Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

Hyperuniform states of matter

S Torquato - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Hyperuniform states of matter are correlated systems that are characterized by an
anomalous suppression of long-wavelength (ie, large-length-scale) density fluctuations …

On the expressive power of geometric graph neural networks

CK Joshi, C Bodnar, SV Mathis… - … on machine learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
The expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been studied extensively
through the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) graph isomorphism test. However, standard GNNs and …

Fractal photonic topological insulators

T Biesenthal, LJ Maczewsky, Z Yang, M Kremer… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological insulators constitute a newly characterized state of matter that contains scatter-
free edge states surrounding an insulating bulk. Conventional wisdom regards the insulating …

Three-dimensional atomic packing in amorphous solids with liquid-like structure

Y Yuan, DS Kim, J Zhou, DJ Chang, F Zhu… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Liquids and solids are two fundamental states of matter. However, our understanding of their
three-dimensional atomic structure is mostly based on physical models. Here we use atomic …

Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal

SJ Ahn, P Moon, TH Kim, HW Kim, HC Shin, EH Kim… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Quantum states of quasiparticles in solids are dictated by symmetry. We have experimentally
demonstrated quantum states of Dirac electrons in a two-dimensional quasicrystal without …

The evolution of scientific disciplines in applied sciences: dynamics and empirical properties of experimental physics

M Coccia - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
How do scientific disciplines evolve? This is one of the fundamental problems of the
dynamics of science. This study confronts this problem here by investigating the evolution of …

Metallic phase with long-range orientational order and no translational symmetry

D Shechtman, I Blech, D Gratias, JW Cahn - Physical review letters, 1984 - APS
We have observed a metallic solid (Al-14-at.%-Mn) with long-range orientational order, but
with icosahedral point group symmetry, which is inconsistent with lattice translations. Its …

Diffusion in disordered media

S Havlin, D Ben-Avraham - Advances in physics, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
Diffusion in disordered systems does not follow the classical laws which describe transport
in ordered crystalline media, and this leads to many anomalous physical properties. Since …

Optics of photonic quasicrystals

ZV Vardeny, A Nahata, A Agrawal - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
The physics of periodic systems are of fundamental importance and result in various
phenomena that govern wave transport and interference. However, deviations from …