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Observation of fractality-induced topology in photonic crystals
Bei Yan, Yingfeng Qi, Xiang Xi +6
Fractal topology--achieved by integrating nontrivial topology into fractal geometries with self-similarity and non-integer dimensions--has opened new avenues for exploring topologi…
Orbital Altermagnetic Photonic Crystal
Sichang Qiu, Huichang Li, Yan Meng +6
Altermagnetism features momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, extending spintronics beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. However, the p…
Spatiotemporal topological phase transitions in photonic spacetime crystals
Zebin Zhu, Bolun Huang, Siqi Xu +5
Topological phase transitions have played a central role in topological physics. However, such transitions have so far been restricted to spatial or temporal crystals. Here, we tra…
Three-dimensional topological disclination in acoustic crystals
Zhenxiao Zhu, Yan Meng, Minmiao Wang +11
Topological disclinations, crystallographic defects that break rotation lattice symmetry, have attracted great interest and exhibited wide applications in cavities, waveguides, and…
Topological Dirac-vortex modes in a three-dimensional photonic topological insulator
Bei Yan, Yingfeng Qi, Ziyao Wang +8
Recently, topological Dirac-vortex modes in Kekulé-distorted photonic lattices have attracted broad interest and exhibited promising applications in robust photonic devices such as…
Realization of Topology-controlled Photonic Cavities in a Valley Photonic Crystal
Bei Yan, Baoliang Liao, Fulong Shi +11
We report an experimental realization of a new type of topology-controlled photonic cavities in valley photonic crystals by adopting judiciously oriented mirrors to localize the va…
Photonic bilayer Chern insulator with corner states
Subhaskar Mandal, Ziyao Wang, Rimi Banerjee +6
Photonic Chern insulators can be implemented in gyromagnetic photonic crystals with broken time-reversal (TR) symmetry. They exhibit gapless chiral edge states (CESs), enabling uni…
Realization of a three-dimensional photonic higher-order topological insulator
Ziyao Wang, Yan Meng, Bei Yan +13
The discovery of photonic higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) has significantly expanded our understanding of band topology and provided unprecedented lower-dimensional top…
Observation of tunable topological polaritons in a cavity waveguide
Dong Zhao, Ziyao Wang, Linyun Yang +9
Topological polaritons characterized by light-matter interactions have become a pivotal platform in exploring new topological phases of matter. Recent theoretical advances unveiled…
Acoustic Three-dimensional Chern Insulators with Arbitrary Chern Vectors
Yang Linyun, Xi Xiang, Meng Yan +13
The Chern vector is a vectorial generalization of the scalar Chern number, being able to characterize the topological phase of three-dimensional (3D) Chern insulators. Such a vecto…
Localization of chiral edge states by the non-Hermitian skin effect
Gui-Geng Liu, Subhaskar Mandal, Peiheng Zhou +11
Quantum Hall systems host chiral edge states extending along the one-dimensional boundary of any two-dimensional sample. In solid state materials, the edge states serve as perfectl…
Brillouin Klein space and half-turn space in three-dimensional acoustic crystals
Zhenxiao Zhu, Linyun Yang, Jien Wu +14
The Bloch band theory and Brillouin zone (BZ) that characterize wave behaviors in periodic mediums are two cornerstones of contemporary physics ranging from condensed matter to top…
Testing holographic duality in hyperbolic lattices
Jingming Chen, Feiyu Chen, Linyun Yang +16
The celebrated holographic duality posits a correspondence between a quantum gravity in a bulk spacetime and a quantum field theory (QFT) defined on its lower-dimensional boundary.…
Realization of a quadrupole topological insulator phase in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal
Peiheng Zhou, Gui-Geng Liu, Zihao Wang +8
The field of topological photonics was initiated with the realization of a Chern insulator phase in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal (PhC) with broken time-reversal symmetry (T), ho…
Spinful topological phases in acoustic crystals with projective PT symmetry
Yan Meng, Shuxin Lin, Bin-jie Shi +14
For the classification of topological phases of matter, an important consideration is whether a system is spinless or spinful, as these two classes have distinct symmetry algebra t…
Observation of roton-like dispersion relations in acoustic metamaterials
Zhenxiao Zhu, Zhen Gao, Gui-Geng Liu +8
Roton dispersion relations, displaying a pronounced "roton" minimum at finite momentum, were firstly predicted by Landau and have been extensively explored in correlated quantum sy…
Observation of Weyl point pair annihilation in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal
Gui-Geng Liu, Zhen Gao, Peiheng Zhou +9
Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional (3D) phases whose bandstructures contain Weyl point (WP) degeneracies. WPs carry topological charge and can only be eliminated by mutu…