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Quantized Dynamical Pumping via Dissipation in a Mechanical Thouless Pump

arXiv, 2502.14046, 2025

Marius Jürgensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Decoherence through Ancilla Anyon Reservoirs

Phys. Rev. Lett., 134, 096503, 2025

N Myerson-Jain, TL Hughes, C Xu

Noise Immunity in Quantum Optical Systems through non-Hermitian Topology

arXiv, 2503.11620, 2025

Jamison Sloan, Sachin Vaidya, Nicholas Rivera, Marin Soljačić

Giant Nonreciprocity and Gyration through Modulation-Induced Hatano-Nelson Coupling in Integrated Photonics

Phys. Rev. Lett., 134, 153801, 2025

Oğulcan E. Örsel, Jiho Noh, Penghao Zhu, Jieun Yim, Taylor L. Hughes, Ronny Thomale, and Gaurav Bahl

Chiral Quantum Optics: Recent Developments and Future Directions

PRX Quantum, 6, 020101 , 2025

D. Suarez-Forero, Jalali Mehrabad, C. Vega, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, M. Hafezi

Symbolic Learning of Topological Bands in Photonic Crystals

arXiv, 2505.10485, 2025

Ali Ghorashi, Sachin Vaidya, Ziming Liu, Charlotte Loh, Thomas Christensen, Max Tegmark, Marin Soljačić

Transversality-Enforced Tight-Binding Model for 3D Photonic Crystals aided by Topological Quantum Chemistry

Phys. Rev. B, 111, 235206, 2025

Antonio Morales-Pérez, Chiara Devescovi, Yoonseok Hwang, Mikel García-Díez, Barry Bradlyn, Juan Luis Mañes, Maia G. Vergniory, Aitzol García-Etxarri

Stealthy-Hyperuniform Wave Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

arXiv, 2507.05253, 2025

Maria Barsukova, Zeyu Zhang, Brian Gould, Koorosh Sadri, Christian Rosiek, Søren Stobbe, Jonas Karcher, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Gradient-based Search of Quantum Phases: Discovering Unconventional Fractional Chern Insulators

arXiv, 2509.10438, 2025

André Grossi Fonseca, Eric Wang, Sachin Vaidya, Patrick J. Ledwith, Ashvin Vishwanath, Marin Soljačić

On-chip Multi-timescale Spatiotemporal Optical Synchronization

Sci. Adv., 37,11, 2025

Lida Xu, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Christopher Flower, Gregory Moille, Alessandro Restelli, Daniel Suarez-Forero, Yanne Chembo, Sunil Mittal, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi

Global and Local Topological Crystalline Markers for Rotation-Symmetric Insulators

Phys. Rev. B, 112, 094204, 2025

Saavanth Velury, Yoonseok Hwang, Taylor L. Hughes

Higher-form Entanglement Asymmetry and Topological Order

arXiv, 2510.03967, 2025

Amanda Gatto Lamas, Jacopo Gliozzi, Taylor L. Hughes

Multi-band Fractional Thouless Pumps

Phys. Rev. Lett., 135, 166601 , 2025

Marius Jürgensen, Jacob Steiner, Gil Refael, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Long-range Entanglement and Quantum Correlations in a Multi-frequency Comb System

arXiv, 2511.13604, 2025

Sahil Pontula, Debasmita Banerjee, Marin Soljacic, Yannick Salamin

Refining Heuristic Predictors of Fractional Chern Insulators using Machine Learning

arXiv, 2512.01873, 2025

Oriol Mayné i Comas, André Grossi Fonseca, Sachin Vaidya, Marin Soljačić

Chern Dartboard Superconductors

arXiv, 2512.06073, 2025

Rebecca Chan, Taylor L. Hughes

Quantized Crystalline-Electromagnetic Responses in Insulators

Phys. Rev. Lett., 135, 256602, 2025

Jamison Sloan, Sachin Vaidya, Nicholas Rivera, Marin Soljačić

Preparation of a Quantum Spin Liquid in Non-Hermitian Quantum Dimer Models and Rydberg Arrays

arXiv, 2512.19809, 2025

Shashwat Chakraborty, Taylor L. Hughes

2024

Spin-resolved Topology and Partial Axion Angles in Three-dimensional Insulators

Nature Communications, 15, 550 , 2024

Kuan-Sen Lin, Giandomenico Palumbo, Zhaopeng Guo, Yoonseok Hwang, Jeremy Blackburn, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Fahad Mahmood, Zhijun Wang, Gregory A. Fiete, Benjamin J. Wieder & Barry Bradlyn

Discrete Nonlinear Topological Photonics

Nature Physics, 20, 905–912 , 2024

Alexander Szameit, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Direct Observation of Landau Levels in Silicon Photonic Crystals

Nature Photonics, 18, 580–585, 2024

Maria Barsukova, Fabien Grisé, Zeyu Zhang, Sachin Vaidya, Jonathan Guglielmon, Michael I Weinstein, Li He, Bo Zhen, Randall McEntaffer, Mikael C Rechtsman

Observation of Topological Frequency Combs

Science, 384, 6702, 2024

Christopher J. Flower, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille, Daniel G. Suarez-Forero, Oğulcan Örsel, Gaurav Bahl, Yanne Chembo, Kartik Srinivasan,Sunil Mittal, Mohammad Hafezi

Weyl Points on Nonorientable Manifolds

Phys. Rev. Lett., 132, 266601, 2024

André Grossi Fonseca, Sachin Vaidya, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Taylor L. Hughes, and Marin Soljačić

Prevalence of Two-Dimensional Photonic Topology

Phys. Rev. Lett., 133, 056602, 2024

Ali Ghorashi, Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Marin Soljačić, Thomas Christensen

Axion Topology in Photonic Crystal Domain Walls

Nature Communications, 15, 6814 , 2024

Chiara Devescovi, Antonio Morales-Pérez, Yoonseok Hwang, Mikel García-Díez, Iñigo Robredo, Juan Luis Mañes, Barry Bradlyn, Aitzol García-Etxarri & Maia G. Vergniory

Optical Control of Topological End States via Soliton Formation in a 1D Lattice

Nanophotonics, Accepted, 2024

Christina Jörg, Marius Jürgensen, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Chiral Flat-band Optical Cavity with Atomically Thin Mirrors

Sci. Adv., 10,51, 2024

Daniel Suarez-Forero, Ruihao Ni, Supratik Sarkar, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Erik Mechtel, Valery Simonyan, Andrey Grankin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Suji Park, Houk Jang, Mohammad Hafezi, You Zhou

A Mono-Atomic Orbital-Based 1D Topological Crystalline Insulator

Phys. Rev. B, 110, 214110, 2024

Gengming Liu, Violet Workman, Jiho Noh, Yuhao Ma, Taylor L. Hughes, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Gaurav Bahl

Dynamic Control of 2D non-Hermitian Photonic Corner Skin Modes in Synthetic Dimensions

Nature Communications, 15, 10881, 2024

Xinyuan Zheng, Mahmoud Mehrabad, Jonathan Vannucci, Kevin Li, Avik Dutt, Mohammad Hafezi, Sunil Mittal, Edo Waks

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Chen Qian, Jicheng Jin, Thomas Christensen, Li He, Anthony Sigillito, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen

Polarization and Weak Topology in Chern Insulators

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Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Wladimir A. Benalcazar

2023

Topological Photonics: Fundamental Concepts, Recent Developments, and Future Directions

Phys. Rev. A, 108, 040101, 2023

Mahmoud Mehrabad, Sunil Mittal, Mohammad Hafezi

Photonic Flatband Resonances for Free-Electron Radiation

Nature, 613, 42-47, 2023

Yi Yang, Charles Roques-Carmes, Steven E. Kooi, Haoning Tang, Justin Beroz, Eric Mazur, Ido Kaminer, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić

Quantized Fractional Thouless Pumping of Solitons

Nature Physics, 19, 420-426, 2023

Marius Jürgensen, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Christina Joerg, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Topogivity: A Machine-Learned Chemical Rule for Discovering Topological Materials

Nano Letters, 23, 772–778, 2023

Andrew Ma, Yang Zhang, Thomas Christensen, Hoi Chun Po, Li Jing, Liang Fu, Marin Soljacic

Polaritonic Chern insulators in monolayer semiconductors

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Li He, Jingda Wu, Jicheng Jin, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen

Higher rank chirality and non-Hermitian skin effect in a topolectrical circuit

Nature Communications, 14, 720, 2023

Penghao Zhu, Xiao-Qi Sun, Taylor L. Hughes, Gaurav Bahl

General Duality and Magnet-Free Passive Phononic Chern Insulators

Nature Communications, 14, 916, 2023

Qicheng Zhang, Li He, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen, and A. T. Charlie Johnson

Automated Discovery and Optimization of 3D Topological Photonic Crystals

ACS Photonics, 10, 4, 861–874, 2023

Samuel Kim, Thomas Christensen, Steven G. Johnson, Marin Soljačić

Z2 Spin Hopf Insulator: Helical Hinge States and Returning Thouless Pump

Phys. Rev. B, 107, 115159, 2023

Penghao Zhu, A. Alexandradinata, Taylor L. Hughes

Observation of Floquet Chern insulators of light

arXiv, 2304.09385, 2023

Jicheng Jin, Li He, Jian Lu, Lin Chang, Chen Shang, John E. Bowers, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen

Scattering Theory of Delicate Topological Insulators

Phys. Rev. B, 107, 195110, 2023

Penghao Zhu, Jiho Noh, Yingkai Liu, and Taylor L. Hughes

Topological Field Theories of Three-Dimensional Rotation Symmetric Insulators: Coupling Curvature and Electromagnetism

Phys. Rev. B, 107, 205149, 2023

Julian May-Mann, Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Xuchen Cao, and Taylor L. Hughes

Spin-Selective Strong Light-Matter Coupling in a 2D Hole Gas-Microcavity System

Nature Photonics, 17, 912–916, 2023

Daniel G. Suarez-Forero, Deric Weston Session, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Patrick Knuppel, Stefan Faelt, Werner Wegscheider, Mohammad Hafezi

Topological Electromagnetic Waves in Dispersive and Lossy Plasma Crystals

Sci. Rep., 13, 20445, 2023

Chen Qian, Yue Jiang, Jicheng Jin, Thomas Christensen, Marin Soljačić, Alexander V. Kildishev, Bo Zhen

Topological Phases of Photonic Crystals under Crystalline Symmetries

Phys. Rev. B, 108, 085116, 2023

Sachin Vaidya, Ali Ghorashi, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Wladimir A. Benalcazar

Quantum Skin Hall Effect

Phys. Rev. B, 108, L100301 , 2023

Yuhao Ma and Taylor L. Hughes

Higher-Order Nodal Hinge States in Doped Superconducting Topological Insulator

Phys. Rev. B, 108, 094504, 2023

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Jennifer Cano, Enrico Rossi, and Taylor L. Hughes

Reentrant Delocalization Transition in One-Dimensional Photonic Quasicrystals

Phys. Rev. Research, 5, 033170, 2023

Sachin Vaidya, Christina Jörg, Kyle Linn, Megan Goh, Mikael C Rechtsman

Topological Edge Mode Tapering

ACS Photonics, 10, 10, 3502–3507, 2023

Christopher J. Flower, Sabyasachi Barik, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Nicholas J. Martin, Sunil Mittal, and Mohammad Hafezi

Quasicrystalline Weyl Points and Dense Fermi-Bragg Arcs

Phys. Rev. B, 108, L121109, 2023

André Grossi e Fonseca, Thomas Christensen, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić

Entanglement Signatures of Multipolar Higher-Order Topological Phases

Phys. Rev. B, 108, 155138, 2023

Oleg Dubinkin and Taylor L. Hughes

Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Optical Materials from Twisted Two-Dimensional Van der Waals interfaces

Nature Photonics, 18, 91–98, 2023

Bumho Kim, Jicheng Jin, Zhi Wang, Li He, Thomas Christensen, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen

Control over Cavity Exciton Polaritons in Monolayer Semiconductors

arXiv, 2311.03750, 2023

Zhi Wang, Li He, Bumho Kim, Bo Zhen

2022

Bound states at partial dislocation defects in multipole higher-order topological insulators

Nature Communications, 13, 2035, 2022

Sasha S. Yamada, Tianhe Li, Mao Lin, Christopher W. Peterson, Taylor L. Hughes, Gaurav Bahl

Observation of Quadratic (Charge-2) Weyl Point Splitting in Near-Infrared Photonic Crystals

Laser Photonics Rev., 16, 2100452, 2022

Christina Joerg, Sachin Vaidya, Jiho Noh, Alexander Cerjan, Shyam Augustine, Georg von Freymann, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Chern Number Governs Soliton Motion in Nonlinear Thouless Pumps

Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 113901, 2022

Marius Jürgensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Gigahertz topological valley Hall effect in nanoelectromechanical phononic crystals

Nature Electronics, 5, 157-163, 2022

Qicheng Zhang, Daehun Lee, Lu Zheng, Xuejian Ma, Shawn I. Meyer, Li He, Han Ye, Ze Gong, Bo Zhen, Keji Lai

Higher-order topological pumping and its observation in photonic lattices

Phys. Rev. B, 105, 195129, 2022

Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Jiho Noh, Mohan Wang, Sheng Huang, Kevin P. Chen, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Location and Topology of the Fundamental Gap in Photonic Crystals

Phys. Rev. X, 12, 021066, 2022

Thomas Christensen, Hoi Chun Po, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić

Surrogate- and invariance-boosted contrastive learning for data-scarce applications in science

Nature Communications, 13, 4223, 2022

Charlotte Loh, Thomas Christensen, Rumen Dangovski, Samuel Kim, Marin Soljačić

Floquet Quadrupole Photonic Crystals Protected by Space-Time Symmetry

Phys. Rev. Lett., 129, 063902, 2022

Jicheng Jin, Li He, Jian Lu, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen

Deep Learning for Bayesian Optimization of Scientific Problems with High-Dimensional Structure

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 09, 2022

Samuel Kim, Peter Y. Lu, Charlotte Loh, Jamie Smith, Jasper Snoek, Marin Soljačić

Extracting Wilson Loop Operators and Fractional Statistics from a Single Bulk Ground State

arXiv, 2209.14302, 2022

Ze-Pei Cian, Mohammad Hafezi, Maissam Barkeshli

Photonic quadrupole topological insulator using orbital-induced synthetic flux

Nature Communications, (in press), 2022

Julian Schulz, Jiho Noh, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Gaurav Bahl, Georg von Freymann

Non-Abelian nonsymmorphic chiral symmetries

Phys. Rev. B, 106, L161108, 2022

Yi Yang, Hoi Chun Po, Vincent Liu, John D. Joannopoulos, Liang Fu, Marin Soljačić

Period-Doubled Floquet Solitons

Optica, 10,10,1310-1315, 2022

Sebabrata Mukherjee, Mikael C. Rechtsman

2021

Trapped fractional charges at bulk defects in topological insulators

Nature, 589, 376-380, 2021

C. W. Peterson, T. Li, W. Jiang, T.L. Hughes, G. Bahl

Topological Crystalline Phases in a Disordered Inversion-Symmetric Chain

Phys. Rev. B, 103, 024205, 2021

S. Velury, B. Bradlyn, T. L. Hughes

On-chip optical non-reciprocity through a synthetic Hall effect for photons

APL Photonics, 6, 011301, 2021

S. Kim, D.B. Sohn, C.W. Peterson, G. Bahl

Floquet Topological Phases in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystals

Phys. Rev. Lett., 126, 113901, 2021

Jian Lu, Li He, Zachariah Addison, Eugene J. Mele, Bo Zhen

Skin effect and winding number in disordered non-Hermitian systems

Phys. Rev. B, 103, L140201, 2021

Jahan Claes and Taylor L. Hughes

Tunable Auantum Interference Using a Topological Source of Indistinguishable Photon Pairs

Nature Photonics, 15, 542-548, 2021

Sunil Mittal, Venkata Vikram Orre, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Mohammad Hafezi

Point-Defect-Localized Bound States in the Continuum in Photonic Crystals and Structured Fibers

Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 023605, 2021

Sachin Vaidya, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Alexander Cerjan, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Geometric Response and Disclination-Induced Skin Effects in Non-Hermitian Systems

Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 066401, 2021

Xiao-Qi Sun, Penghao Zhu, and Taylor L. Hughes

Quantized nonlinear Thouless pumping

Nature, 596, 63-67, 2021

Marius Juergensen, Sebabrata Mukherjee & Mikael C. Rechtsman

Topological photonics in 3D micro-printed systems

APL Photonics, 6, 080901, 2021

Julian Schulz, Sachin Vaidya, and Christina Joerg

Topological Frequency Combs and Nested Temporal Solitons

Nature Physics, 17, 1169-1176, 2021

Sunil Mittal, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan, Yanne K. Chembo and Mohammad Hafezi

Three-dimensional non-Abelian generalizations of the Hofstadter model: Spin-orbit-coupled butterfly trios

Phys. Rev. B, 104, 115127, 2021

Vincent Liu, Yi Yang, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić

Resonance-forbidden second-harmonic generation in nonlinear photonic crystals

Nanophotonics, 10, 4233-4239, 2021

Jicheng Jin, Jian Lu and Bo Zhen

Observation of bound states in the continuum embedded in symmetry bandgaps

Science Advances, 7, eabk1117, 2021

Alexander Cerjan, Christina Joerg, Sachin Vaidya, Shyam Augustine, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Chia Wei Hsu, Georg von Freymann, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Multi-gap topology of the Wilson loop operator in mirror symmetric insulators

arXiv, 2109.13947, 2021

Penghao Zhu, Taylor L. Hughes, Xiao-Qi Sun

Mode Delocalization in Disordered Photonic Chern Insulator

Phys. Rev. B, 103, 214201, 2021

Udvas Chattopadhyay, Sunil Mittal, Mohammad Hafezi, and Y. D. Chong

2020

A Fractional Corner Anomaly Reveals Higher-Order Topology

Science, 368, 1114-1118, 2020

C. W. Peterson, T. Li, W. A. Benalcazar, T.L. Hughes, G. Bahl

Quadrupole topological photonics crystals

Nature Communications, 11, 3119, 2020

L. He, Z. Addison, E.J. Mele, B. Zhen

Non-Abelian generalizations of the Hofstadter model: spin-orbit-coupled butterfly pairs

Light: Science & Applications, 9, 177, 2020

Yi Yang, Bo Zhen, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljacic

Observation of a Higher-Order Topological Bound State in the Continuum

Phys. Rev. Lett., 125, 213901, 2020

Alexander Cerjan, Marius Juergensen, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Mikael C. Rechtsman

Higher-Order Weyl Semimetals

Phys. Rev. Lett., 125, 266804, 2020

S. A. A. Ghorashi, T. Li, T. L. Hughes

Trapped state at a dislocation in a weak magneto-mechanical topological insulator

Phys. Rev. Applied, 14, 064042, 2020

I.H. Grinberg, M. Lin, W.A. Benalcazar, T.L. Hughes, G. Bahl