Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices

ZK Lin, Q Wang, Y Liu, H Xue, B Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics
of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals …

Observation of nonlinear fractal higher order topological insulator

H Zhong, VO Kompanets, Y Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique materials hosting topologically
protected states, whose dimensionality is at least by 2 lower than that of the bulk …

Photonic topological insulators in femtosecond laser direct-written waveguides

W Yan, B Zhang, F Chen - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Topological photonics attract significant interests due to their intriguing fundamental physics
and potential applications. Researchers are actively exploring various artificial platforms to …

Probing topology in nonlinear topological materials using numerical -theory

S Wong, TA Loring, A Cerjan - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Nonlinear topological insulators have garnered substantial recent attention as they have
both enabled the discovery of new physics due to interparticle interactions, and may have …

Theory of nonlinear corner states in photonic fractal lattices

B Ren, YV Kartashov, LJ Maczewsky, MS Kirsch… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
We study linear and nonlinear higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) based on
waveguide arrays arranged into Sierpiński gasket and Sierpiński carpet structures, both of …

Topological star junctions: Linear modes and solitons

YV Kartashov, VV Konotop - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
We address continuous two-dimensional (2D) star-junctions formed by different numbers of
Su–Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains that have one common waveguide in the center of the …

[HTML][HTML] Deterministic relation between thermal-phonon dressings and a non-Hermitian multi-Fano interferences router in ion-doped microcrystals

H Fan, F Raza, A Mujahid, P Li, Y Wang, H Tang… - Chip, 2024 - Elsevier
The multi-Fano interference, which is obtained through the simultaneous acquisition of
bright and dark states in different phase transitions of Eu 3+: BiPO 4 (7: 1, 6: 1, 1: 1, and 0.5 …

Bound-in-continuum-like corner states in the type-II Dirac photonic lattice

S Feng, H Zhong, MR Belić, D Mihalache, Y Li… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dirac points are special points in the energy band structure of various materials, around
which the dispersion is linear. If the corresponding Fermi surface is projected as a pair of …

Topological edge states in a photonic Floquet insulator with unpaired Dirac cones

H Zhong, YV Kartashov, Y Li, M Li, Y Zhang - Photonics Research, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Topological insulators are most frequently constructed using lattices with specific
degeneracies in their linear spectra, such as Dirac points. For a broad class of lattices, such …

Tutorial: Classifying Photonic Topology Using the Spectral Localizer and Numerical -Theory

A Cerjan, TA Loring - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03515, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recently, the spectral localizer framework has emerged as an efficient approach to
classifying topology in photonic systems featuring local nonlinearities and radiative …