Topological phases in acoustic and mechanical systems

G Ma, M Xiao, CT Chan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The study of classical wave physics has been reinvigorated by incorporating the concept of
the geometric phase, which has its roots in optics, and topological notions that were …

Photonic crystal nanocavity based on a topological corner state

Y Ota, F Liu, R Katsumi, K Watanabe, K Wakabayashi… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Topological photonics has emerged as a novel approach to engineering the flow of light and
provides unprecedented means for developing diverse photonic elements, including robust …

Geometric phase and band inversion in periodic acoustic systems

M Xiao, G Ma, Z Yang, P Sheng, ZQ Zhang, CT Chan - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The geometric-phase concept has far-reaching implications in many branches of
physics,,,,,,,,,,,,,. The geometric phase that specifically characterizes the topological property …

A short review of all-dielectric topological photonic crystals

HX Wang, JH Jiang - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Topological photonics is an emergent field at the cross of photonics and topological physics
which opens our eyes to novel topological phenomena and versatile photonic effects …

Optical interface states protected by synthetic Weyl points

Q Wang, M Xiao, H Liu, S Zhu, CT Chan - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Weyl fermions have not been found in nature as elementary particles, but they emerge as
nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel …

Finite barrier bound state

T Liu, K Bai, Y Zhang, D Wan, Y Lai, CT Chan… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
A boundary mode localized on one side of a finite-size lattice can tunnel to the opposite side
which results in unwanted couplings. Conventional wisdom tells that the tunneling …

Dynamical topological quantum phase transitions at criticality

M Sadrzadeh, R Jafari, A Langari - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The nonequilibrium dynamics of two-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, in the
presence of staggered chemical potential, is investigated using the notion of dynamical …

Absorption reduction of large purcell enhancement enabled by topological state-led mode coupling

Z Qian, Z Li, H Hao, L Shan, Q Zhang, J Dong… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We propose the mechanism of edge state-led mode coupling under topological protection;
ie, localized surface plasmons almost do not have any influence on the edge state, while the …

The existence of topological edge states in honeycomb plasmonic lattices

L Wang, RY Zhang, M Xiao, D Han… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we investigate the band properties of 2D honeycomb plasmonic lattices
consisting of metallic nanoparticles. By means of the coupled dipole method and quasi-static …

Armchair edge states in shear-strained graphene: Magnetic properties and quantum valley Hall edge states

R Li, PH Fu, JF Liu, J Wang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Typically, edge states in graphene are known to exist solely along zigzag edges. However,
in this paper, we present a theoretical discovery of edge states along armchair edges in …