Topological photonic crystals: physics, designs, and applications

GJ Tang, XT He, FL Shi, JW Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel
topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of …

Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics

M Kim, Z Jacob, J Rho - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, topology has emerged as a major branch in broad areas of physics,
from atomic lattices to condensed matter. In particular, topology has received significant …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids

NP Armitage, EJ Mele, A Vishwanath - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three-dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic
excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three-dimensional analogs of …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review of topological photonics in one, two, and three dimensions

Z Lan, MLN Chen, F Gao, S Zhang, EI Wei - Reviews in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological photonics has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the unique
opportunities it provides to manipulate light in a robust way immune to disorder and defects …

Experimental realization of a Weyl exceptional ring

A Cerjan, S Huang, M Wang, KP Chen, Y Chong… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Weyl points are isolated degeneracies in reciprocal space that are monopoles of the Berry
curvature. This topological charge makes them inherently robust to Hermitian perturbations …

Weyl points and Fermi arcs in a chiral phononic crystal

F Li, X Huang, J Lu, J Ma, Z Liu - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Topological semimetals are materials whose band structure contains touching points that
are topologically nontrivial and can host quasiparticle excitations that behave as Dirac or …

Topological photonics

T Ozawa, HM Price, A Amo, N Goldman, M Hafezi… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and
topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing …

Experimental observation of optical Weyl points and Fermi arc-like surface states

J Noh, S Huang, D Leykam, YD Chong, KP Chen… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Weyl fermions are hypothetical two-component massless relativistic particles in three-
dimensional (3D) space, proposed by Hermann Weyl in 1929. Their band-crossing points …

All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials

Y Liu, GP Wang, JB Pendry, S Zhang - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Negative refraction, an unnatural optical phenomenon in which the incident and the
refracted waves reside on the same side of the surface normal, has been demonstrated with …