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Open AccessTopological electromagnetic waves in dispersive and lossy plasma crystals
Topological photonic crystals, which offer topologically protected and back-scattering-immune transport channels, have recently gained significant attention for both scientific and practical reasons. Although ...
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Open AccessDiscovering conservation laws using optimal transport and manifold learning
Conservation laws are key theoretical and practical tools for understanding, characterizing, and modeling nonlinear dynamical systems. However, for many complex systems, the corresponding conserved quantities ...
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Photonic flatband resonances for free-electron radiation
Flatbands have become a cornerstone of contemporary condensed-matter physics and photonics. In electronics, flatbands entail comparable energy bandwidth and Coulomb interaction, leading to correlated phenomena...
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Open AccessDiscovering sparse interpretable dynamics from partial observations
Identifying the governing equations of a nonlinear dynamical system is key to both understanding the physical features of the system and constructing an accurate model of the dynamics that generalizes well bey...
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Open AccessSurrogate- and invariance-boosted contrastive learning for data-scarce applications in science
Deep learning techniques have been increasingly applied to the natural sciences, e.g., for property prediction and optimization or material discovery. A fundamental ingredient of such approaches is the vast qu...
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Controlling two-photon emission from superluminal and accelerating index perturbations
Sources of photons with controllable quantum properties such as entanglement and squeezing are desired for applications in quantum information, metrology and sensing. However, fine-grained control over these p...
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Open AccessA Brewster route to Cherenkov detectors
Cherenkov detectors enable a valuable tool to identify high-energy particles. However, their sensitivity and momentum coverage are limited by the refractive index of host materials. Especially, identifying par...
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Open AccessQuantum surface-response of metals revealed by acoustic graphene plasmons
A quantitative understanding of the electromagnetic response of materials is essential for the precise engineering of maximal, versatile, and controllable light–matter interactions. Material surfaces, in parti...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Non-Abelian generalizations of the Hofstadter model: spin–orbit-coupled butterfly pairs
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-021-00519-4
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Open AccessControl of quantum electrodynamical processes by sha** electron wavepackets
Fundamental quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes, such as spontaneous emission and electron-photon scattering, encompass phenomena that underlie much of modern science and technology. Conventionally, calcu...
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Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics
Artificial intelligence tasks across numerous applications require accelerators for fast and low-power execution. Optical computing systems may be able to meet these domain-specific needs but, despite half a c...
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Open AccessNon-Abelian generalizations of the Hofstadter model: spin–orbit-coupled butterfly pairs
The Hofstadter model, well known for its fractal butterfly spectrum, describes two-dimensional electrons under a perpendicular magnetic field, which gives rise to the integer quantum Hall effect. Inspired by t...
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Observation of topologically enabled unidirectional guided resonances
Unidirectional radiation is important for various optoelectronic applications, such as lasers, grating couplers and optical antennas. However, almost all existing unidirectional emitters rely on the use of mat...
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Open AccessPlasmon–emitter interactions at the nanoscale
Plasmon–emitter interactions are of central importance in modern nanoplasmonics and are generally maximal at short emitter–surface separations. However, when the separation falls below 10–20 nm, the classical ...
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Open AccessHeuristic recurrent algorithms for photonic Ising machines
The inability of conventional electronic architectures to efficiently solve large combinatorial problems motivates the development of novel computational hardware. There has been much effort toward develo** ...
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Light emission based on nanophotonic vacuum forces
The vanishingly small response of matter to light above ultraviolet frequencies makes the manipulation of light emission at such frequencies challenging. As a result, state-of-the-art sources of high-frequency...
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A general theoretical and experimental framework for nanoscale electromagnetism
The macroscopic electromagnetic boundary conditions, which have been established for over a century1, are essential for the understanding of photonics at macroscopic length scales. Even state-of-the-art nanoplasm...
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Topologically enabled ultrahigh-Q guided resonances robust to out-of-plane scattering
Because of their ability to confine light, optical resonators1–3 are of great importance to science and technology, but their performance is often limited by out-of-plane-scattering losses caused by inevitable fa...
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Open AccessTowards integrated tunable all-silicon free-electron light sources
Extracting light from silicon is a longstanding challenge in modern engineering and physics. While silicon has underpinned the past 70 years of electronics advancement, a facile tunable and efficient silicon-b...
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Open AccessPassive directional sub-ambient daytime radiative cooling
Demonstrations of passive daytime radiative cooling have primarily relied on complex and costly spectrally selective nanophotonic structures with high emissivity in the transparent atmospheric spectral window ...