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Maxwell's demon-like nonreciprocity by non-Hermitian gyrotropic metasurfaces

Wenyan Wang1,2, Wang Tat Yau2, Yanxia Cui1, Jin Wang3,*, and Kin Hung Fung2,†

  • 1College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System of Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
  • 2Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
  • 3School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China

  • *jinwang@seu.edu.cn
  • †khfung@polyu.edu.hk
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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L022006 – Published 19 April, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L022006

Abstract

We show that Maxwell's demon-like nonreciprocity can be supported in a class of non-Hermitian gyrotropic metasurfaces in the linear regime. The proposed metasurface functions as a transmission-only Maxwell's demon operating at a pair of photon energies. Based on multiple scattering theory, we construct a dual-dipole model to explain the underlying mechanism that leads to the antisymmetric nonreciprocal transmission. The results may inspire new designs of compact nonreciprocal devices for photonics.

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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L022006– Published 19 April, 2021
  • Received 5 October 2020
  • Accepted 26 March 2021
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