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 …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear control of photonic higher-order topological bound states in the continuum

Z Hu, D Bongiovanni, D Jukić, E Jajtić, S Xia… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are recently discovered topological phases,
possessing symmetry-protected corner states with fractional charges. An unexpected …

All-optical probe of three-dimensional topological insulators based on high-harmonic generation by circularly polarized laser fields

D Baykusheva, A Chacón, J Lu, TP Bailey… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the observation of an anomalous nonlinear optical response of the prototypical
three-dimensional topological insulator bismuth selenide through the process of high-order …

Observation of Anomalous Modes in Photonic Floquet Engineering

Q Cheng, Y Pan, H Wang, C Zhang, D Yu, A Gover… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Recent progress on Floquet topological phases has shed new light on time-dependant
quantum systems, among which one-dimensional (1D) Floquet systems have been under …

Towards large-Chern-number topological phases by periodic quenching

TS Xiong, J Gong, JH An - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Topological phases with large Chern numbers have important implications. They were
previously predicted to exist by considering fabricated long-range interactions or …

Lightwave control of topological properties in 2D materials for sub-cycle and non-resonant valley manipulation

A Jiménez-Galán, REF Silva, O Smirnova, M Ivanov - Nature Photonics, 2020 - nature.com
Modern light generation technology offers extraordinary capabilities for sculpting light
pulses, with full control over individual electric field oscillations within each laser cycle …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced light-matter interactions at photonic magic-angle topological transitions

G Hu, C Zheng, J Ni, CW Qiu, A Alù - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In analogy to Lifshitz transitions in electronic systems, topological transitions have recently
attracted widespread attention in photonic metamaterials, metasurfaces, and two …

Gap solitons in a one-dimensional driven-dissipative topological lattice

N Pernet, P St-Jean, DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear topological photonics is an emerging field that aims to extend the fascinating
properties of topological states to a regime where interactions between the system …

[HTML][HTML] Selective scattering between Floquet–Bloch and Volkov states in a topological insulator

F Mahmood, CK Chan, Z Alpichshev, D Gardner… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The coherent optical manipulation of solids is emerging as a promising way to engineer
novel quantum states of matter,,,,. The strong time-periodic potential of intense laser light …

Lasing at multidimensional topological states in a two-dimensional photonic crystal structure

C Han, M Kang, H Jeon - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recently, topologically engineered photonic structures have garnered significant attention,
as their eigenstates may offer a new insight on photon manipulation and an unconventional …