Higher-order band topology

B Xie, HX Wang, X Zhang, P Zhan, JH Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
A conventional topological insulator (TI) has gapped bulk states but gapless edge states.
The emergence of the gapless edge states is dictated by the bulk topological invariant of the …

Strongly correlated electron–photon systems

J Bloch, A Cavalleri, V Galitski, M Hafezi, A Rubio - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
An important goal of modern condensed-matter physics involves the search for states of
matter with emergent properties and desirable functionalities. Although the tools for material …

Phototunable chip-scale topological photonics: 160 Gbps waveguide and demultiplexer for THz 6G communication

A Kumar, M Gupta, P Pitchappa, N Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The revolutionary 5G cellular systems represent a breakthrough in the communication
network design to provide a single platform for enabling enhanced broadband …

Non-Hermitian morphing of topological modes

W Wang, X Wang, G Ma - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Topological modes (TMs) are usually localized at defects or boundaries of a much larger
topological lattice,. Recent studies of non-Hermitian band theories unveiled the non …

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 …

Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

Z Chen, M Segev - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Let there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and
ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science …

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 …

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics: Collective radiance and photon-photon correlations

AS Sheremet, MI Petrov, IV Iorsh, AV Poshakinskiy… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
This review describes the emerging field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics concerned
with the interaction of photons propagating in a waveguide with localized quantum emitters …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Dielectric resonant metaphotonics

K Koshelev, Y Kivshar - Acs Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent rapid progress in subwavelength optics and nanophotonics with dielectric structures
is underpinned by the physics of Mie resonances excited in nanoparticles with a high …