Topological non-Hermitian skin effect

R Lin, T Tai, L Li, CH Lee - Frontiers of Physics, 2023 - Springer
This article reviews recent developments in the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE),
particularly on its rich interplay with topology. The review starts off with a pedagogical …

Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials

H Nassar, B Yousefzadeh, R Fleury… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The law of reciprocity in acoustics and elastodynamics codifies a relation of symmetry
between action and reaction in fluids and solids. In its simplest form, it states that the …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Nonlinear topological photonics

D Smirnova, D Leykam, Y Chong… - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating
compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses …

Nonlinear tuning of PT symmetry and non-Hermitian topological states

S Xia, D Kaltsas, D Song, I Komis, J Xu, A Szameit… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Topology, parity-time (PT) symmetry, and nonlinearity are at the origin of many fundamental
phenomena in complex systems across the natural sciences, but their mutual interplay …

Active Ultrahigh‐Q (0.2 × 106) THz Topological Cavities on a Chip

A Kumar, M Gupta, P Pitchappa, TC Tan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid scaling of semiconductor devices has led to an increase in the number of processor
cores and integrated functionalities onto a single chip to support the growing demands of …

Ceramic‐based dielectric metamaterials

W Luo, S Yan, J Zhou - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectric metamaterials based on ceramics have attracted considerable interest in the past
few years owing to their low dielectric loss, simple structure, excellent multifield tunability …

Simulating hyperbolic space on a circuit board

PM Lenggenhager, A Stegmaier, LK Upreti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Laplace operator encodes the behavior of physical systems at vastly different scales,
describing heat flow, fluids, as well as electric, gravitational, and quantum fields. A key input …

Nonlinear second-order topological insulators

F Zangeneh-Nejad, R Fleury - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, the concept of nonlinear second-
order topological insulators, a class of bulk insulators with quantized Wannier centers and a …

Observation of edge solitons in photonic graphene

Z Zhang, R Wang, Y Zhang, YV Kartashov, F Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Edge states emerge in diverse areas of science, offering promising opportunities for the
development of future electronic or optoelectronic devices, sound and light propagation …