Surface bound states in the continuum

Date

2012

Authors

Molina, Mario I
Miroshnichenko, Andrey
Kivshar, Yuri

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American Physical Society

Abstract

We introduce a novel concept of surface bound states in the continuum, i.e., surface modes embedded into the linear spectral band of a discrete lattice. We suggest an efficient method for creating such surface modes and the local bounded potential necessary to support the embedded modes. We demonstrate that the surface embedded modes are structurally stable, and the position of their eigenvalues inside the spectral band can be tuned continuously by adding weak nonlinearity.

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Keywords

Keywords: Bound state; Discrete lattices; Eigenvalues; Linear spectral; Novel concept; Spectral band; Surface modes; Weak nonlinearity; Atomic physics; Physics; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions

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Source

Physical Review Letters

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Journal article

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Open Access

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