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  • Open Access
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The Design of a Circulator Based on Topological Photonic Crystals

  • Yulin Zhao,
  • Feng Liang,
  • Jianfei Han,
  • Jingsen Li,
  • Haihua Hu,
  • Weihao Zhang and
  • Xiangjun Tan

Topological photonic crystals have garnered significant attention due to their fascinating topological edge states. These states are robust against sharp bends and defects and exhibit the novel property of unidirectional transmission. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,603 Views
18 Pages

Directional Elastic Pseudospin and Nonseparability of Directional and Spatial Degrees of Freedom in Parallel Arrays of Coupled Waveguides

  • M. Arif Hasan,
  • Lazaro Calderin,
  • Trevor Lata,
  • Pierre Lucas,
  • Keith Runge and
  • Pierre A. Deymier

4 May 2020

We experimentally and numerically investigated elastic waves in parallel arrays of elastically coupled one-dimensional acoustic waveguides composed of aluminum rods coupled along their length with epoxy. The elastic waves in each waveguide take the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,296 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2023

An analytical solution is obtained for the problem of two interacting, identical but separated spin 1/2 particles in a time-dependent external magnetic field, in a general case. The solution involves isolating the pseudo-qutrit subsystem from a two-q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,838 Views
11 Pages

We propose a controllable topological add-drop filter based on magnetic–optical photonic crystals. This add-drop filter is composed of two straight waveguides and a hexagonal photonic crystal ring resonator. The waveguide and ring resonator are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,964 Views
17 Pages

Near- and Far-Field Excitation of Topological Plasmonic Metasurfaces

  • Matthew Proctor,
  • Xiaofei Xiao,
  • Richard V. Craster,
  • Stefan A. Maier,
  • Vincenzo Giannini and
  • Paloma Arroyo Huidobro

24 September 2020

The breathing honeycomb lattice hosts a topologically non-trivial bulk phase due to the crystalline-symmetry of the system. Pseudospin-dependent edge states, which emerge at the interface between trivial and non-trivial regions, can be used for the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,874 Views
11 Pages

Tailored Triggering of High-Quality Multi-Dimensional Coupled Topological States in Valley Photonic Crystals

  • Guangxu Su,
  • Jiangle He,
  • Xiaofei Ye,
  • Hengming Yao,
  • Yaxuan Li,
  • Junzheng Hu,
  • Minghui Lu,
  • Peng Zhan and
  • Fanxin Liu

The combination of higher-order topological insulators and valley photonic crystals has recently aroused extensive attentions due to the great potential in flexible and efficient optical field manipulations. Here, we computationally propose a photoni...

  • Review
  • Open Access
698 Views
19 Pages

We briefly review the early development of the mean-field dynamics for cooperatively interacting quantum many-body systems, mapped to pseudo-spin (Ising-like) systems. We start with (Anderson, 1958) pseudo-spin mapping the BCS (1957) Hamiltonian of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,196 Views
18 Pages

Landau Levels and Electronic States for Pseudospin-1 Lattices with a Bandgap: Application to a Lieb Lattice

  • Liubov Zhemchuzhna,
  • Lovely Joseph,
  • Andrii Iurov,
  • Godfrey Gumbs and
  • Danhong Huang

16 September 2025

We have carried out detailed theoretical and numerical calculations and developed a physics-based model for quantitatively describing the Landau levels of several pseudospin-1 structures with a flat band and a finite bandgap in their electronic-energ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,791 Views
13 Pages

Photonic Topological States in a Two-Dimensional Gyrotropic Photonic Crystal

  • Xiao-Chen Sun,
  • Cheng He,
  • Xiao-Ping Liu,
  • Yi Zou,
  • Ming-Hui Lu,
  • Xiao Hu and
  • Yan-Feng Chen

7 March 2019

Time-reversal symmetry (TRS) of electrons is associated with an anti-unitary operator with T 2 = − 1 , which induces Kramers degeneracy and plays an important role in realizing the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE). By contrast, TRS of p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,855 Views
15 Pages

Gamow–Teller Beta Decay and Pseudo-SU(4) Symmetry

  • Piet Van Isacker,
  • Alejandro Algora,
  • András Vitéz-Sveiczer,
  • Gábor Gyula Kiss,
  • Sonja Elena Agata Orrigo,
  • Berta Rubio and
  • Pablo Aguilera

31 October 2023

We report on recent experimental results on β decay into self-conjugate (N=Z) nuclei with mass number 58≤A≤70. Super-allowed β decays from the Jπ=0+ ground state of a Z=N+2 parent nucleus are to the isobaric analogue state through...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,498 Views
11 Pages

Since the octahedral high-spin iron(II) complex has the 5T2g ground term, the spin-orbit coupling should be considered in magnetic analysis; however, such treatment is rarely seen in recent papers, although the symmetry-sensitive property is of inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,894 Views
13 Pages

Interface Engineering Modulated Valley Polarization in MoS2/hBN Heterostructure

  • Fang Li,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • You Li,
  • Yibin Zhao,
  • Mingyan Liu,
  • Yunwei Yang,
  • Jiamin Yao,
  • Shaolong Min,
  • Erjun Kan and
  • Yi Wan

25 February 2023

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a favorable research platform for the advancement of spintronics and valleytronics because of their unique spin-valley coupling effect, which is attributed to the absence of inversion symmetry c...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,566 Views
30 Pages

Fledgling Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Pseudo Gap Phase of Bi2212

  • Udai Prakash Tyagi,
  • Kakoli Bera and
  • Partha Goswami

22 August 2022

We studied the emergence of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) states for the pseudo-gap (PG) phase of Bi2212 bilayer system, assumed to be D-density wave (DDW) ordered, starting with a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) armed, and the time reversal sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,640 Views
13 Pages

Study of Interacting Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Spin-1/2 and 1 Chains

  • Debasmita Maiti,
  • Dayasindhu Dey and
  • Manoranjan Kumar

Haldane conjectures the fundamental difference in the energy spectrum of the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic (HAF) of the spin S chain is that the half-integer and the integer S chain have gapless and gapped energy spectrums, respectively. The ground st...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,228 Views
39 Pages

Solid-State NMR Techniques for the Structural Characterization of Cyclic Aggregates Based on Borane–Phosphane Frustrated Lewis Pairs

  • Robert Knitsch,
  • Melanie Brinkkötter,
  • Thomas Wiegand,
  • Gerald Kehr,
  • Gerhard Erker,
  • Michael Ryan Hansen and
  • Hellmut Eckert

19 March 2020

Modern solid-state NMR techniques offer a wide range of opportunities for the structural characterization of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs), their aggregates, and the products of cooperative addition reactions at their two Lewis centers. This informat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,931 Views
18 Pages

Symmetry-Induced Emergence of a Pseudo-Qutrit in the Dipolar Coupling of Two Qubits

  • Yury Belousov,
  • Vladimir I. Man’ko,
  • Agostino Migliore,
  • Alessandro Sergi and
  • Antonino Messina

31 January 2022

We investigate a system of two identical and distinguishable spins 1/2, with a direct magnetic dipole–dipole interaction, in an external magnetic field. Constraining the hyperfine tensor to exhibit axial symmetry generates the notable symmetry...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,032 Views
19 Pages

We review the magneto-structural properties of electron–electron correlated quasi-one- dimensional (1D) molecular organics. These weakly localized quarter-filled metallic-like systems with pronounced spin 1/2 antiferromagnetic (AF) interactions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,965 Views
14 Pages

17 July 2018

Monolayer (1L) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are attractive materials for several optoelectronic applications because of their strong excitonic resonances and valley-selective response. Valley excitons in 1L-TMDCs are formed at opposite po...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,626 Views
22 Pages

The Tyranny of Arm-Wrestling Methyls on Iron(II) Spin State in Pseudo-Octahedral [Fe(didentate)3] Complexes

  • Neel Deorukhkar,
  • Timothée Lathion,
  • Laure Guénée,
  • Céline Besnard and
  • Claude Piguet

2 April 2020

The connection of a sterically constrained 3-methyl-pyrazine ring to a N-methyl-benzimidazole unit to give the unsymmetrical α,α’-diimine ligand L5 has been programmed for the design of pseudo-octahedral spin-crossover [Fe(L5)3]2+ u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,267 Views
9 Pages

In this semi-review paper, we show that the multiferroic properties of perovskite ABO3 crystals with B(dn), n > 0, centers are fully controlled by the influence of the electronic spin on the local dipolar instability that triggers the spontaneous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,300 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2019

The discovery of room-temperature ferromagnetism of hydrogenated epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide challenges for a fundamental understanding of this long-range phenomenon. Carbon allotropes with their dispersive electron states at the Fermi leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,082 Views
8 Pages

Effects of the Tensor Force on the Ground Properties of Zr Isotopes

  • Chao-Feng Chen,
  • Qi-Bo Chen,
  • Xian-Rong Zhou and
  • Yi-Yuan Cheng

17 November 2021

The effects of the tensor force on the ground properties of Zr isotopes are studied in the framework of the Skyrme–Hartree–Fock approach. It is found that the tensor force strongly affects the ground state energies and the geometric symmetry properti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,764 Views
10 Pages

Synthesis and Study of Fe-Doped Bi2S3 Semimagnetic Nanocrystals Embedded in a Glass Matrix

  • Ricardo S. Silva,
  • Hanna D. Mikhail,
  • Eder V. Guimarães,
  • Elis R. Gonçalves,
  • Nilo F. Cano and
  • Noelio O. Dantas

Iron-doped bismuth sulphide (Bi2−xFexS3) nanocrystals have been successfully synthesized in a glass matrix using the fusion method. Transmission electron microscopy images and energy dispersive spectroscopy data clearly show that nanocrystals are for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,793 Views
14 Pages

In a semi-review paper, we show that the hidden Jahn–Teller effect (JTE) and pseudo-JTE (PJTE) in molecular systems and solids, under certain conditions lead to the formation of two coexisting stable space configurations with different magnetic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,591 Views
36 Pages

Complex phase diagrams are a generic feature of quantum materials that display high-temperature superconductivity. In addition to d-wave superconductivity (or other unconventional states), these phase diagrams typically include various forms of charg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,117 Views
19 Pages

A Role of Coagulant in Structure Formation of Fibers and Films Spun from Cellulose Solutions

  • Valery Kulichikhin,
  • Igor Makarov,
  • Maria Mironova,
  • Lyudmila Golova,
  • Markel Vinogradov,
  • Georgiy Shandryuk,
  • Ivan Levin and
  • Natalia Arkharova

7 August 2020

Replacing the aqueous coagulation bath with an alcoholic one during spinning cellulose fibers (films) from solutions in N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide leads to a radical restructuring of the hydrogen bonds net of cellulose and, as a result, to a change i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,182 Views
12 Pages

10 October 2023

The structures of Ag complexes with dimethyl amino phenyl substituted phthalocyanine m[dmaphPcAg]q of various charges q and in the two lowest spin states m were optimized using the B3LYP method within the D4h symmetry group and its subgroups. The mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,203 Views
18 Pages

13 January 2025

We perform DFT calculations with different hybrid (ωB97X-D and M05-2X) and double hybrid (B2PLYP-D3 and ωB2PLYP) functionals to characterize the lowest energy triplet excited states of naphthalene monomer and dimers in different stacking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,626 Views
14 Pages

29 June 2021

We have investigated the α–T3 model in the presence of a mass term which opens a gap in the energy dispersive spectrum, as well as under a uniform perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. The gap opening mass term plays the role of Zeeman splitting a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,992 Views
27 Pages

In a semi-review paper, we show that the local pseudo-Jahn–Teller effect (PJTE) in transition metal B ion center of ABO3 perovskite crystals, notably BaTiO3, is the basis of all their main properties. The vibronic coupling between the ground an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,764 Views
18 Pages

Theory of Dirac Electrons in Organic Conductors

  • Yoshikazu Suzumura and
  • Akito Kobayashi

20 April 2012

The dynamical property of electrons with the tilted Dirac cone was examined using the tilted Weyl equation. The polarization function exhibits cusps and nonmonotonic structures by varying both the frequency and the momentum. A pair of tilted Dirac co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,009 Views
10 Pages

Simplicity Out of Complexity: Band Structure for W20O58 Superconductor

  • A.A. Slobodchikov,
  • I.A. Nekrasov,
  • N.S. Pavlov and
  • M.M. Korshunov

4 January 2021

The band structure, density of states, and the Fermi surface of a recently discovered superconductor, oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide WO2.9 that is equivalent to W20O58, is studied within the density functional theory (DFT) in the generalized gradien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,589 Views
12 Pages

Glassy Properties of the Lead-Free Isovalent Relaxor BaZr0.4Ti0.6O3

  • Cene Filipič,
  • Giovanna Canu,
  • Raša Pirc and
  • Zdravko Kutnjak

25 August 2023

Glassy dielectric properties were investigated in lead-free BaZr0.4Ti0.6O3 (BZT40) ceramic samples using dielectric spectroscopy in the frequency range of 0.003 Hz–1 MHz and at temperatures of 10 K < T < 300 K. Measurements of the quasist...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,438 Views
9 Pages

Terahertz Hybrid Topological Chip for 10-Gbps Full-Duplex Communications

  • Haisu Li,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Yajing Liu and
  • Shaghik Atakaramians

27 December 2022

Terahertz photonic chips play an important role in next-generation information systems, such as high-speed inter/intrachip connections. Here we report a hybrid hollow-core terahertz topological planar waveguide where topological silicon pillars (asse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,484 Views
18 Pages

Superfluidity of Dipolar Excitons in a Double Layer of αT3 with a Mass Term

  • Oleg L. Berman,
  • Godfrey Gumbs,
  • Gabriel P. Martins and
  • Paula Fekete

22 April 2022

We predict Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of dipolar excitons, formed by electron-hole pairs in spatially separated gapped hexagonal α−T3 (GHAT3) layers. In the α−T3 model, the AB-honeycomb lattice structure is s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,190 Views
16 Pages

Two-Channel Charge-Kondo Physics in Graphene Quantum Dots

  • Emma L. Minarelli,
  • Jonas B. Rigo and
  • Andrew K. Mitchell

29 April 2022

Nanoelectronic quantum dot devices exploiting the charge-Kondo paradigm have been established as versatile and accurate analogue quantum simulators of fundamental quantum impurity models. In particular, hybrid metal–semiconductor dots connected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2025

This study aims to investigate the vibrational, structural, morphological, optical, and magnetic properties of Zn1−xCoxO with 0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.05 prepared by the sol–gel method via an amorphous citrate precursor. FTIR spectroscopy was u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,817 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Arterial Spin Labeling MRI—Comparison with 15O-Water PET on an Integrated PET/MR Scanner

  • Markus Fahlström,
  • Lieuwe Appel,
  • Eva Kumlien,
  • Torsten Danfors,
  • Mathias Engström,
  • Johan Wikström,
  • Gunnar Antoni,
  • Elna-Marie Larsson and
  • Mark Lubberink

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements are of high clinical value and can be acquired non-invasively with no radiation exposure using pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (ASL). The aim of this study was to evaluate accordance in resting state CB...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,568 Views
24 Pages

Diversity of Coordination Modes in a Flexible Ditopic Ligand Containing 2-Pyridyl, Carbonyl and Hydrazone Functionalities: Mononuclear and Dinuclear Cobalt(III) Complexes, and Tetranuclear Copper(II) and Nickel(II) Clusters

  • Evangelos Pilichos,
  • Evangelos Spanakis,
  • Evangelia-Konstantina Maniaki,
  • Catherine P. Raptopoulou,
  • Vassilis Psycharis,
  • Mark M. Turnbull and
  • Spyros P. Perlepes

Syntheses, crystal structures and characterization are reported for four new complexes [Cu4Br2(L)4]Br2 (1), [Ni4(NO3)2(L)4(H2O)](NO3)2 (2), [Co2(L)3](ClO4)3 (3) and [Co(L)2](ClO4) (4), where L− is the monoanion of the ditopic ligand N′-(1...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,086 Views
15 Pages

30 July 2023

In this study, we present a theoretical study of the quantum spin Hall effect in InN/InGaN coupled multiple quantum wells with the individual well widths equal to two atomic monolayers. We consider triple and quadruple quantum wells in which the In c...