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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review of topological photonics in one, two, and three dimensions

Z Lan, MLN Chen, F Gao, S Zhang, EI Wei - Reviews in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological photonics has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the unique
opportunities it provides to manipulate light in a robust way immune to disorder and defects …

Observation of a phononic higher-order Weyl semimetal

L Luo, HX Wang, ZK Lin, B Jiang, Y Wu, F Li… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Weyl semimetals (WSMs) exhibit phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states, pseudo-
gauge fields and quantum anomalies that arise from topological band degeneracy in …

Recent progress in terahertz metamaterial modulators

R Degl'Innocenti, H Lin, M Navarro-Cía - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Abstract The terahertz (0.1–10 THz) range represents a fast-evolving research and industrial
field. The great interest for this portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which lies between …

Terahertz surface plasmonic waves: a review

X Zhang, Q Xu, L Xia, Y Li, J Gu, Z Tian… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Terahertz science and technology promise many cutting-edge applications. Terahertz
surface plasmonic waves that propagate at metal–dielectric interfaces deliver a potentially …

Topological antichiral surface states in a magnetic Weyl photonic crystal

X Xi, B Yan, L Yang, Y Meng, ZX Zhu, JM Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chiral edge states that propagate oppositely at two parallel strip edges are a hallmark
feature of Chern insulators which were first proposed in the celebrated two-dimensional (2D) …

Topological photonics in synthetic dimensions

E Lustig, M Segev - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Topological photonics is a new and rapidly growing field that deals with topological phases
and topological insulators for light. Recently, the scope of these systems was expanded …

All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials

Y Liu, GP Wang, JB Pendry, S Zhang - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Negative refraction, an unnatural optical phenomenon in which the incident and the
refracted waves reside on the same side of the surface normal, has been demonstrated with …

Real higher-order Weyl photonic crystal

Y Pan, C Cui, Q Chen, F Chen, L Zhang, Y Ren… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Higher-order Weyl semimetals are a family of recently predicted topological phases
simultaneously showcasing unconventional properties derived from Weyl points, such as …