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20182026
most citedAcoustic non-Hermitian skin effect from twisted winding topology

350 citations · 580 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.optics2026

Agentic metasurface design with self-correcting language-model systems

Bei Wu, Bo Xiong, Haiyao Luo +5

Automated metasurface design is increasingly important, and recent advances in language-model systems are opening a route toward agentic optical design. Yet modern metasurface appl…

cs.AI2026

End-to-end autonomous scientific discovery on a real optical platform

Shuxing Yang, Fujia Chen, Rui Zhao +10

Scientific research has long been human-led, driving new knowledge and transformative technologies through the continual revision of questions, methods and claims as evidence accum…

physics.optics2026

Realizing anomalous Floquet non-Abelian band topology in photonic scattering networks

Yuze Hu, Mingyu Tong, Tian Jiang +10

The concept of multi-gap topology has recently been shown to give rise to uncharted phases beyond conventional single-gap classifications. These phases relate to band nodes with no…

physics.app-ph2025

Realization of Weyl elastic metamaterials with spin skyrmions

Yuang Pan, Liang Si, Miao Yang +18

Topological elastic metamaterials provide a topologically robust way to manipulate the phononic energy and information beyond the conventional approaches. Among various topological…

physics.optics2025

Photonic antiferromagnetic topological insulator with a single surface Dirac cone

Fujia Chen, Ning Han, Songyang Pu +12

Antiferromagnetism, characterized by magnetic moments aligned in alternating directions with a vanished ensemble average, has garnered renewed interest for its potential applicatio…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Ultrafast control of braiding topology in non-Hermitian metasurfaces

Yuze Hu, Mingyu Tong, Ziheng Ren +5

The mathematical theory of braids, influential across scientific disciplines, has emerged as a compelling strategy for light manipulation. Existing approaches to creating braids in…

physics.optics2024

Three-dimensional topological valley photonics

Wenhao Li, Qiaolu Chen, Ning Han +8

Topological valley photonics, which exploits valley degree of freedom to manipulate electromagnetic waves, offers a practical and effective pathway for various classical and quantu…

physics.optics2024

Observation of temporal topological boundary states of light in a momentum bandgap

Yudong Ren, Kangpeng Ye, Qiaolu Chen +8

Topological phases have prevailed across diverse disciplines, spanning electronics, photonics, and acoustics. Hitherto, the understanding of these phases has centred on energy (fre…

physics.optics2024

Boundary-induced topological chiral extended states in Weyl metamaterial waveguides

Ning Han, Fujia Chen, Mingzhu Li +9

In topological physics, it is commonly understood that the existence of the boundary states of a topological system is inherently dictated by its bulk. A classic example is that th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Real higher-order Weyl photonic crystal

Yuang Pan, Chaoxi Cui, Qiaolu Chen +9

Higher-order Weyl semimetals are a family of recently predicted topological phases simultaneously showcasing unconventional properties derived from Weyl points, such as chiral anom…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 4 cited

Anomalous Floquet Topological Disclination States

Haoye Qin, Zhe Zhang, Qiaolu Chen +1

Recently, non-reciprocal two-dimensional unitary scattering networks have gained considerable interest due to the possibility of obtaining robust edge wave propagation in the anoma…

physics.app-ph2022★ 4 cited

Demonstration of broadband topological slow light

Fujia Chen, Haoran Xue, Yuang Pan +12

Slow-light devices are able to significantly enhance light-matter interaction due to the reduced group velocity of light, but a very low group velocity is usually achieved in a nar…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 43 cited

Discovery of a maximally charged Weyl point

Qiaolu Chen, Fujia Chen, Qinghui Yan +7

The hypothetical Weyl particles in high-energy physics have been discovered in three-dimensional crystals as collective quasiparticle excitations near two-fold degenerate Weyl poin…

physics.class-ph2021★ 1 cited

Observation of topologically enabled complete polarization conversion

Fujia Chen, Zhen Gao, Li Zhang +8

Exploiting topological ideas has been a major theme in modern photonics, which provides unprecedented opportunities to design photonic devices with robustness against defects and f…

physics.app-ph2021★ 1 cited

Topological chiral edge states in deep-subwavelength valley photonic metamaterials

Rui Xi, Qiaolu Chen, Qinghui Yan +5

Topological valley photonics has emerged as a new frontier in photonics with many promising applications. Previous valley boundary transport relies on kink states at internal bound…

physics.app-ph2021★ 2 cited

Unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in non-Hermitian photonic continua

Qinghui Yan, Qiaolu Chen, Li Zhang +3

Unconventional Weyl points with topological charges higher than 1 can transform into various complex unconventional Weyl exceptional contours under non-Hermitian perturbations. How…

physics.app-ph2021★ 350 cited

Acoustic non-Hermitian skin effect from twisted winding topology

Li Zhang, Yihao Yang, Yong Ge +11

The recently discovered non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) manifests the breakdown of current classification of topological phases in energy-nonconservative systems, and necessitates…

physics.app-ph2020

Photonic topological valley-locked waveguides

Qiaolu Chen, Li Zhang, Qinghui Yan +3

Topological valley kink states have become a significant research frontier with considerable intriguing applications such as robust on-chip communications and topological lasers. U…

physics.app-ph2020★ 60 cited

Demonstration of topological wireless power transfer

Li Zhang, Yihao Yang, Zhao Jiang +6

Recent advances in non-radiative wireless power transfer (WPT) technique essentially relying on magnetic resonance and near-field coupling have successfully enabled a wide range of…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

Negative refraction of ultra-squeezed in-plane hyperbolic designer polaritons

Qiaolu Chen, Yihao Yang, Li Zhang +6

The in-plane negative refraction of high-momentum (i.e., high-k) photonic modes could enable many applications such as imaging and hyperlensing in a planar platform at deep-subwave…

physics.app-ph2019★ 111 cited

Higher-order photonic topological states in surface-wave photonic crystals

Li Zhang, Yihao Yang, Pengfei Qin +6

Photonic topological states have revolutionized our understanding on the propagation and scattering of light. Recent discovery of higher-order photonic topological insulators opens…

physics.app-ph2018★ 2 cited

Valley-Hall photonic topological insulators with dual-band kink states

Qiaolu Chen, Li Zhang, Mengjia He +6

Extensive researches have revealed that valley, a binary degree of freedom (DOF), can be an excellent candidate of information carrier. Recently, valley DOF has been introduced int…