A review on non-Hermitian skin effect

X Zhang, T Zhang, MH Lu, YF Chen - Advances in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The past decades have witnessed the flourishing of non-Hermitian physics in non-
conservative systems, leading to unprecedented phenomena of unidirectional invisibility …

[HTML][HTML] Orbital angular momentum of light for communications

AE Willner, K Pang, H Song, K Zou, H Zhou - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Structured light, especially beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has gained
much interest due to its unique amplitude and phase structures. In terms of communication …

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 …

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Multidimensional phase singularities in nanophotonics

J Ni, C Huang, LM Zhou, M Gu, Q Song, Y Kivshar… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Optical vortices provide one of the promising solutions for enhancing the
capacity of data multiplexing to meet an unprecedented growth in big data and internet traffic …

Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation

Y Guo, S Zhang, M Pu, Q He, J Jin, M Xu… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
With inherent orthogonality, both the spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular
momentum (OAM) of photons have been utilized to expand the dimensions of quantum …

Observation of higher-order non-Hermitian skin effect

X Zhang, Y Tian, JH Jiang, MH Lu, YF Chen - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Beyond the scope of Hermitian physics, non-Hermiticity fundamentally changes the
topological band theory, leading to interesting phenomena, eg, non-Hermitian skin effect, as …

Helical polymers for dissymmetric circularly polarized light imaging

I Song, J Ahn, H Ahn, SH Lee, J Mei, NA Kotov, JH Oh - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Control of the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried in a photon provides a technologically
attractive element for next-generation quantum networks and spintronics,,,–. However, the …

Mid-infrared semimetal polarization detectors with configurable polarity transition

J Wei, C Xu, B Dong, CW Qiu, C Lee - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
On-chip polarization-sensitive photodetectors offer unique opportunities for next-generation
ultra-compact polarimeters. So far, mainstream approaches have relied on the anisotropic …

Phyllotaxis-inspired nanosieves with multiplexed orbital angular momentum

Z Jin, D Janoschka, J Deng, L Ge, P Dreher, B Frank… - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Nanophotonic platforms such as metasurfaces, achieving arbitrary phase profiles within
ultrathin thickness, emerge as miniaturized, ultracompact and kaleidoscopic optical vortex …