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The concept of optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) underpins the existence of strongly localized waves embedded into the radiation spectrum that can enhance the electromagnetic fields in subwavelength photonic structures. Early…

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are an excellent platform enabling highly efficient light-matter interaction in applications for lasing, nonlinear generation, and sensing. However, the current focus in implementing BICs has primarily…

Optical bound state in the continuum (BIC) is characterized by infinitely high quality factor resulting in drastic enhancement of light-matter interaction phenomena. We study the optical response of a one-dimensional photonic crystal slab…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. D. Krasikov , A. A. Bogdanov , I. V. Iorsh

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), circularly polarized states (C points) and degenerate states are all of three types of singular points of polarization in the momentum space. For photonic crystal slabs (PhCSs) with linearly polarized…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-01 Weimin Ye , Yang Gao , Jianlong Liu

Topological manipulation of light provides a versatile toolbox for photonic technologies. Here, we show that a topological atom array can induce photon localization in a waveguide via symmetry-protected light-matter interaction. Long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Yue-Zhi Zhang , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Wei Nie

A general symmetry-controlled mechanism is proposed for realizing dual flat-bands of bound state in the continuum (BIC) and its radiative counterpart in photonic crystal slabs. By breaking the vertical mirror symmetry of slab,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jiayao Liu , Zimeng Zeng , Zhuoyang Li , Zelong He , Zhaona Wang

The significance of bound states in the continuum (BICs) lies in their potential for theoretically infinite quality factors. However, their actual quality factors are limited by imperfections in fabrication, which lead to coupling with the…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-26 Guodong Zhu , Sen Yang , Justus C. Ndukaife

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

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 introduce the novel concept of a bound state in the continuum (BIC) for a binary lattice satisfying the ${\mathcal{P T}}$ symmetry condition. We show how to build such state and the local potential necessary to sustain it. We find that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-20 Mario I. Molina , Yuri S. Kivshar

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

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

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 a periodic structure sandwiched between two homogeneous media have interesting properties and useful applications in photonics. The topological nature of BICs was previously revealed based on a…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 Amgad Abdrabou , Ya Yan Lu

Optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a way to engineer very narrow resonances in photonic crystals. The extended interaction time in such systems is particularly promising for enhancement of nonlinear optical processes and…

We investigate bound states in the continuum (BICs) in a planar dielectric waveguide structure consisting of a gold grating on a dielectric layer with a back layer of metal. In this structure, Friedrich-Wintgen (FW) BICs caused by the…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-21 Ryo Kikkawa , Munehiro Nishida , Yutaka Kadoya

We demonstrate a fully integrable and reconfigurable platform for controlling quantum emission by harnessing chiral exceptional bound states in the continuum (BICs) as a higher-order non-Hermitian singularity. Our architecture employs…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Jin Li , Kexun Wu , Qi Hao , Yan Chen , Jiawei Wang

Magnetic topological insulators (MnBi$_2$Te$_4$)(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ were anticipated to exhibit magnetic energy gaps while recent spectroscopic studies did not observe them. Thus, magnetism on the surface is under debate. In this work, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-31 Hengxin Tan , Daniel Kaplan , Binghai Yan

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted much attention in recent years due to the infinite quality factor (Q-factor) resonance and extremely localized field. In this study, BICs have been demonstrated by dielectric metasurfaces…

We demonstrate by breaking the $C_{6}$ symmetry for higher-order at-$\Gamma$ bound states in the continuum (BICs) with topological charge $-2$ in photonic crystals, (i) deterministic generation of off-$\Gamma$ BICs from the at-$\Gamma$ BIC,…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-31 Taiki Yoda , Masaya Notomi