The study of phononic materials and structures is an emerging discipline that lies at the
crossroads of vibration and acoustics engineering and condensed matter physics. Broadly …

Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

Self-assembling colloidal particles in the cubic diamond crystal structure could potentially be
used to make materials with a photonic bandgap,–. Such materials are beneficial because …

Symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum (SP-BICs) are one of the most intensively
studied BICs. Typically, SP-BICs must be converted into quasi-BICs (QBICs) by breaking the …

Backscattering suppression in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) is one of the central issues to
reduce energy loss and signal distortion, enabling for capability improvement of modern …

In state-of-the-art self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training produces semantically good
representations by encouraging them to be invariant under meaningful transformations …

The ideas of topology have found tremendous success in closed physical systems, but even
richer properties exist in the more general open or dissipative framework. We theoretically …

The surface energy is a fundamental property of the different facets of a crystal that is crucial
to the understanding of various phenomena like surface segregation, roughening, catalytic …

We derive in the present work topological photonic states purely based on conventional
dielectric material by deforming a honeycomb lattice of cylinders into a triangular lattice of …

Single atoms and atomlike defects in solids are ideal quantum light sources and memories
for quantum networks. However, most atomic transitions are in the ultraviolet-visible portion …