This work presents a rigorous theory for topological photonic materials in one dimension. The main focus is on the existence and stability of interface modes that are induced by topological properties of the bulk structure. For a general 1D…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Junshan Lin , Hai Zhang

The quantum interference effects induced by the topological phase are studied analytically in biaxial antiferromagnets with an external magnetic field at an arbitrarily angle. This study provides a nontrivial generalization of the Kramers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rong Lu , Hui Pan , Jia-Lin Zhu , Bing-Lin Gu

Here, we reveal our recent progress on a geometrical approach of quantum physics and topological crystals linking with Dirac magnetic monopoles and gauge fields through classical electrodynamics. The Bloch sphere of a quantum spin-1/2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Karyn Le Hur

The recent discovery of higher-order topology has largely enriched the classification of topological materials. Theoretical and experimental studies have unveiled various higher-order topological insulators that exhibit topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Zihao Wang , Dongjue Liu , Hau Tian Teo , Qiang Wang , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

We investigate the effect of a high frequency electromagnetic field with both of circularly and linearly polarization, on the emergence of quantum phases on thin topological insulators. Simultaneously, the influence of the system parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 S. Sajad Dabiri , Hosein Cheraghchi

We demonstrate that multiple topological transitions can occur, with high-sensitivity, by continuous change of the geometry of a simple 2D dielectric-frame photonic crystal consisting of circular air-holes. By changing the radii of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-01 Xuan Zhu , Hai-Xiao Wang , Changqing Xu , Yun Lai , Jian-Hua Jiang , Sajeev John

Nonlinear topological photonics, which explores topics common to the fields of topological phases and nonlinear optics, is expected to open up a new paradigm in topological photonics. Here, we demonstrate second-harmonic generation (SHG)…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 Zhihao Lan , Jian Wei You , Qun Ren , Wei E. I. Sha , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

We study the time evolution of a two-dimensional quantum particle exhibiting an energy spectrum, made of two bands, with two Dirac cones, as e.g. in the band structure of a honeycomb lattice. A force is applied such that the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 Lih-King Lim , Jean-Noël Fuchs , Gilles Montambaux

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

Topological photonics holds the promise for enhanced robustness of light localization and propagation enabled by the global symmetries of the system. While traditional designs of topological structures rely on lattice symmetries, there is…