Imperial College London

Professor SirJohnPendry

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7606j.pendry CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Carolyn Dale +44 (0)20 7594 7579

 
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Location

 

808Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@unpublished{Galiffi:2022:rs.3.rs-992194/v1,
author = {Galiffi, E and Huidobro, P and Pendry, J},
doi = {rs.3.rs-992194/v1},
publisher = {ArXiv},
title = {An Archimedes' screw for light},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-992194/v1},
year = {2022}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - UNPB
AB - An Archimedes' Screw captures water, feeding energy into it by lifting it to a higher level. We introduce the first instance of an optical Archimedes' Screw, and demonstrate how this system is capable of capturing light, dragging it and amplifying it. We unveil new exact analytic solutions to Maxwell's Equations for a wide family of chiral space-time media, and show their potential to achieve chirally selective amplification within widely tunable parity-time-broken phases. Our work, which may be readily implemented via pump-probe experiments with circularly polarized beams, opens a new direction in the physics of time-varying media by merging the rising field of space-time metamaterials and that of chiral systems, and offers a new playground for topological and non-Hermitian photonics, with potential applications to chiral spectroscopy and sensing.
AU - Galiffi,E
AU - Huidobro,P
AU - Pendry,J
DO - rs.3.rs-992194/v1
PB - ArXiv
PY - 2022///
TI - An Archimedes' screw for light
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-992194/v1
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14460v1
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/96956
ER -