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Deterministically aperiodic sequences are an intermediary between periodic sequences and completely random sequences. Materials which are translationally periodic have Bloch-like extended states, while random media exhibit Anderson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 C. V. Ambarish , N. Lo Gullo , Th. Busch , L. Dell'Anna , C. M. Chandrashekar

A detailed analysis is presented of the modes of a class of spatiotemporal photonic crystal. The structure analyzed is a perfect dielectric with periodic variation of {\epsilon} in a single spatial direction, as well as periodic variation…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-05 Juan C. Gonzalez , Juan C. Minano , Pablo Benitez

Photonic Time crystals (PTC) arise in time-modulated media when the frequency of modulation of permittivity is on the order of twice the frequency of light and are manifested by the generation and amplification of so-called time reversed…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-01 Jacob B Khurgin

Research on time crystals concerns the spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry in time, as well as the realization of phenomena and phases known from solid-state physics in the time domain. Periodically driven systems of massive…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-24 Majid Yazdani-Kachoei , Krzysztof Sacha , Boris A. Malomed

Time metamaterials exhibit a great potential for wave manipulation, drawing increasing attention in recent years. Here, we explore the exotic wave dynamics in an anisotropic photonic time crystal (APTC), formed by an anisotropic medium…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-10 Huanan Li , Shixiong Yin , Huan He , Jingjun Xu , Andrea Alù , Boris Shapiro

Aperiodic crystals constitute a fascinating class of materials that includes incommensurate (IC) modulated structures and quasicrystals (QCs). Although these two categories share a common foundation in the concept of superspace, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Toranosuke Matsubara , Akihisa Koga , Atsushi Takano , Yushu Matsushita , Tomonari Dotera

Discrete time quasicrystals (DTQC) constitute a class of non-equilibrium matter characterized by temporal order without strict periodicity, in contrast to conventional time crystals. Investigating these phenomena is essential for expanding…

The fairly recent discovery of "quasicrystals", whose X-ray diffraction patterns reveal certain peculiar features which do not conform with spatial periodicity, has motivated studies of the wave-dynamical implications of "aperiodic order".…

Photonic Time Crystals (PTCs) - dielectric media with their refractive index modulated periodically in time, offer new opportunities in photonics arising from time reflections and momentum bandgaps. Here, we study the emission of light from…

Periodic driving of particles can create crystalline structures in their dynamics. Such systems can be used to study solid-state physics phenomena in the time domain. In addition, it is possible to realize photonic time crystals and to…

Discrete time crystals (DTCs) are new phases of matter characterized by the presence of an observable evolving with $nT$ periodicity under a $T$-periodic Hamiltonian, where $n>1$ is an integer insensitive to small parameter variations. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Pekik Nurwantoro , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Anisotropic photonic time crystals, enabled by periodic temporal modulation of a uniform anisotropic medium, exhibit asymmetric momentum-bandgap structures and offer unique control over light-matter interactions. Here, we introduce and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zihao He , Sihao Zhang , Huanan Li , Xiang Ni

We theoretically investigate the possibility of realizing a nonlinear all-optical diode by using the unique features of quasiperiodic 1D photonic crystals. The interplay between the intrinsic spatial asymmetry in odd-order Thue-Morse…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabio Biancalana

The main goal of the present paper is to convince that it is feasible to construct a `periodic orbit theory' of localization by extending the idea of classical action correlations. This possibility had been questioned by many researchers in…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Doron Cohen

Topological Quantum Chemistry (TQC) has recently emerged as a instrumental tool to characterize the topological nature of both fermionic and bosonic band structures. TQC is based on the study of band representations and the localization of…

Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter with broken time-translation symmetry. Quantum time crystals with discretely broken time-translation symmetry have been demonstrated in trapped ions, atoms and spins while continuously…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-03 Tongjun Liu , Jun-Yu Ou , Kevin F. MacDonald , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Mathematicians have been interested in non-periodic tilings of space for decades; however, it was the unexpected discovery of non-periodically ordered structures in intermetallic alloys which brought this subject into the limelight. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Uwe Grimm , Peter Kramer

We study aperiodic systems based on substitution rules by means of a transfer-matrix approach. In addition to the well-known trace map, we investigate the so-called `antitrace' map, which is the corresponding map for the difference of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaoguang Wang , Uwe Grimm , Michael Schreiber

Studying the topology of spatiotemporal media poses a fundamental challenge: their remarkable properties stem from breaking spatial and temporal symmetries, yet this same breaking obscures their topological characterization. Here, we show…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-27 Alejandro Caballero , Thomas F. Allard , Paloma A. Huidobro

We introduce topological phases in Photonic Time-Crystals. Photonic Time-Crystals are materials in which the refractive index varies periodically and abruptly in time. When the refractive index changes abruptly, the light propagating in the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-14 Eran Lustig , Yonatan Sharabi , Mordechai Segev