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physics.optics2026

Mode Conversion of Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in van der Waals terraces

Byung-Il Noh, Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh, Mingyuan Chen +7

Electromagnetic hyperbolicity has driven key functionalities in nanophotonics, including super-resolution imaging, efficient energy control, and extreme light manipulation. Central…

quant-ph2024

Temperature dependent spin-phonon coupling of boron-vacancy centers in hexagonal boron nitride

Zhongyuan Liu, Ruotian Gong, Benchen Huang +9

The negatively charged boron-vacancy center () in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently emerged as a highly promising quantum sensor. Compared to th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Ultrafast evanescent heat transfer across solid interfaces via hyperbolic phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride

William Hutchins, John A. Tomko, Dan M. Hirt +10

The efficiency of phonon-mediated heat transport is limited by the intrinsic atomistic properties of materials, seemingly providing an upper limit to heat transfer in materials and…

physics.optics2025

Superluminal Correlations in Ensembles of Optical Phase Singularities

Tomer Bucher, Alexey Gorlach, Arthur Niedermayr +16

Phase singularities are universal features found across diverse wave systems. Their ensembles exhibit distance correlations governing exotic material phases. However, the full corr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Thickness and twist angle dependent interlayer excitons in metal monochalcogenide heterostructures

Wenkai Zheng, Li Xiang, Felipe de Quesada +18

Interlayer excitons, or bound electron-hole pairs whose constituent quasiparticles are located in distinct stacked semiconducting layers, are being intensively studied in heterobil…