A second wave of topological phenomena in photonics and acoustics

X Zhang, F Zangeneh-Nejad, ZG Chen, MH Lu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Light and sound are the most ubiquitous forms of waves, associated with a variety of
phenomena and physical effects such as rainbows and echoes. Light and sound, both …

Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

Z Chen, M Segev - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Let there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and
ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science …

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 …

Non-Abelian braiding on photonic chips

XL Zhang, F Yu, ZG Chen, ZN Tian, QD Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Non-Abelian braiding has attracted substantial attention because of its pivotal role in
describing the exchange behaviour of anyons—candidates for realizing quantum logics. The …

Nonreciprocal optomechanical entanglement against backscattering losses

YF Jiao, SD Zhang, YL Zhang, A Miranowicz… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We propose how to achieve nonreciprocal quantum entanglement of light and motion and
reveal its counterintuitive robustness against random losses. We find that by splitting the …

Non-Abelian physics in light and sound

Y Yang, B Yang, G Ma, J Li, S Zhang, CT Chan - Science, 2024 - science.org
Non-Abelian phenomena arise when the sequence of operations on physical systems
influences their behaviors. By possessing internal degrees of freedom such as polarization …

Temporal multilayer structures in discrete physical systems towards arbitrary-dimensional non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm interferences

Z Dong, X Wu, Y Yang, P Yu, X Chen, L Yuan - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Temporal modulation recently draws great attentions in wave manipulations, with which one
can introduce the concept of temporal multilayer structure, a temporal counterpart of spatially …

Non-abelian inverse Anderson transitions

W Zhang, H Wang, H Sun, X Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Inverse Anderson transitions, where the flat-band localization is destroyed by disorder, have
been wildly investigated in quantum and classical systems in the presence of Abelian gauge …

Classical non-Abelian braiding of acoustic modes

ZG Chen, RY Zhang, CT Chan, G Ma - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Non-Abelian braiding is regarded as an essential process for realizing quantum logic. Its
realizations in quantum systems often rely on the dynamic winding of anyons, which can be …

Phase-controlled asymmetric optomechanical entanglement against optical backscattering

JX Liu, YF Jiao, Y Li, XW Xu, QY He, H **g - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum entanglement plays a key role in both understanding the fundamental aspects of
quantum physics and realizing various quantum devices for practical applications. Here we …