Flatbands from Bound States in the Continuum for Orbital Angular Momentum Localization
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| author | Zhu, Weiwei Zou, Hongyu Ge, Yong Wang, Yin Cheng, Zheyu Wang, Bing-bing Yuan, Shou-qi Sun, Hong-xiang Xue, Haoran Zhang, Baile |
| author_facet | Zhu, Weiwei Zou, Hongyu Ge, Yong Wang, Yin Cheng, Zheyu Wang, Bing-bing Yuan, Shou-qi Sun, Hong-xiang Xue, Haoran Zhang, Baile |
| contents | A flatband material is a system characterized by energy bands with zero dispersion, allowing for the compact localization of wavefunctions in real space. This compact localization significantly enhances inter-particle correlations and light-matter interactions, leading to notable advancements such as fractional Chern insulators in condensed matter systems and flat-band lasers in photonics. Previous flatband platforms, including twisted bilayer graphene and artificial kagome/Lieb lattices, typically focused on nondegenerate flatbands, lacking access to the high degeneracy that can facilitate the localization of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Here, we propose a general framework to construct highly degenerate flatbands from bound states in the continuum (BICs)--a concept originating from quantum theory but significantly developed in photonics and acoustics in recent years. The degeneracy of flatbands is determined by the number of BICs within each unit cell in a lattice. We experimentally validate this approach in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) acoustic crystals, demonstrating flatbands with 4-fold and 12-fold degeneracies, respectively. The high degeneracy provides sufficient internal degrees of freedom, enabling the selective excitation of localized OAM at any position in any direction. Our results pave the way for exploring BIC-constructed flatbands and their localization properties. |
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| spellingShingle | Flatbands from Bound States in the Continuum for Orbital Angular Momentum Localization Zhu, Weiwei Zou, Hongyu Ge, Yong Wang, Yin Cheng, Zheyu Wang, Bing-bing Yuan, Shou-qi Sun, Hong-xiang Xue, Haoran Zhang, Baile Optics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics A flatband material is a system characterized by energy bands with zero dispersion, allowing for the compact localization of wavefunctions in real space. This compact localization significantly enhances inter-particle correlations and light-matter interactions, leading to notable advancements such as fractional Chern insulators in condensed matter systems and flat-band lasers in photonics. Previous flatband platforms, including twisted bilayer graphene and artificial kagome/Lieb lattices, typically focused on nondegenerate flatbands, lacking access to the high degeneracy that can facilitate the localization of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Here, we propose a general framework to construct highly degenerate flatbands from bound states in the continuum (BICs)--a concept originating from quantum theory but significantly developed in photonics and acoustics in recent years. The degeneracy of flatbands is determined by the number of BICs within each unit cell in a lattice. We experimentally validate this approach in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) acoustic crystals, demonstrating flatbands with 4-fold and 12-fold degeneracies, respectively. The high degeneracy provides sufficient internal degrees of freedom, enabling the selective excitation of localized OAM at any position in any direction. Our results pave the way for exploring BIC-constructed flatbands and their localization properties. |
| title | Flatbands from Bound States in the Continuum for Orbital Angular Momentum Localization |
| topic | Optics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04040 |