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Terahertz absorbers are crucial to the cutting-edge techniques in the next-generation wireless communications, imaging, sensing, and radar stealth, as they fundamentally determine the performance of detectors and cloaking capabilities. It…

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

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have been at the forefront of research in optics and photonics over the past decade. It is of great interest to study the effects associated with quasi-BICs in the simplest structures, where quasi-BICs…

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are eigenmodes with an infinite lifetime, which coexist with a continuous spectrum of radiating waves. BICs are not only of great theoretical interest, but have a wide range of practical…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-16 Dmitry A. Bykov , Evgeni A. Bezus , Leonid L. Doskolovich

In a lossless periodic structure, a bound state in the continuum (BIC) is characterized by a real frequency and a real Bloch wavevector for which there exist waves propagating to or from infinity in the surrounding media. For applications,…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-17 Amgad Abdrabou , Ya Yan Lu

Optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a unique mechanism of light confinement that holds great potential for fundamental and applied research in optics and photonics. Of particular interest are merging BICs realized in planar…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Huayu Bai , Andriy Shevchenko , Radoslaw Kolkowski

Chiral bound states in the continuum (BICs) are confined photonic modes with infinite quality factors and chiral response, offering significant potential for chiral optics. Although a novel type of spin-orbital-locking chiral BIC was…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Maohua Gong , Qiutong Zhen , Yujie Tang , Peng Hu , Qing-An Tu , Yan Meng , Peiheng Zhou , Zhen Gao

Waves that are perfectly confined in the continuous spectrum of radiating waves without interaction with them are known as bound states in the continuum (BICs). Despite recent discoveries of BICs in nanophotonics, full routing and control…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-02 Zejie Yu , Xiang Xi , Jingwen Ma , Hon Ki Tsang , Chang-Ling Zou , Xiankai Sun

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an eigenmode with the corresponding eigenvalue embedded in the continuous spectrum. There is currently a significant research interest on BICs in the photonics community, because they can be used to…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Xiuchen Yu , Ya Yan Lu

Waveguiding structures made of anisotropic media support bound states in the continuum (BICs) that arise when the radiation channel of otherwise semi-leaky modes is suppressed. Hitherto, only structures with optical axes aligned in…

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…

We consider bound states in the continuum (BICs) in low-contrast dielectric gratings (DGs). It is demonstrated that the BICs originate from the reduced guided modes on the effective dielectric slab with the permittivity equal to the average…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Evgeny N. Bulgakov , Dmitrii N. Maksimov

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) are trapped eigenmodes with infinite $Q$ factors that are confined in the system. In this work, we propose a simple design for engineering a Friedrich-Wintgen BIC through the interference between a…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xia Zhang , A. Louise Bradley

This paper investigates the generation and stabilization of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in a one-dimensional dissipative Floquet lattice. We find a different mechanism for the generation of stable BICs in the open one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yangchun Zhao , Hongzheng Wu , Xinguang Li , Lei Li , Jinpeng Xiao , Zhao-Yun Zeng , Yajiang Chen , Xiaobing Luo

One-dimensional crystals serve as a versatile platform for engineering nontrivial states, which can be easily explored in transport configurations. In this work, we analyze the properties of a periodic structure composed of an H-shaped unit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Sofía Pinto , P. A. Orellana , Sergio Bravo

We develop a formalism, based on the mode expansion method, to describe the guided resonances and bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic crystal slabs with one-dimensional periodicity. This approach provides analytic insights to…

We address the problem of achieving an optical random laser with a cloud of cold atoms, in which gain and scattering are provided by the same atoms. The lasing threshold can be defined using the on-resonance optical thickness b0 as a single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Luis S. Froufe-Pérez , William Guerin , Rémi Carminati , Robin Kaiser

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are polarization singularities in momentum space whose topological charges (TCs) govern advanced light-matter interactions. While lattice symmetry protects the existence of robust BICs at the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-19 Keren Wang , Lujun Huang , Wei Wang

We present a detailed theoretical analysis of a peculiar generation of multiple bound states in the continuum (BICs) in two-dimensional periodic arrays of dielectric spheres. They emerge in high-symmetry lattices with the $C_{6v}$ and…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-13 Tetsuyuki Ochiai

Quantum mechanics predicts that certain stationary potentials can sustain bound states with an energy buried in the continuous spectrum of scattered states, the so-called bound states in the continuum (BIC). Originally regarded as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Stefano Longhi , Giuseppe Della Valle