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We analytically and numerically investigate magneto-plasmons in metal films surrounded by a ferromagnetic dielectric. In such waveguide using a metal film with a thickness exceeding the Skin depth, an external magnetic field in the…

The combination of magnetism and topological properties in one material platform is attracting significant attention due to the potential of realizing low power consumption and error-robust electronic devices. Common practice is to start…

Feasibility of Topological Metawaveguides supporting helical propagation in the microwave range has been recently proven. The advantages of unidirectional propagation supported by such waveguides however can only be exploited in real…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Gian Guido Gentili , Giuseppe Pelosi , Francesco S. Piccioli , Stefano Selleri

Dislocations are ubiquitous in three-dimensional solid-state materials. The interplay of such real space topology with the emergent band topology defined in reciprocal space gives rise to gapless helical modes bound to the line defects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Liping Ye , Chunyin Qiu , Meng Xiao , Tianzi Li , Juan Du , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Robust metallic surface states (MSS) of topological insulator (TI) against imperfections and perturbations are important in broad applications such as chemical catalysis and quantum computing. Unfortunately, they are suffered from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-27 Dan Wang , Hongxing Song , Leilei Zhang , Hao Wang , Yi Sun , Fengchao Wu , Ying Chen , Xiangrong Chen , Hua Y. Geng

We investigate the astonishing physical aspects of Exceptional Points (EPs) in a 1D planar few-mode optical waveguide. The waveguide hosts four quasi-guided modes. Here interactions between the selected pair of modes are modulated by a…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) lasing requires population inversion, it is inefficient and possesses poor spectral properties. We develop an inversion-less concept for a quantum plasmonic waveguide that exploits unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-12 Saeid Asgarnezhad-Zorgabad

We demonstrate an air-core single-mode hollow waveguide that uses Bragg reflector structures in place of the vertical metal walls of the standard rectangular waveguide or via holes of the so-called substrate integrated waveguide. The…

Guided wave modes in a symmetric slab waveguide formed by an isotropic dielectric layer with cubic nonlinear response placed in the hyperbolic surrounding medium are investigated theoretically. Optical axis of the hyperbolic medium is…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-01 Ekaterina I. Lyashko , Andrei I. Maimistov

We calculate a low-frequency surface impedance of a dirty, s-wave superconductor with an imperfect surface incorporating either a thin layer with a reduced pairing constant or a thin, proximity-coupled normal layer. Such structures model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-06 Alex Gurevich , Takayuki Kubo

This paper presents the experimental verification of a planar guided-wave terahertz (THz) spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) bandpass filter (BPF) using a coplanar stripline (CPS) with internal grooves and periodic gaps. The proposed…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-17 Mohsen Haghighat , Ali Dehghanian , Levi Smith

Hard surfaces or magnetic surfaces can be used to propagate quasi-TEM modes inside closed waveguides. The interesting feature of these modes is an almost uniform field distribution inside the waveguide. But the mechanisms governing how…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raphaël Pierre , Gérard Tayeb , Boris Gralak , Stefan Enoch

In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A1g superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here we demonstrate that an exception can take place in a type of nonsymmorphic lattice structures. We specify…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-17 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

Topological magnon bands enable uni-directional edge transport without backscattering, enhancing the robustness of magnonic circuits and providing a novel platform for exploring quantum transport phenomena. Magnetic skyrmion lattices, in…

Light-matter interactions in conventional nanophotonic structures typically lack directionality. Furthermore, surface waves supported by conventional material substrates do not usually have a preferential direction of propagation, and their…

When an optical pulse is focused into a multimode waveguide or fiber, the energy is divided among the available guided modes. Consequently, the initially localized intensity spreads transversely, the spatial profile undergoes rapid…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-07 Abbas Shiri , Kenneth L. Schepler , Ayman F. Abouraddy

We have investigated the one-way surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) at the interface of a continuous magneto-plasma material and metal. We demonstrated that TM modes inside a continuous material can be assigned non-trivial Chern numbers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Andrei Nemilentsau , George W. Hanson

The quasi-bound electromagnetic modes for the arrays of nanoholes perforated in thin gold film are analyzed both numerically by the rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) method and semi-analytically by the coupled mode method. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-10 Munehiro Nishida , Noriyuki Hatakenaka , Yutaka Kadoya

Efficient chip-scale interconnects are essential for modern microelectronic-photonic systems, supporting high bandwidth and low-latency processing. Traditional wired links face high resistivity and latency, while millimeter-wave wireless…

We study topologically-protected four-wave mixing (FWM) interactions in a plasmonic metasurface consisting of a periodic array of nanoholes in a graphene sheet, which exhibits a wide topological bandgap at terahertz frequencies upon the…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-07 Jian Wei You , Zhihao Lan , Nicolae C. Panoiu