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Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials
F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145
Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…
Visualization of atomistic optical waves in crystals
Jungho Mun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob
The refractive index of a matter is foundational to quantify the light-matter interaction of the medium. However, the classical description of refractive index is based on macrosco…
Unraveling Optical Polarization at Deep Microscopic Scales in Crystalline Materials
Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob
Nanophotonics, the study of light-matter interaction at scales smaller than the wavelength of radiation, has widespread applications in plasmonic waveguiding, topological photonic…
Computational Electromagnetics Meets Spin Qubits: Controlling Noise Effects in Quantum Sensing and Computing
Wenbo Sun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Runwei Zhou +2
Solid-state spin qubits have emerged as promising platforms for quantum information. Despite extensive efforts in controlling noise in spin qubit quantum applications, one importan…
Quantum theory of orbital angular momentum in spatiotemporal optical vortices
Pronoy Das, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob
Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices (STOVs) are structured electromagnetic fields propagating in free space with phase singularities in the space-time domain. Depending on the tilt of…
Observation of non-contact Casimir friction
Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen +3
Quantum mechanics predicts the occurrence of random electromagnetic field fluctuations, or virtual photons, in vacuum. The exchange of virtual photons between two bodies in relativ…
Giant Enhancement of Vacuum Friction in Spinning YIG Nanospheres
Farhad Khosravi, Wenbo Sun, Chinmay Khandekar +2
Experimental observations of vacuum radiation and vacuum frictional torque are challenging due to their vanishingly small effects in practical systems. For example, a rotating nano…
Why are thermal images blurry
Fanglin Bao, Shubhankar Jape, Andrew Schramka +3
The resolution of optical imaging is limited by diffraction as well as detector noise. However, thermal imaging exhibits an additional unique phenomenon of ghosting which results i…
Optical N-plasmon: Topological hydrodynamic excitations in Graphene from repulsive Hall viscosity
Wenbo Sun, Todd Van Mechelen, Sathwik Bharadwaj +2
Edge states occurring in Chern and quantum spin-Hall phases are signatures of the topological electronic band structure in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Recently, a new topologic…
First-Principles Study of Large Gyrotropy in MnBi for Infrared Thermal Photonics
Md Roknuzzaman, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Yifan Wang +4
Nonreciprocal gyrotropic materials have attracted significant interest recently in material physics, nanophotonics, and topological physics. Most of the well-known nonreciprocal ma…
Spinning Metasurface Stack for Spectro-polarimetric Thermal Imaging
Xueji Wang, Ziyi Yang, Fanglin Bao +2
Spectro-polarimetric imaging in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) region plays a crucial role in applications from night vision and machine perception to trace gas sensing and thermogr…
Nonequilibrium Hanbury-Brown-Twiss experiment: Theory and application to binary stars
Adrian E. Rubio Lopez, Ashwin K. Boddeti, Fanglin Bao +2
Intensity-interferometry based on Hanbury-Brown and Twiss's seminal experiment for determining the radius of the star Sirius formed the basis for developing the quantum theory of l…
Limits to Quantum Gate Fidelity from Near-Field Thermal and Vacuum Fluctuations
Wenbo Sun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Li-Ping Yang +5
High-fidelity quantum gate operations are essential for achieving scalable quantum circuits. In spin qubit quantum computing systems, metallic gates and antennas which are necessar…
Observation of Non-Vanishing Optical Helicity in Thermal Radiation from Symmetry-Broken Metasurfaces
Xueji Wang, Tyler Sentz, Sathwik Bharadwaj +5
Spinning thermal radiation is a unique phenomenon observed in condensed astronomical objects including the Wolf-Rayet star EZ-CMa and the red degenerate star G99-47, due to existen…
Switching and amplifying three-body Casimir effects
Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao +3
The dynamics of three interacting objects has been investigated extensively in Newtonian gravitational physics (often termed the three-body problem), and is important for many quan…
Broadband circularly polarized thermal radiation from magnetic Weyl semimetals
Yifan Wang, Chinmay Khandekar, Xingyu Gao +3
We numerically demonstrate that a planar slab made of magnetic Weyl semimetal (a class of topological materials) can emit high-purity circularly polarized (CP) thermal radiation ov…
Non-reciprocal energy transfer through the Casimir effect
Zhujing Xu, Xingyu Gao, Jaehoon Bang +2
A fundamental prediction of quantum mechanics is that there are random fluctuations everywhere in a vacuum because of the zero-point energy. Remarkably, quantum electromagnetic flu…