Topological photonic crystals: physics, designs, and applications

GJ Tang, XT He, FL Shi, JW Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel
topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of …

Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics

M Kim, Z Jacob, J Rho - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, topology has emerged as a major branch in broad areas of physics,
from atomic lattices to condensed matter. In particular, topology has received significant …

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 …

Thouless pumping and topology

R Citro, M Aidelsburger - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Thouless pumping provides one of the simplest manifestations of topology in quantum
systems and has attracted a lot of recent interest, both theoretically and experimentally …

Nonlinearity-induced photonic topological insulator

LJ Maczewsky, M Heinrich, M Kremer, SK Ivanov… - Science, 2020 - science.org
A hallmark feature of topological insulators is robust edge transport that is impervious to
scattering at defects and lattice disorder. We demonstrate a topological system, using a …

Topological phases of non-Hermitian systems

Z Gong, Y Ashida, K Kawabata, K Takasan… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
While Hermiticity lies at the heart of quantum mechanics, recent experimental advances in
controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non …

Observation of non-Hermitian topology and its bulk–edge correspondence in an active mechanical metamaterial

A Ghatak, M Brandenbourger… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Topological edge modes are excitations that are localized at the materials' edges and yet
are characterized by a topological invariant defined in the bulk. Such bulk–edge …

Roadmap on topological photonics

H Price, Y Chong, A Khanikaev… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological photonics seeks to control the behaviour of the light through the design of
protected topological modes in photonic structures. While this approach originated from …

Two-dimensional topological photonics

AB Khanikaev, G Shvets - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Originating from the studies of two-dimensional condensed-matter states, the concept of
topological order has recently been expanded to other fields of physics and engineering …

Hyperbolic band topology with non-trivial second Chern numbers

W Zhang, F Di, X Zheng, H Sun, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Topological band theory establishes a standardized framework for classifying different types
of topological matters. Recent investigations have shown that hyperbolic lattices in non …