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Marin Soljačić
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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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 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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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 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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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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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 ...
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Open AccessLaser-Induced Linear-Field Particle Acceleration in Free Space
Linear-field particle acceleration in free space (which is distinct from geometries like the linac that requires components in the vicinity of the particle) has been studied for over 20 years, and its ability ...
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Open AccessTopological magnetoplasmon
Classical wave fields are real-valued, ensuring the wave states at opposite frequencies and momenta to be inherently identical. Such a particle–hole symmetry can open up new possibilities for topological pheno...
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Open AccessControlling Directionality and Dimensionality of Radiation by Perturbing Separable Bound States in the Continuum
A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an unusual localized state that is embedded in a continuum of extended states. Here, we present the general condition for BICs to arise from wave equation separability. ...
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Open AccessFormation mechanism of guided resonances and bound states in the continuum in photonic crystal slabs
We develop a formalism, based on the mode expansion method, to describe the guided resonances and bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic crystal slabs with one-dimensional periodicity. This approach ...
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Open AccessEfficient plasmonic emission by the quantum Čerenkov effect from hot carriers in graphene
Graphene plasmons have been found to be an exciting plasmonic platform, thanks to their high field confinement and low phase velocity, motivating contemporary research to revisit established concepts in light–...
