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The advance of topological photonics has heralded a revolution for manipulating light as well as for the development of novel photonic devices such as topological insulator lasers. Here, we demonstrate topological lasing of circular…

We demonstrate experimentally a new type of Bound state In the Continuum (BIC) which is induced by the vertical symmetry breaking of a photonic crystal slab. Such BIC emerges from the hybridization between Bloch resonances of opposite…

We investigate the transport problem that a spinful matter wave is incident on a strong localized spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in optical lattices, where the localization is admitted by atom interaction only existing at one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Yan-Jun Zhao , Dongyang Yu , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

Band structure analysis is central to understanding wave propagation in periodic media; however, it becomes challenging in open systems owing to energy leakage. Photonic crystal (PhC) slabs exemplify such systems, featuring periodicity in…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jie Liu , Ziyun Peng , Qianju Song , Ang Chen , Liping Yang , Chunxiong Zheng , Dezhuan Han

We report the experimental observation of an elastic bound mode in the continuum (BIC) in a compact region of an architected beam. We consider a long slender beam with rigid masses attached at periodic intervals, with a compact segment…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Adib Rahman , Raj Kumar Pal

We realize the dynamical 1D spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) of a Bose-Einstein condensate confined within an optical cavity. The SOC emerges through spin-correlated momentum impulses delivered to the atoms via Raman transitions. These are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-23 Ronen M. Kroeze , Yudan Guo , Benjamin L. Lev

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted much attention in recent years due to the infinite quality factor (Q-factor) resonance and extremely localized field. In this study, BICs have been demonstrated by dielectric metasurfaces…

Spin and orbital are two basic degrees of freedom that play significant roles in exploring exotic quantum phases in optical lattices with synthetic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and high orbital bands, respectively. Here, we combine these two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhi-Hao Huang , Kou-Han Ma , Bao-Zong Wang , W. Vincent Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

We demonstrate coupling between the atomic spin and orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) of the atom's center-of-mass motion in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The coupling is induced by Raman-dressing lasers with a Laguerre-Gaussian beam, and…

Interference of spin-up and spin-down eigenstates depicts spin rotation of electrons, which is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics and accepts technological challenges for the electrical spin manipulation. Here, we visualize this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , M. Nakayama , A. Harasawa , Y. Ishida , S. Watanabe , C. -T. Chen , T. Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

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

Silicon carbide is a very promising platform for quantum applications because of extraordinary spin and optical properties of point defects in this technologically-friendly material. These properties are strongly influenced by crystal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Z. Shang , A. Hashemi , Y. Berencén , H. -P. Komsa , P. Erhart , A. V. Krasheninnikov , G. V. Astakhov

In periodic structures such as photonic crystal (PhC) slabs, a bound state in the continuum (BIC) is always surrounded by resonant states with their $Q$-factor following $Q\sim 1/|{\bm \beta}-{\bm \beta}_*|^{2p}$, where ${\bm \beta}$ and…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-02 Nan Zhang , Ya Yan Lu

Boundary time crystals (BTCs) break time-translation symmetry and exhibit long-lived, robust oscillations insensitive to initial conditions. We show that collective spin BTCs can admit emergent topological winding numbers in operator space.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Dominik Nemeth , Ahsan Nazir , Alessandro Principi , Robert-Jan Slager

Topological photonics provides a new degree of freedom to robustly control electromagnetic fields. To date, most of established topological states in photonics have been employed in Euclidean space. Motivated by unique properties of…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) represent localized modes with energies embedded in the continuous spectrum of radiating waves. BICs were discovered initially as a mathematical curiosity in quantum mechanics, and more recently were…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) and exceptional points (EPs) are unique singularities of non-Hermitian systems. BICs demonstrate enhancement of the electromagnetic field at the nanoscale, while EPs exhibit high sensitivity to small…

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 consider an attractive quasi-one dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (SOC BEC) confined in a periodic potential produced by the combination of linear and nonlinear optical lattices, and study the effects of squeezing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-09 Golam Ali Sekh , Benoy Talukdar

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) holds significant promise in manipulating electromagnetic fields and reducing losses in optical structures, leading to advancements in both fundamental research and practical applications. Despite their…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Shuai Liu , Bo-Han Wu , Jeffrey Huang , Zheshen Zhang