Higher-order band topology

B Xie, HX Wang, X Zhang, P Zhan, JH Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
A conventional topological insulator (TI) has gapped bulk states but gapless edge states.
The emergence of the gapless edge states is dictated by the bulk topological invariant of the …

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 …

[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 …

Topological metasurface: From passive toward active and beyond

JW You, Z Lan, Q Ma, Z Gao, Y Yang, F Gao… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces are subwavelength structured thin films consisting of arrays of units that allow
the control of polarization, phase, and amplitude of light over a subwavelength thickness …

Broadband and fabrication-tolerant 3-dB couplers with topological valley edge modes

GJ Tang, XD Chen, L Sun, CH Guo, MY Li… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
dB couplers, which are commonly used in photonic integrated circuits for on-chip information
processing, precision measurement, and quantum computing, face challenges in achieving …

Nonlinear imaging of nanoscale topological corner states

SS Kruk, W Gao, DY Choi, T Zentgraf, S Zhang… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Topological states of light represent counterintuitive optical modes localized at boundaries
of finite-size optical structures that originate from the properties of the bulk. Being defined by …

Strong light–matter interactions between gap plasmons and two-dimensional excitons under ambient conditions in a deterministic way

L Yang, X Xie, J Yang, M Xue, S Wu, S Xiao, F Song… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Strong exciton–plasmon interactions between layered two-dimensional (2D)
semiconductors and gap plasmons show a great potential to implement cavity quantum …

Topological corner modes induced by Dirac vortices in arbitrary geometry

X Wu, Y Meng, Y Hao, RY Zhang, J Li, X Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Recently, higher-order topologies have been experimentally realized, featuring topological
corner modes (TCMs) between adjacent topologically distinct domains. However, they have …

Rainbow trapping based on higher-order topological corner modes

L Liang, X Zhou, JH Hu, HX Wang, JH Jiang, B Hou - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The recent advancements in higher-order topology have provided unprecedented
opportunities in optical device designs and applications. Here, we propose a new, to the …

Higher-order topological phases in crystalline and non-crystalline systems: a review

YB Yang, JH Wang, K Li, Y Xu - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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