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2 Citations
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At physiological or saturating ATP concentrations, some families of kinesin motors, such as kinesin-1 and kinesin-2, exhibit a predominant two-heads-bound (2HB) state during their stepping cycle on microtubules, while others, such as kinesin-3, exhib...

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1 Citations
2,737 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2020

We show that in a relativistically covariant formulation of the two-body problem, the bound state spectrum is in agreement, up to relativistic corrections, with the non-relativistic bound-state spectrum. This solution is achieved by solving the probl...

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4 Citations
2,425 Views
13 Pages

Multiple Bound State Soliton Pulses in the All Polarization Maintaining Fiber Laser

  • Dalin Sun,
  • Qi Zhao,
  • Shaowen Chu,
  • Chunyu Cao,
  • Jihong Pei,
  • Xintong Xu and
  • Shuangchen Ruan

29 July 2023

The bound state soliton pulse, a novel mode-locked output state of fiber lasers, has been studied extensively to gain a better understanding of soliton interactions and to explain the mechanism behind the generation of mode-locked pulses. In this par...

  • Communication
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3,820 Views
7 Pages

30 December 2022

A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a localized state in a continuous spectrum of radiating waves. In this study, the coupled-mode theory is introduced to more precisely interpret a symmetry-protected BIC and the quasi-BIC in a facile trimeric me...

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1,490 Views
11 Pages

A Kuramoto Model for the Bound State Aharonov–Bohm Effect

  • Alviu Rey Nasir,
  • José Luís Da Silva,
  • Jingle Magallanes,
  • Herry Pribawanto Suryawan and
  • Roshin Marielle Nasir-Britos

27 November 2024

The Aharonov–Bohm effect can be described as a phase difference in interfering charged particles that travel through two distinct pathways oppositely surrounding a perpendicularly-positioned solenoid. The magnetic field emanates from the soleno...

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18 Citations
4,419 Views
15 Pages

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Flavor Instability of Beer (Part 1): Influence of Release of Bound State Aldehydes

  • Florian Lehnhardt,
  • Arndt Nobis,
  • Andreas Skornia,
  • Thomas Becker and
  • Martina Gastl

13 October 2021

Flavor instability of pale lager beer depends decisively on aroma-active aldehydes from the Maillard reaction, Strecker degradation, and lipid oxidation, which are formed in various oxidative and non-oxidative reactions. Therein, aldehydes can be for...

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10 Citations
3,337 Views
12 Pages

Plasmonic sensors have attracted intensive attention due to their high sensitivity. However, due to intrinsic metallic loss, plasmonic sensors usually have a large full width at half maximum (FWHM) that limits the wavelength resolution. In this paper...

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1 Citations
1,984 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2023

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) garnered significant research interest in the field of sensors due to their exceptionally high-quality factors. However, the wide-band continuum in BICs are noise to the bound states, and it is difficult to contro...

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82 Citations
6,285 Views
13 Pages

Highly Efficient Light Absorption of Monolayer Graphene by Quasi-Bound State in the Continuum

  • Tian Sang,
  • Sina Abedini Dereshgi,
  • Wisnu Hadibrata,
  • Ibrahim Tanriover and
  • Koray Aydin

14 February 2021

Graphene is an ideal ultrathin material for various optoelectronic devices, but poor light–graphene interaction limits its further applications particularly in the visible (Vis) to near-infrared (NIR) region. Despite tremendous efforts to improve lig...

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8 Citations
4,298 Views
11 Pages

We numerically demonstrated a high-efficiency second-harmonic generation (SHG) using quasi-bound state in the continuum (quasi–BIC) in thin film LiNbO3 (TFLN) metasurface. The TFLN possessed exceptionally high second-order nonlinear coefficient...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,169 Views
9 Pages

5 February 2022

We demonstrate a thulium-doped, mode-locked, all-fiber laser capable of operating in two generation regimes: dispersion-managed soliton and noise-like pulse (NLP). Employing a nonlinear optical loop mirror as an artificial saturable absorber, the osc...

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7 Citations
3,931 Views
26 Pages

28 December 2022

We study the effective interactions and the mass action constants for pair and triple associations in classical and quantum plasmas. Avoiding double counting, we derive new expressions for the mass action constants. The calculations resulted in value...

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2 Citations
3,802 Views
11 Pages

Helstrom Bound for Squeezed Coherent States in Binary Communication

  • Evaldo M. F. Curado,
  • Sofiane Faci,
  • Jean-Pierre Gazeau and
  • Diego Noguera

31 January 2022

In quantum information processing, using a receiver device to differentiate between two non-orthogonal states leads to a quantum error probability. The minimum possible error is known as the Helstrom bound. In this work, we study the conditions for s...

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2 Citations
2,308 Views
12 Pages

Bound States for the Spin-1/2 Aharonov-Bohm Problem in a Rotating Frame

  • Daniel F. Lima,
  • Márcio M. Cunha,
  • Luís Fernando C. Pereira and
  • Edilberto O. Silva

23 November 2021

In this paper, we study the effects of rotation in the spin-1/2 non-relativistic Aharonov-Bohm problem for bound states. We use a technique based on the self-adjoint extension method and determine an expression for the energies of the bound states. T...

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1 Citations
2,124 Views
7 Pages

6 February 2023

There exists the following paradigm: for interaction potentials U(r) that are negative and go to zero as r goes to infinity, bound states may exist only for the negative total energy E. For E > 0 and for E = 0, bound states are considered to be im...

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6 Citations
3,328 Views
15 Pages

Phonon-Assisted Tunneling through Quantum Dot Systems Connected to Majorana Bound States

  • Levente Máthé,
  • Zoltán Kovács-Krausz,
  • Ioan Botiz,
  • Ioan Grosu,
  • Khadija El Anouz,
  • Abderrahim El Allati and
  • Liviu P. Zârbo

11 May 2023

We theoretically analyze phonon-assisted tunneling transport in a quantum dot side connected to a Majorana bound state in a topological superconducting nanowire. We investigate the behavior of the current through the dot, for a range of experimentall...

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6 Citations
4,656 Views
15 Pages

24 January 2022

Dicyano-functionalized benzene and naphthalene anion derivatives exhibit a relatively rich population of electronically excited states in stark contrast to many assumptions regarding the photophysics of anions in general. The present work has quantum...

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12 Citations
3,950 Views
14 Pages

A Bifunctional Silicon Dielectric Metasurface Based on Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum

  • Jianan Wang,
  • Weici Liu,
  • Zhongchao Wei,
  • Hongyun Meng,
  • Hongzhan Liu,
  • Jianping Guo,
  • Manxing Yang,
  • Yongkang Song,
  • Liujing Xiang and
  • Faqiang Wang
  • + 2 authors

11 September 2021

Quasi-bound states in the continuum provide an effective and observable way to improve metasurface performance, usually with an ultra-high-quality factor. Dielectric metasurfaces dependent on Mie resonances have the characteristic of significantly lo...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,443 Views
11 Pages

19 August 2022

The experimental realization of twisted bilayer graphene strongly pushed the inspection of bilayer systems. In this context, it was recently shown that a two layer Haldane model with a thirty degree rotation angle between the layers represents a high...

  • Review
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23 Citations
7,810 Views
20 Pages

Photonic Bound States in the Continuum in Nanostructures

  • Hongkun Zhong,
  • Tiantian He,
  • Yuan Meng and
  • Qirong Xiao

10 November 2023

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have garnered considerable attention recently for their unique capacity to confine electromagnetic waves within an open or non-Hermitian system. Utilizing a variety of light confinement mechanisms, nanostructures c...

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251 Views
22 Pages

21 January 2026

The giant atom paradigm, where a single quantum emitter couples to a continuum at multiple discrete points, has enabled unprecedented control over light-matter interactions, including decoherence-free subspaces and chiral emission. However, realizing...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,199 Views
18 Pages

Label-Free Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Biosensors

  • Man Luo,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Xuyang Zhao,
  • Yuxiang Li,
  • Zhihe Guo,
  • Xi Yang,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • You Wang and
  • Xiang Wu

2 December 2022

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted considerable attentions for biological and chemical sensing due to their infinite quality (Q)-factors in theory. Such high-Q devices with enhanced light-matter interaction ability are very sensitive...

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9 Citations
9,013 Views
35 Pages

Topological Defects in Topological Insulators and Bound States at Topological Superconductor Vortices

  • Vincenzo Parente,
  • Gabriele Campagnano,
  • Domenico Giuliano,
  • Arturo Tagliacozzo and
  • Francisco Guinea

4 March 2014

The scattering of Dirac electrons by topological defects could be one of the most relevant sources of resistance in graphene and at the boundary surfaces of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI). In the long wavelength, continuous limit o...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,645 Views
18 Pages

The Study of Soliton Mode-Locked and Bound States in Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers Based on Cr2S3 Saturable Absorbers

  • Dong Li,
  • Ruizhan Zhai,
  • Yongjing Wu,
  • Minzhe Liu,
  • Kun Zhao,
  • Qi Yang,
  • Youwei Dong,
  • Xiaoying Li,
  • Xiaoyang Wu and
  • Zhongqing Jia

16 February 2025

Femtosecond fiber lasers are widely utilized across various fields and also serve as an ideal platform for studying soliton dynamics. Bound-state solitons, as a significant soliton dynamic phenomenon, attract widespread attention and research interes...

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3 Citations
4,180 Views
8 Pages

The Application of the Cut-Off Coulomb Model Potential for the Calculation of Bound-Bound State Transitions

  • Nenad M. Sakan,
  • Vladimir A. Srećković,
  • Zoran J. Simić and
  • Milan S. Dimitrijević

12 January 2018

In this contribution, we present results of bound state transition modeling using the cut-off Coulomb model potential. The cut-off Coulomb potential has proven itself as a model potential for the dense hydrogen plasma. The main aim of our investigati...

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2 Citations
4,087 Views
8 Pages

20 November 2022

There is a recent surge of interest to the bound states in the continuum (BICs) due to their ability to provide high-quality resonances in open photonic systems. They are usually observed in perturbed systems possessing Fano resonances in their spect...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,064 Views
10 Pages

This paper describes a compact refractometer in visible with optical bounds states in the continuum (BICs) using silicon nitride (Si3N4) based sub-wavelength medium contrast gratings (MCGs). The proposed device is highly sensitive to different polari...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,952 Views
13 Pages

6 March 2023

The appearance of all-dielectric micro–nano photonic devices constructed from high refractive index dielectric materials offers a low-loss platform for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves. The manipulation of electromagnetic waves by all-...

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106 Citations
7,951 Views
11 Pages

Optical Biosensors Based on Photonic Crystals Supporting Bound States in the Continuum

  • Silvia Romano,
  • Annalisa Lamberti,
  • Mariorosario Masullo,
  • Erika Penzo,
  • Stefano Cabrini,
  • Ivo Rendina and
  • Vito Mocella

30 March 2018

A novel optical label-free bio-sensing platform based on a new class of resonances supported in a photonic crystal metasurface is reported herein. Molecular binding is detected as a shift in the resonant wavelength of the bound states in the continuu...

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53 Citations
6,689 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2020

In this paper, a tunable terahertz dielectric metasurfaces consisting of split gap bars in the unit cell is proposed and theoretically demonstrated, where the sharp high-quality Fano resonance can be achieved through excitation of quasi-bound states...

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Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in PDMS-Supported Silicon Metasurfaces

  • Sy Khiem Nguyen,
  • Ba Thong Trinh,
  • Dayeon Kim,
  • Netrapal Singh,
  • Young Kyu Hwang,
  • Vu Dinh Lam and
  • Ilsun Yoon

26 February 2026

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) in all-dielectric metasurfaces support high-Q resonances that are highly sensitive to structural symmetry and radiative coupling. Most previous studies have focused on static configurations on rigid su...

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2 Citations
1,958 Views
7 Pages

Asymmetric Orthogonal Metasurfaces Governed by Toroidal Dipole Bound States in the Continuum

  • Jun Ji,
  • Xiaolong Lv,
  • Chuanfei Li,
  • Xiaoyuan Yang and
  • Yunsheng Guo

26 October 2023

An all-dielectric metasurface composed of orthogonal-slit silicon disks is proposed in this study. By modifying the unit structure of the metasurface with the bound states in the continuum (BICs), a sharp Fano resonance can be generated. The resonanc...

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  • Open Access
1,208 Views
10 Pages

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), characterized by high-Q modes, have demonstrated exceptional capabilities for enhancing light-matter interactions and, when combined with gain media, can enable compact lasers with low threshold power. However, c...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
436 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2025

High-sensitivity microwave sensing plays a vital role in material characterization and nondestructive testing, with its performance being largely determined by the quality factor (Q factor) of the sensing structure. In this work, a high-Q microwave m...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,290 Views
11 Pages

As a kind of partially saturated soil often containing dissolved gas with a high degree of saturation (S > 85%), gassy sand sediment widely exists in the marine environment all over the world. Due to the effect of gas dissolution and exsolution on...

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8 Citations
3,379 Views
11 Pages

Ultrahigh Q-Guided Resonance Sensor Empowered by Near Merging Bound States in the Continuum

  • Zhiran Liu,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Zhihe Guo,
  • Xuyang Zhao,
  • Man Luo,
  • Yuxiang Li and
  • Xiang Wu

11 November 2022

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted a lot of interest in the field of nanophotonics, and provide an important physical mechanism to realize high quality (Q) factor resonance. However, in practice, manufacturing error will greatly affe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,200 Views
10 Pages

High-Q Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in Terahertz All-Silicon Metasurfaces

  • Ruiqing Jiao,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Fangzhou Shu,
  • Guiming Pan,
  • Xufeng Jing and
  • Zhi Hong

23 September 2023

Bound states in the continuum (BIC)-based all-silicon metasurfaces have attracted widespread attention in recent years because of their high quality (Q) factors in terahertz (THz) frequencies. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an all-si...

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8 Citations
3,356 Views
15 Pages

Asymmetric Cross Metasurfaces with Multiple Resonances Governed by Bound States in the Continuum

  • Hongjie Fan,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yuhang Sun,
  • Xueyu Wang,
  • Tiesheng Wu and
  • Yumin Liu

10 March 2023

The bound state in the continuum (BIC) has paved a new way to achieve excellent localization of the resonant mode coexisting with a continuous spectrum in the metasurface. Here, we propose an all-dielectric metasurface consisting of periodic pairs of...

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426 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2025

We present an investigation into the band structure of acoustic waves in surface phononic crystals (SPnC), which comprise a square lattice of shallow cylinders on a mechanically isotropic semi-infinite substrate, utilizing the finite element method (...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,120 Views
14 Pages

25 May 2023

The enhancement of the Goos–Hänchen (GH) shift has become a research hotspot due to its promoted application of the GH effect in various fields. However, currently, the maximum GH shift is located at the reflectance dip, making it difficul...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,289 Views
12 Pages

13 April 2021

Resonant optical modes arising in all-dielectric metasurfaces have attracted much attention in recent years, especially when so-called bound states in the continuum (BICs) with diverging lifetimes are supported. With the aim of studying theoretically...

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41 Citations
5,977 Views
12 Pages

27 January 2023

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BIC) in all-dielectric metasurfaces provide a crucial platform for sensing due to its ability to enhance strong matter interactions between light-waves and analytes. In this study, a novel high-sensitivity a...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,351 Views
10 Pages

30 June 2022

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) supported in all-dielectric metasurfaces (MTS) are known for their confinement in real space and the notably high values of the quality factor Q. Recently, the properties of quasi-BICs have been employ...

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12 Citations
4,283 Views
15 Pages

28 July 2022

Bound state in the continuum (BIC) as a novel non-radiating state of light in the continuum of propagating modes has received great attention in photonics. Recently, chiral BICs have been introduced in the terahertz regime. However, strong chiroptica...

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2 Citations
1,887 Views
11 Pages

16 March 2025

Recently, the merging of accidental bound states in the continuum (BICs) has attracted significant attention due to the enhanced light–matter interactions. Here, we theoretically demonstrate the merging of accidental BICs in perturbed all-silic...

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1 Citations
1,804 Views
12 Pages

20 August 2024

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), which are characterized by their high-quality factor, have become a focal point in modern optical research. This study investigates BICs within a periodic array of dielectric resonators, specifically composed of...

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26 Citations
4,591 Views
10 Pages

9 September 2021

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted much attention due to their infinite Q factor. However, the realization of the analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) by near-field coupling with a dark BIC in metasurfaces remai...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,005 Views
11 Pages

Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulation Device without an Overlay Layer Based on Bound States in the Continuum

  • Guangyuan Chen,
  • Ning Xue,
  • Zhimei Qi,
  • Weichao Ma,
  • Wangzhe Li,
  • Zhenhu Jin and
  • Jiamin Chen

12 April 2024

Electro-optic modulation devices are essential components in the field of integrated optical chips. High-speed, low-loss electro-optic modulation devices represent a key focus for future developments in integrated optical chip technology, and they ha...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,676 Views
9 Pages

10 November 2022

In this paper, we combine the dielectric metasurface with monolayer graphene to realize a high quality(Q)-factor quasi-BIC-based optical modulator, and the corresponding modulation performances are investigated by using the finite-difference time-dom...

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