Yuri S. Kivshar

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of boundaries on Anderson localization of light in truncated two-dimensional photonic lattices in a nonlinear medium was studied numerically, and it was shown that the level of suppression depends on the location in the lattice (edge vs corner), as well as the strength of disorder.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optical activity in twisted dimers, the meta-atoms of a chiral metamaterial, was analyzed by introducing a simple yet accurate model for the coupling between them.

TL;DR: This work directly observe nanoscale topology-empowered edge and corner localizations of light and enhancement of light-matter interactions via a nonlinear imaging technique, which may facilitate miniaturization and on-chip integration of classical and quantum photonic devices.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the results on the Anderson localization of light and electron waves in complex disordered systems, including left-handed metamaterials, magneto-active optical structures, graphene superlattices, and nonlinear dielectric media, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the dispersion characteristics of strained graphene using many-body interatomic potentials and find: (i) borders of the structural stability of a flat graphene in the three-dimensional space of the strain components (exx, eeyy, ey, exy); (ii) sound velocities of strained graphene; and (iii) phonon density of states (DOS) of stretched graphene.