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Temporally modulated optical media are important in both abstract and applied applications, such as spacetime transformation optics, relativistic laser-plasma interactions, and dynamic metamaterials. Here we investigate the behaviour of…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are spatially localized states with energy embedded in the continuum spectrum of extended states. The combination of BICs physics and nontrivial band topology theory giving rise to topological BICs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Shunda Yin , Liping Ye , Hailong He , Xueqin Huang , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Zhengyou Liu

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), referring to spatially localized bound states with energies falling within the range of extended modes, have been extensively investigated in single-particle systems, leading to diverse applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Na Sun , Weixuan Zhang , Hao Yuan , Xiangdong Zhang

Bound states in the continuum provide a remarkable example of how a simple problem solved about a century ago in quantum mechanics can drive the research on a whole spectrum of resonant phenomena in wave physics. Due to their huge radiative…

We consider for the full time-dependent Maxwell's equations the inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from dynamic boundary measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-08 C. Daveau , A. Khelifi

The conventional description of time-varying media assumes that electromagnetic fields evolve according to fixed continuity conditions during parameter jumps. Here we reveal that these conditions are not physical constraints but tunable…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yongge Wang , Jingfeng Yao , Ying Wang , Chengxun Yuan , Zhongxiang Zhou

We examine bulk and surface bound states in the continuum (BIC) that is, square-integrable, localized modes embedded in the linear spectral band of a discrete lattice including interactions to first-and second nearest neighbors. We suggest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 N. A. Gallo , M . I. Molina

We develop a theoretical framework for time-modulated acoustic metasurfaces comprising a line array of modulated cavities, and show that bound acoustic surface waves can undergo temporal diffraction from bound states localised at an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 E. Paul , G. J. Chaplain , J. Li , T. A. Starkey , S. A. R. Horsley

The photonic bound state in the continuum (BIC) is discovered in a hybrid photonic circuit with low refractive index waveguide on a high refractive index thin membrane, where the optical dissipation is forbidden because of the destructive…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are radiationless localized states embedded in the part of the parameter space that otherwise corresponds to radiative modes. Many decades after their original prediction and early observations in…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-25 Jordi Gomis-Bresco , David Artigas , Lluis Torner

We study the bound states in the continuum (BIC) in a system of two identical two-level giant atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. By deriving general dark-state conditions, we clarify how coupling configurations and atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 F. J. Lü , W. Z. Jia

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have been extensively exploited to enhance light--matter interactions in metamaterials, yet their emergence and utility in multi-atom waveguide platforms remain far less explored. Here we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiang Guo , Xiaojun Zhang , Mingzhu Weng , Qian Bin , Hao-di Liu , Hai-Jun Xing , Xin-You Lü , Zhihai Wang

We present a distinct mechanism for the formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs). In chiral quantum systems there appear zero-energy states in which the wave function has finite amplitude only in one of the subsystems defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Jordi Mur-Petit , Rafael A. Molina

We investigate the band structure and the dynamics of topological singularities of magneto-optical Moir\'e bound states in the continuum (BICs), which originate from two overlapped conventional magneto-optical BIC gratings with mismatched…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 Shuo Wang

A photonic-crystal slab can support bound states in the continuum (BICs) which have infinite lifetimes but embedded into the continuous spectrum of optical modes in free space. The formation of BICs requires a total internal reflection…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-27 Peng Hu , Chongwu Xie , Qianju Song , Ang Chen , Hong Xiang , Dezhuan Han , Jian Zi

Originally emerged within the context of string and quantum field theory, and later fruitfully extrapolated to photonics, the algebraic transformations of quantum-mechanical supersymmetry were conceived in the space realm. Here, we…

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

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), i.e. highly-localized modes with energy embedded in the continuum of radiating waves, have provided in the past decade a new paradigm in optics and photonics, especially at the nanoscale, with a range…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-26 Stefano Longhi

We reveal that finite-size solid acoustic resonators can support genuine bound states in the continuum (BICs) completely localized inside the resonator. The developed theory provides the multipole classification of such BICs in the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ilya Deriy , Ivan Toftul , Mihail Petrov , Andrey Bogdanov

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) are shown to exist in a single-level Fano-Anderson model with a colored interaction between the discrete state and a tight-binding continuum, which may describe mesoscopic electron or photon transport in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Longhi