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 …

A second wave of topological phenomena in photonics and acoustics

X Zhang, F Zangeneh-Nejad, ZG Chen, MH Lu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Light and sound are the most ubiquitous forms of waves, associated with a variety of
phenomena and physical effects such as rainbows and echoes. Light and sound, both …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review of topological photonics in one, two, and three dimensions

Z Lan, MLN Chen, F Gao, S Zhang, EI Wei - Reviews in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological photonics has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the unique
opportunities it provides to manipulate light in a robust way immune to disorder and defects …

Hyperbolic shear polaritons in low-symmetry crystals

NC Passler, X Ni, G Hu, JR Matson, G Carini, M Wolf… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The lattice symmetry of a crystal is one of the most important factors in determining its
physical properties. Particularly, low-symmetry crystals offer powerful opportunities to control …

Acoustic realization of quadrupole topological insulators

Y Qi, C Qiu, M Xiao, H He, M Ke, Z Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
A quadrupole topological insulator, being one higher-order topological insulator with
nontrivial quadrupole quantization, has been intensely investigated very recently. However …

Roadmap on electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces

TJ Cui, S Zhang, A Alù, M Wegener… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials

Y Liu, GP Wang, JB Pendry, S Zhang - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Negative refraction, an unnatural optical phenomenon in which the incident and the
refracted waves reside on the same side of the surface normal, has been demonstrated with …

Observation of Weyl exceptional rings in thermal diffusion

G Xu, W Li, X Zhou, H Li, Y Li, S Fan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
A non-Hermitian Weyl equation indispensably requires a three-dimensional (3D)
real/synthetic space, and it is thereby perceived that a Weyl exceptional ring (WER) will not …