Publications (11)
Left-handed Band in an Electromagnetic Metamaterial Inducedby Sub-wavelength Multiple Scattering
Simon Yves, Thomas Berthelot, Mathias Fink +2
Due to the deep sub-wavelength unit cell in metamaterials, the quasi-static approximation is usually employed to describe the propagation. By making pairs of resonators, we highlig…
Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals
Emanuele Galiffi, Giulia Carini, Xiang Ni +9
Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of inter…
Loss compensation and super-resolution with excitations at complex frequencies
Seunghwi Kim, Yu-Gui Peng, Simon Yves +1
Abbe diffraction limit fundamentally bounds the resolution of conventional optical imaging and spectroscopic systems. Along the years, several schemes have been introduced to overc…
Topological Metamaterials
Xiang Ni, Simon Yves, Alex Krasnok +1
One of the most significant breakthroughs in physics of the last decade has been the discovery that materials with non-trivial topological properties for electronic, electromagneti…
Symmetry-driven Phononic Metamaterials
Simon Yves, Michel Fruchart, Romain Fleury +4
Phonons are quasiparticles associated with mechanical vibrations in materials. They are at the root of the propagation of sound and elastic waves, as well as of thermal phenomena,…
Measuring Dirac Cones in a Sub-Wavelength Metamaterial
Simon Yves, Thomas Berthelot, Mathias Fink +2
The exciting discovery of bi-dimensional systems in condensed matter physics has triggered the search of their photonic analogues. In this letter, we describe a general scheme to r…
Crystalline metamaterials for topological properties at subwavelength scales
Simon Yves, Romain Fleury, Thomas Berthelot +3
The exciting discovery of topological condensed matter systems has lately triggered a search for their photonic analogs, motivated by the possibility of robust backscattering-immun…
Structure-Composition Correspondence in Crystalline Metamaterials for Acoustic Valley-Hall Effect and Unidirectional Sound Guiding
Simon Yves, Geoffroy Lerosey. Fabrice Lemoult
Recently, the domain of topological insulators in condensed matter physics has been teeming with intriguing and very exciting discoveries. Notably, the capacity of guiding currents…
Locally Polarized Wave Propagation through Metamaterials' Crystallinity
Simon Yves, Thomas Berthelot, Geoffroy Lerosey +1
Wave propagation control is of fundamental interest in many areas of Physics. It can be achieved with wavelength-scaled photonic crystals, hence avoiding low frequency applications…
Twist-Induced Hyperbolic Shear Metasurfaces
Simon Yves, Emanuele Galiffi, Xiang Ni +2
Following the discovery of moiré-driven superconductivity in twisted graphene multilayers, twistronics has spurred a surge of interest in tailored broken symmetries through angula…
Minkowski-Space Modeling of Hyperbolic Lenses
Enrico Maria Renzi, Simon Yves, Sveinung Erland +3
The extreme anisotropy of hyperbolic materials enables extreme wave confinement, but it is also associated with an inherent misalignment between phase and energy flow, which compli…