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Zhigang Chen

Zhigang Chen

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Physics

D-Index
73
Citations
18359
World Ranking
3533
National Ranking
66

Overview

Zhigang Chen is a researcher affiliated with Nankai University in China. Their work primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a notable focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover several specialized areas, including:

  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics

Zhigang Chen has contributed to numerous publications. Their frequently chosen venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Laser & Photonics Review
  • Optics Express
  • Physical Review Letters

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Zhigang Chen include:

  • Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade, 2021, eLight
  • Photonic flat-band lattices and unconventional light localization, 2020, Nanophotonics
  • Direct Observation of Flatband Loop States Arising from Nontrivial Real-Space Topology, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Sub-symmetry-protected topological states, 2023, Nature Physics
  • Realization of photonic p-orbital higher-order topological insulators, 2023, eLight

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, including Daohong Song, Shiqi Xia, Liqin Tang, Jingjun Xu, and Hrvoje Buljan. These collaborations reflect a consistent and active engagement in the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Trapping and guiding microparticles with morphing autofocusing Airy beams

    Peng Zhang;Jai Prakash;Ze Zhang;Matthew S. Mills

  • Self-Trapping of Partially Spatially Incoherent Light

    Matthew Mitchell;Zhigang Chen;Ming-feng Shih;Mordechai Segev

  • Observation of discrete vortex solitons in optically induced photonic lattices

    Dragomir N. Neshev;Tristram J. Alexander;Elena A. Ostrovskaya;Yuri S. Kivshar

  • Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

    Zhigang Chen;Mordechai Segev;Demetrios N Christodoulides

  • Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams.

    Peng Zhang;Yi Hu;Yi Hu;Tongcang Li;Drake Cannan

  • Airy beams and accelerating waves: an overview of recent advances

    Nikolaos K. Efremidis;Zhigang Chen;Mordechai Segev;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Observation of unconventional edge states in ‘photonic graphene’

    Yonatan Plotnik;Mikael C. Rechtsman;Daohong Song;Matthias Heinrich

  • Discrete solitons and soliton-induced dislocations in partially coherent photonic lattices.

    Hector Martin;Eugenia D. Eugenieva;Zhigang Chen;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Observation of novel edge states in photonic graphene

    Mikael C. Rechtsman;Yonatan Plotnik;Daohong Song;Matthias Heinrich

  • Topological creation and destruction of edge states in photonic graphene.

    Mikael C. Rechtsman;Yonatan Plotnik;Julia M. Zeuner;Daohong Song

  • Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

    Zhigang Chen;Zhigang Chen;Mordechai Segev

  • Observation of optical Shockley-like surface states in photonic superlattices.

    Natalia Malkova;Ivan Hromada;Xiaosheng Wang;Garnett Bryant

  • Plasmonic Airy beams with dynamically controlled trajectories

    Peng Zhang;Sheng Wang;Yongmin Liu;Xiaobo Yin

  • Coupled photorefractive spatial-soliton pairs

    Zhigang Chen;Mordechai Segev;Tamer H. Coskun;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Observation of incoherently coupled photorefractive spatial soliton pairs

    Zhigang Chen;Mordechai Segev;Tamer H. Coskun;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Self-trapping of dark incoherent light beams

    Zhigang Chen;Matthew Mitchell;Matthew Mitchell;Mordechai Segev;Mordechai Segev;Tamer H. Coskun;Tamer H. Coskun

  • Nonlinear tuning of PT symmetry and non-Hermitian topological states

    Shiqi Xia;Dimitrios Kaltsas;Daohong Song;Ioannis Komis

  • Fourier-space generation of abruptly autofocusing beams and optical bottle beams

    Ioannis Chremmos;Peng Zhang;Jai Prakash;Nikolaos K. Efremidis

  • Observation of two-dimensional surface solitons.

    Xiaosheng Wang;Anna Bezryadina;Zhigang Chen;Zhigang Chen;K. G. Makris

  • Abruptly autofocusing waves

    Nikolaos K. Efremidis;Demetrios N. Christodoulides;Ioannis Chremmos;Zhigang Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Demetrios N. Christodoulides University of Southern California
Mordechai Segev
Mordechai Segev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Roberto Morandotti
Roberto Morandotti Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jianke Yang
Jianke Yang University of Vermont
Yuri S. Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University
Dragomir N. Neshev
Dragomir N. Neshev Australian National University
Xiang Zhang
Xiang Zhang University of Hong Kong
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stefan Wabnitz
Stefan Wabnitz Sapienza University of Rome
Xiaobo Yin
Xiaobo Yin University of Hong Kong

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