Quantum Detectors + Sensors
- Type-1.5 SNSPD: Interacting vortex theory of two bandgap superconducting single photon detectors
L. Bauer, S. Bharadwaj, D. he, S. Liu, P. V. Balachandran, and Z. Jacob
arXiv (2025) [article link]
- Quantum Theory of Optical Spin Texture in Chiral Tellurium Lattice
P. Das, S. Bhawadwaj, J. Mun, X. Wang, J. Rho, and Z. Jacob
arXiv (2025) [article link]
- Computational Kerr ellipsometry: Quantifying broadband optical nonreciprocity of magneto-optic materials
V Choudhury, C Khandekar, A K Boddeti, A Jishi, M Erkovan, T Sentz, F Kalhor, S Cardoso, VR Supradeepa and Z Jacob
Physical Review B 109 (5), 054433 (2024).[article link]
- Computational Electromagnetics Meets Spin Qubits: Controlling Noise Effects in Quantum Sensing and Computing
W Sun, S Bharadwaj, R Zhou, D Jiao and Z Jacob
IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques 9, 290-302 (2024) [article link]
- Optical N-plasmon: topological hydrodynamic excitations in graphene from repulsive Hall viscosity
W Sun, T Van Mechelen, S Bharadwaj, AK Boddeti, Z Jacob
New Journal of Physics 25 (11), 113009 (2023) [article link]
- Picophotonics: Anomalous Atomistic Waves in Silicon
S Bharadwaj, TV Mechelen, Z Jacob
Physical Review Applied 18 (4), 044065 (2022) [article link]
- Optically induced static magnetic field in the ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Farid Kalhor, Noah F. Opondo, Shoaib Mahmud, Leif Bauer, Li-Ping Yang, Sunil A. Bhave, and Zubin Jacob
Optics Letters 47, 3347-3350 (2022) [article link]
- Quantum field theory for spin operator of the photon
Li Ping Yang, Farhad Khosravi and Zubin Jacob
Physical Review Research 4 (2) 023165 (2022) [article link]
- Optical N-insulators: Topological obstructions to optical Wannier functions in the atomistic susceptibility tensor
Todd Van Mechelen, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob, and Robert-Jan Slager
Physics Review Research 4, 023011(2022) [Editor’s suggestion] [article link]
- Deep Ultra-Violet Plasmonics: exploiting momentum-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy to probe Germanium
Z. Poursoti,W. Sun, S. Bharadwaj, M. Malac, S. Iyer, F. Khosravi, K. Cui, L. Qi, N. Nazemifard, R. Jagannath, R. Rahman and Z. Jacob
Opt. Express Vol. 30, Issue 8, pp 12630-12638 (2022) [article link]
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Non-classical photonic spin texture of quantum structured light
Yang, Li-Ping, and Zubin Jacob.
Communications Physics 4, no. 1: 1-9 (2021) [article link]
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Single and Multi‐Mode Directional Lasing from Arrays of Dielectric Nanoresonators
Azzam, Shaimaa I., Krishnakali Chaudhuri, Alexei Lagutchev, Zubin Jacob, Young L. Kim, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Laser & Photonics Reviews 15, no. 3: 2000411. (2021) [article link]
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Two-dimensional extreme skin depth engineering for CMOS photonics
van Niekerk, M., Jahani, S., Bickford, J., Cho, P., Anderson, S., Leake, G., Coleman, D., Fanto, M.L., Tison, C.C., Howland, G.A. and Jacob, Z.. J.
Opt. .Soc. Am. B, 38(4), pp.1307-1316. (2021) [article link]
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Optical N-invariant of graphene’s topological viscous Hall fluid
T Van Mechelen, W Sun, Z Jacob
Nature Communications 12 (1), 1-9 (2021) [article link]
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Quantum sensing of photonic spin density using a single spin qubit
Kalhor, F., Yang, L. P., Bauer, L., & Jacob, Z.,
Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043007, (2021) [Editor’s Suggestion] [article link]
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Enhancing the Performance of Superconducting Nanowire-Based Detectors with High-Filling Factor by Using Variable Thickness
Baghdadi, Reza, Schmidt, Ekkehart, Jahani, Saman, Charaev, Ilya, Mueller, Michael, Zhu, Di, Colangelo, Marco, Il'in, Konstantin, Semenov, A, Jacob, Zubin, Siegel, Michael, Berggren, Karl
Superconducting Science and Technology 34 (3), 035010 (2021) [article link]
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Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling
Zhujing Xu, Zubin Jacob and Tongcang Li
Nanophotonics, 20200391 (2020) [article link]
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Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics
Minkyung Kim, Zubin Jacob and Junsuk Rho
Light: Science & Applications 9, 130 (2020) [article link]
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Dirac wire: Fermionic waveguides with longitudinal spin
F. Khosravi, T. V. Mechelen and Z. Jacob
Phys. Rev. B. 100 (15), 155105 (2019) [article link]
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Spectral domain inverse design for accelerating nanocomposite metamaterials discovery
A. K. Boddeti, A. Alabassi, V. Aggarwal, Z. Jacob
Opt. Mat. Exp. 9 (12) 4765-4771 (2019) [article link]
- Thermal Spin Photonics in the Near-Field of Non-Reciprocal Media
C. Khandekar and Z. Jacob
New. J. Phys. 21 103030 (2019) [article link]
- Quantum critical detector: amplifying weak signals using discontinuous quantum phase transitions
LP Yang, Z Jacob
Optics express 27 (8), 10482-10494 (2019) [article link]
- Spin photonics in 3D whispering gallery mode resonators
F Khosravi, CL Cortes, Z Jacob
Optics express 27 (11), 15846-15855 (2019) [article link]
- Nonlocal topological electromagnetic phases of matter
T. V. Mechelen, Z. Jacob
Physical Review B99 (20) 205 146 (2019) [Editor’s suggestion] [article link]
- Spin photonic forces in non-reciprocal waveguides
S. Pendharker, F. Kalhor, T. Mechelen, S. Jahani, N. Nazemifard, T. Thundat, and Z. Jacob
Optics Express vol. 26, no. 18, pp. 23898–23910, 2018 [article link]
- Quantum gyroelectric effect: Photon spin-1 quantization in continuum topological bosonic phases
T. Mechelen and Z. Jacob
Physical Review A, vol. 98, 2018 [article link]
- Thermal graphene metamaterials and epsilon-near-zero high temperature plasmonics
S. Pendharker, Huan Hu, S. Molesky, R. S. Bowes, Z. Poursoti, S. Pramanik, N. Nazemifard, R. Fedosejevs, T. Thundat and Z. Jacob
Journal of Optics, vol. 19, no. 5, 2017 [article link]
- Super-Coulombic atom–atom interactions in hyperbolic media
C. L. Cortes and Z. Jacob
Nature Communications, vol. 8, 2017 [article link]
- Roadmap on optical metamaterials
A. M. Urbas, Z. Jacob, L. D. Negro, N. Engheta, A D Boardman, P Egan, A.B. Khanikaev, V. Menon, M. Ferrera, N. Kinsey, C. DeVault, J. Kim, V. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, J. Valentine, C. Pfeiffer, A. Grbic, E. Narimanov, L. Zhu, S. Fan, A. Alù, E. Poutrina, N. M. Litchinitser, M. A Noginov, K.F. MacDonald, E. Plum, X. Liu, P.F. Nealey, C.R. Kagan, C.B. Murray, D.A. Pawlak, I.I. Smolyaninov, V.N. Smolyaninova and D. Chanda
Journal of Optics, vol. 18, no. 9, 2016 [article link]
- Universal spin-momentum locked optical forces
F. Kalhor, T. Thundat, and Z. Jacob
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 108, 2016 [article link]
- Universal spin-momentum locking of evanescent waves
T. Van Mechelan and Z. Jacob
Optica, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 118–126, 2016 [article link]
- All-dielectric metamaterials
S. Jahani and Z. Jacob
Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 11, pp. 23–26, 2016 [article link]
- Ideal near-field thermophotovoltaic cells
S. Molesky and Z. Jacob
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, vol. 91, no. 20, 2015 [article link]
- Preferential emission into epsilon-near-zero metamaterial
T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, Z. Jacob, and V. M. Menon
Optical Materials Express, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 2878–2883, 2015 [article link]
- Optical characterization of epsilon-near-zero, epsilon-near-pole, and hyperbolic response in nanowire metamaterials
T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, Z. Jacob, and V. M. Menon
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 2074–2080, 2015 [article link]
- Angular distribution of emission from hyperbolic metamaterials
Lei Gu, J. E. Livenere, G. Zhu, T. U. Tumkur, H. Hu, C. L. Cortes, Z. Jacob, S. M. Prokes, M. A. Noginov
Scientific Reports, vol. 4, no. 7327, 2014 [article link]
- Fluctuational electrodynamics of hyperbolic metamaterials
Y. Guo and Z. Jacob
Journal of Applied Physics , vol. 115, no. 23, 2014 [article link]
- Hyperbolic metamaterials: fundamentals and applications
P. Shekhar, J. Atkinson, and Z. Jacob
Nano Convergence , vol. 1, no. 14, 2014 [article link]
- Giant nonequilibrium vacuum friction: Role of singular evanescent wave resonances in moving media
Y. Guo and Z. Jacob
Journal of Optics, vol. 16, no. 11, 2014 [article link]
- Transparent subdiffraction optics: nanoscale light confinement without metal
S. Jahani and Z. Jacob
Optica, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 96–100, 2014 [article link]
- Photonic analog of a van Hove singularity in metamaterials
C. L. Cortes and Z. Jacob
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, vol. 88, no. 4, 2013 [article link]