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    Four-band non-Abelian topological insulator and its experimental realization

    Very recently, increasing attention has been focused on non-Abelian topological charges, e.g., the quaternion group Q8. Different from Abelian topological band insulators, these systems involve multiple entangled...

    Tianshu Jiang, Qinghua Guo, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Zhao-Qing Zhang in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Experimental observation of non-Abelian topological charges and edge states

    In the last few decades, topological phase111 has emerged as a new classification of matter states beyond the Ginzburg–Landau symmetry-breaking paradigm. The underlying global invariant is usually well character...

    Qinghua Guo, Tianshu Jiang, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Biao Yang in Nature (2021)

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    Metamaterials with index ellipsoids at arbitrary k-points

    Propagation behaviors of electromagnetic waves are governed by the equifrequency surface of the medium. Up to now, ordinary materials, including the medium exist in nature and the man-made metamaterials, alway...

    Wen-Jie Chen, Bo Hou, Zhao-Qing Zhang, John B. Pendry, C. T. Chan in Nature Communications (2018)

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    A band of bound states in the continuum induced by disorder

    Bound states in the continuum usually refer to the phenomenon of a single or a few discrete bound states embedded in a continuous spectrum of extended states. Here we propose a simple mechanism to achieve a ba...

    Yi-**n **ao, Zhao-Qing Zhang, C. T. Chan in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Anomalous Light Scattering by Topological PT-symmetric Particle Arrays

    Robust topological edge modes may evolve into complex-frequency modes when a physical system becomes non-Hermitian. We show that, while having negligible forward optical extinction cross section, a conjugate p...

    C. W. Ling, Ka Hei Choi, T. C. Mok, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Kin Hung Fung in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Symmetry-protected transport in a pseudospin-polarized waveguide

    If a system possesses a spin or pseudospin, which is locked to the linear momentum, spin-polarized states can exhibit backscattering-immune transport if the scatterer does not flip the spin. Good examples of s...

    Wen-Jie Chen, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Jian-Wen Dong, C. T. Chan in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Density of States and Its Local Fluctuations Determined by Capacitance of Strongly Disordered Graphene

    We demonstrate that fluctuations of the local density of states (LDOS) in strongly disordered graphene play an important role in determining the quantum capacitance of the top-gate graphene devices. Depending ...

    Wei Li, **aolong Chen, Lin Wang, Yuheng He, Zefei Wu, Yuan Cai in Scientific Reports (2013)