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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 study the effect of structural disorder on the transition from the bound states in the continuum (BICs) to quasi-BICs by the example of the periodic photonic structure composed of two layers of parallel dielectric rods. We uncover the…

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) are peculiar topological states that, when realized in a planar photonic crystal lattice, are symmetry-protected from radiating in the far field despite lying within the light cone, i.e., in the…

We propose a sigma_z-symmetry-preserving approach to achieve Janus bound states in the continuum (Janus BICs) exhibiting asymmetric topological charges in the upward and downward radiation channels. While prior approaches typically involve…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-07 Hongzhi Zuo , Shengxuan Xia , Haiyu Meng

The realization of lossless metasurfaces with true chirality crucially requires the fabrication of three-dimensional structures, constraining their feasibility for experiments and hampering practical implementations. Even though the…

In connection to the chiral-induced spin-selectivity (CISS) effect, we theoretically analyze the electronic and spin states of edges of a finite $p$-orbital helical atomic chain with the intra-atomic spin-orbit interaction (SOI). This model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Takemitsu Kato , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

We introduce a new type of a bound state in the continuum (BIC) which appears in the photonic structure consisting of two coupled waveguides where one of them supports a discrete eigenmode spectrum embedded in the continuum of the other…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-13 Jiri Petracek , Vladimir Kuzmiak , Jiri Ctyroky , Ivan Richter

Using formalism of effective Hamiltonian we consider bound states in continuum (BIC). They are those eigen states of non-hermitian effective Hamiltonian which have real eigen values. It is shown that BICs are orthogonal to open channels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Evgeny N. Bulgakov , Konstantin N. Pichugin , Almas F. Sadreev , Ingrid Rotter

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

We show that lattices with higher-order topology can support corner-localized bound states in the continuum (BICs). We propose a method for the direct identification of BICs in condensed matter settings and use it to demonstrate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Alexander Cerjan

The angular momentum quantization of chiral gapless modes confined to a circularly shaped interface between two different topological phases is investigated. By examining several different setups, we show analytically that the angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Marko M. Grujić , Milan Ž. Tadić , François M. Peeters

Locking of the spin of a quasi-particle to its momentum in split bands of on the surfaces of metals and topological insulators (TIs) is understood in terms of Rashba effect where a free electron in the surface states feels an effective…

We demonstrate the existence of tunable bound-states in continuum (BIC) in a 1-dimensional quantum wire with two impurities induced by an intense monochromatic radiation field. We found that there is a new type of BIC due to the Fano…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Yingyue Boretz , Gonzalo Ordonez , Satoshi Tanaka , Tomio Petrosky

We develop a theory of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in multipolar lattices -- periodic arrays of resonant multipoles. We predict that BICs are completely robust to changes in lattice parameters remaining pinned to specific…

The generation of arbitrary polarization states of light is essential for optical communication and photonic information processing. Photonic crystal and metasurface platforms supporting bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-13 Siyuan Gao , Guangtai Lu , Satoshi Iwamoto , Yasutomo Ota

We demonstrate by breaking the $C_{6}$ symmetry for higher-order at-$\Gamma$ bound states in the continuum (BICs) with topological charge $-2$ in photonic crystals, (i) deterministic generation of off-$\Gamma$ BICs from the at-$\Gamma$ BIC,…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-31 Taiki Yoda , Masaya Notomi

We develop a semi-analytical model to describe bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic crystal slabs. We model leaky modes supported by photonic crystal slabs as a transverse Fabry-Perot resonance composed of a few propagative…

Superchiral field is highly important for ultrasensitive detection of chiral objects and has been intensively explored. Despite the progress, the construction of electromagnetic field in achiral nanostructures with giant chirality (C) is…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-19 Hamdi Barkaoui , Kang Du , Yimu Chen , Shumin Xiao , Qinghai Song

In this work, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate the formation of a super bound state in a continuum (BIC) on a photonic crystal flat band. This unique state simultaneously exhibits an enhanced quality factor and…

We investigate the robustness of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in a bilayer dielectric rod array against geometric and material perturbations. Our analysis focuses on both symmetry-protected and Fabry-P\'erot BICs, examining their…

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