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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

It is known that the superposition of two bound states in the continuum (BIC) leads to the phenomenon of an oscillating bound state, where excitations mediated by the continuum modes oscillate persistently. We perform exact calculations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Kian Hwee Lim , Wai-Keong Mok , Leong-Chuan Kwek

Continuum-buried defect states in semiconductors are generally expected to be optically inactive due to their strong coupling to continuum bands. Here, we show that such defects can instead host radiative electronic bound states in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Seong Yun Hong , Liang Z. Tan , Ki Hoon Lee , Youngho Kang , Yeonghun Lee

Dielectric metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) exhibit very high quality factor resonances and electric field confinement. However, accessing the high-Q end of the quasi-BIC regime usually requires…

One of the main applications of the bound state in the continuum (BIC) is the low-threshold lasing. Ideally, the infinite quality factor of the BIC results in the zero-threshold and zero-linewidth lasing. However, various effects disturb…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-22 Tetsuyuki Ochiai

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 widely studied for their ability to confine light, produce sharp resonances for sensing applications and serve as avenues for lasing action with topological characteristics. Recent experiments have…

Flat-band bound states in the continuum (BICs) are topological states with suppressed group velocity and robustness against radiation loss, offering a powerful platform for the exploration of non-Hermitian, nonlinear, topological phenomena…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-26 Fuhuan Shen , Jiahao Ren , Zhiyi Yuan , Kai Wu , Sai Yan , Kunal Parasad , Hai Son Nguyen , Rui Su

Electromagnetic embedded eigenstates, also known as bound states in the continuum (BICs), hold a great potential for applications in sensing, lasing, enhanced nonlinearities and energy harvesting. However, their demonstrations so far have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Rasmus E. Jacobsen , Alex Krasnok , Samel Arslanagic , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Andrea Alu

Starting from a potential with a continuum of energy eigenstates, we show how the methods of supersymmetric quantum mechanics can be used to generate families of potentials with bound states in the continuum [BICs]. We also find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Pappademos , U. Sukhatme , A. Pagnamenta

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

Metasurfaces with bound states in the continuum (BICs) have proven to be a powerful platform for drastically enhancing light-matter interactions, improving biosensing, and precisely manipulating near- and far-fields. However, engineering…

Understanding how bound states in the continuum (BICs) emerge in periodic metasurfaces is essential for the controlled design of high-Q resonances and their systematic manipulation. Here, we investigate the singular value decomposition…

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

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

Light can be influenced by permittivity changes in optical resonators, enabling optical sensors, modulators and optical switches. It is straightforward that a high relative change of intensity per change of permittivity, labelled as figure…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-13 Maik Meudt , Chakan Bogiadzi , Kevin Wrobel , Patrick Görrn

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have emerged as a revolutionary paradigm in terahertz (THz) photonics, enabling metasurfaces with theoretically infinite quality factors (Q-factors) and unprecedented light-matter control. This review…

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a standout nanophotonic platform for strong light-matter coupling with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), but have so far mostly been employed as all-dielectric metasurfaces with…

In this work, we investigate the bound states in the continuum (BIC) of a one-dimensional spin-1 flat band system. It is found that, when the potential is sufficiently strong, there exists an effective attractive potential well surrounded…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-12 Yi-Cai Zhang

Optical metasurfaces have revolutionized analog computing and image processing at sub-wavelength scales with faster speed and lower power consumption. They typically involve spatial differentiation with engineered angular dispersion.…