Optical Materials Express Feature Announcement
Floquet-Engineered Materials and Systems
Submission Opens: 1 September 2024
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2024
Floquet-engineered systems have shown that electronic, magnetic, and other subsystems, when driven, give rise to novel optical properties unachievable near equilibrium. This concept can be explored by viewing non-equilibrium electronic structures as being “dressed” by driving fields (internal/external), including synthetic gauge fields, that enable control of a variety of electromagnetic properties of both natural and synthetic materials, across the electromagnetic spectrum. This feature issue will focus on Floquet-engineered and non-Hermitian systems, especially in photonic systems, where new classes of modes are induced by modulated interactions, non-Hermiticity, and light-matter coupling, all of which can also be tuned, providing an active photonic and polaritonic Floquet-materials platform. Contributions that focus on photonic band structure engineering by time-modulated stimuli, including quantum regimes, and leading to new classes of emergent topological states unique to photonics systems are welcome, as are those that report on new fundamental phenomena, device applications, growth and fabrication techniques, experimental characterization, and theoretical modelling.
Topics to be covered include but are not limited to:
- Methods for spatiotemporal control including external pertubations/driving fields both electric and magnetic, and intrinsic means such as heterostructuring and coupling
- Nonlinear photonics and phononics in the strong light-matter coupled regimes
- Tuning and control of metastable states
- Direct hopping modulation and Floquet engineering
- Topological effects, including interaction-induced
- Valley control and Berry phase modulation
- Exciton and exciton-polariton condensates
- New and emergent phases in Floquet engineered matter
- Material systems including metallicity at the nanoscale and/or under driving fields, correlated oxides, Weyl semimetals, etc.
- Photonic/phononic controls of quantum and 2D materials
- Wave Phenomena in time or spacetime photonic crystals
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual guidelines for submission to Optical Materials Express and must be submitted online through the Prism submission system. When submitting, authors should specify that the manuscript is for the "Floquet Engineered Materials and Systems" feature issue (choose from the drop-down menu).
Feature Issue Guest Editors:
Jeffery Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA (Lead Editor)
Monica Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Alexander Khanikaev, City College of New York, USA
Mário G. Silveirinha, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Daria Smirnova, Australian National University, Australia