Topological optical achirality
Through the Poincar\'e--Hopf theorem and Lorentz reciprocity, the authors prove that for arbitrary reciprocal single-mode structures, there must exist incident directions for which they are optically achiral.
Authors
- Zhichang Qi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3812-0395)
- Jianfa Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5879-5633)
- Chunchao Wen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7377-9367)
- Wei Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7067-6239)
- Zhihong Zhu
- Chaofan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0504-5999)
- Shiqiao Qin
Institutions
- National University of Defense Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. A/Physical review, A
- Published
- 2025-11-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/hvd8-54nc
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Differential Geometry Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00