Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P Jin, P Zhuang… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Diffusion driven by temperature or concentration gradients is a fundamental mechanism of
energy and mass transport that inherently differs from wave propagation in both physical …

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 …

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 …

Topological phase transitions and mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasicrystals

Q Lin, T Li, L Xiao, K Wang, W Yi, P Xue - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the properties of topological models, leading to exotic
features such as the non-Hermitian skin effects and non-Bloch bulk-boundary …

Self-healing of non-Hermitian topological skin modes

S Longhi - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A unique feature of non-Hermitian (NH) systems is the NH skin effect, ie, the edge
localization of an extensive number of bulk-band eigenstates in a lattice with open or semi …

Non-Hermitian topological phase transitions controlled by nonlinearity

T Dai, Y Ao, J Mao, Y Yang, Y Zheng, C Zhai, Y Li… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Manipulating topological invariants is possible by modifying the global properties of optical
devices to alter their band structures. This could be achieved by statically altering devices or …

Hybrid skin-topological modes without asymmetric couplings

W Zhu, J Gong - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a
point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental …

Manipulating directional flow in a two-dimensional photonic quantum walk under a synthetic magnetic field

Q Lin, W Yi, P Xue - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Matter transport is a fundamental process in nature. Understanding and manipulating flow in
a synthetic media often have rich implications for modern device design. Here we …

Anomalous single-mode lasing induced by nonlinearity and the non-Hermitian skin effect

B Zhu, Q Wang, D Leykam, H Xue, QJ Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Single-mode operation is a desirable but elusive property for lasers operating at high pump
powers. Typically, single-mode lasing is attainable close to threshold, but increasing the …

𝓟𝓣-symmetric quantum mechanics

CM Bender, S Boettcher, PN Meisinger - Journal of Mathematical …, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
This paper proposes to broaden the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics.
Ordinarily, one imposes the condition H†= H on the Hamiltonian, where† represents the …