Observation of wave amplification and temporal topological state in a non-synthetic photonic time crystal
Jiang Xiong, Xudong Zhang, Longji Duan, Jiarui Wang, Yang Long, Haonan Hou, Letian Yu, Linyang Zou, Baile Zhang · 2025
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Description
Jiang Xiong and co-authors watched waves grow in a time crystal in a 2025 study. A photonic time crystal is a material whose traits pulse in time in a steady beat, rather than varying in space. Like its space kin, it opens gaps where waves of some momenta cannot run, and it can host special states at time seams.
Their test rig was a microwave line whose traits were switched in time. Inside the gap, waves grew stronger, and the power spectrum narrowed and shifted toward the gap. A seam in time let them probe the mid-gap state. The work brings time crystals from theory into bench proof.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jiang Xiong, Xudong Zhang, Longji Duan, Jiarui Wang, Yang Long, Haonan Hou, Letian Yu, Linyang Zou, Baile Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |