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We study bound states embedded into the continuum of edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators. These states emerge in the presence of a short-range potential of a structural defect coupled to the boundary. In this case the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) garnered significant for their potential to create new types of nanophotonic devices. Most prior demonstrations were based on arrays of dielectric resonators, which cannot be miniaturized beyond the…

We show that a slab of wire medium composed of thin parallel metallic wires can naturally support bound states in the continuum (BICs) formed in an unusual way. The revealed BICs appear due to the strong spatial dispersion making possible…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), which are confined optical modes exhibiting infinite quality factors and carrying topological polarization configurations in momentum space, have recently sparked significant interest across both…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Xingqi Zhao , Jiajun Wang , Wenzhe Liu , Zhiyuan Che , Xinhao Wang , C. T. Chan , Lei Shi , Jian Zi

On a lossless periodic dielectric structure sandwiched between two homogeneous media, bound states in the continuum (BICs) with real frequencies and real Bloch wavevectors may exist, and they decay exponentially in the surrounding…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-15 Zhen Hu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

The heavy fluxonium at zero external flux has a long-lived state when coupled capacitively to any other system. We analyze it by projecting all the fluxonium relevant operators into the qutrit subspace, as this long-lived configuration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 María Hita-Pérez , Pedro Orellana , Juan José García-Ripoll , Manuel Pino

We unveil the existence of two-particle bound state in the continuum (BIC) in a one-dimensional interacting nonreciprocal lattice with a generalized boundary condition. By applying the Bethe-ansatz method, we can exactly solve the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-08 Yanxia Liu , Shu Chen

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a viable way of achieving high-Q resonances in both photonics and acoustics. In this work, we proposed a general method of constructing Friedrich-Wintgen (FW) BICs and accidental BICs in a…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic crystal slabs represent the resonances with an infinite quality(Q)-factor, occurring above the light line for an infinitely periodic structure. We show that a set of BICs can turn into…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Alireza Taghizadeh , Il-Sug Chung

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

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are spatially localized eigenmodes that remain perfectly confined even though their energies reside within a continuum of radiating modes. BICs were predicted in 1929, but their experimental realization…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), an emerging type of long-lived resonances different from the cavity-based ones, have been explored in several classical systems, including photonic crystals and surface acoustic waves. Here, we reveal…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-02 Mengdi Zhao , Kejie Fang

Rydberg excitons are the solid-state analog of Rydberg atoms and can, e.g., for cuprous oxide, easily reach a large size in the region of $\mu$m for principal quantum numbers up to $n=25$. The fabrication of quantum well-like structures in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Niklas Scheuler , Patric Rommel , Jörg Main , Pavel A. Belov

I review the four mechanisms of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in application to microwave and acoustic cavities open to directional waveguides. The most simple are the symmetry protected BICs which are localized inside the cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Almas F. Sadreev

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a fascinating class of eigenstates that trap energy within the continuum, enabling breakthroughs in ultra-low-threshold lasing, high-Q sensing, and advanced wave-matter interactions. However, their…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sheng-Nan Liang , Zhen-Hui Qin , Shu-Mao Wu , Hua-Yang Chen , Si-Yuan Yu , Yan-Feng Chen

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

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an unusual localized state that is embedded in a continuum of extended states. Here, we present the general condition for BICs to arise from wave equation separability and show that the directionality…

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

Ordered lattices of emitters with subwavelength periodicities support unconventional forms of light-matter interactions arising from collective effects. Here, we propose the realization and control of subradiant optical states within the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 Paloma A. Huidobro , Maria Blanco de Paz