Publications - jwma Lab

2026

$Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders$

We report the first excitonic negative refraction. This work is featured in Phys.org, Mirage News, EurekAlert!, Sciencenet (科学网), 星島頭條, 明報.

Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders

Jingwen Ma*; Xiong Wang*; Yuanhao Gong; Chong Hu; Qi Wang; Kai Feng; Zemeng Lin; Teruya Ishihara; Xiaobo Yin; Shuang Zhang; Zuxin Chen†; Xiaoze Liu†; Xiaodong Cui; Xiang Zhang†. Nature Nanotechnology (2026)

2025

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Interacting topological bosonic systems exhibit fundamentally distinct behaviour to their fermionic counterparts. We report the first topological parametric oscillators based on a Dirac-vortex nano-electro-mechanical cavity.

A topological parametric phonon oscillator

Xiang Xi*; Jingwen Ma*; Xiankai Sun†. Advanced Materials, 37, 2, 2309015 (2025)

Stacking the future of heterogeneous optoelectronics

Jingwen Ma; Xiaobo Yin. Science, 387, eadw1922 (2025) [Invited expert voices]

Hybrid cavity from tunable coupling between anapole and Fabry‐Pérot resonance or anti‐resonance

Aoning Luo; Haitao Li; Ken Qin; Jingwen Ma; Shijie Kang; Jiayu Fan; Yiyi Yao; Xiexuan Zhang; Jiusi Yu; Boyang Qu; Xiaoxiao Wu†. Laser & Photonics Reviews, e02392 (2025)

Monolayer J‐aggregate crystals strong coupling with an all‐dielectric metasurface for photonic properties modification

Xinyi Zhao; Jingwen Ma; Fuhuan Shen†; Xiaokun Guo; Zefeng Chen†; Jianbin Xu†. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 20, 2, e01208 (2025)

Far-field excitation of a photonic flat band via a tailored anapole mode

Peiwen Ren*; Junrong Zheng*; Zhuo Huang*; Yan Liu; Long Zhang; Hua Zhang; Jingwen Ma; Zhanghai Chen†; Jian-Feng Li†; Jun Yi†; Zhilin Yang†. Physical Review Letters, 135, 083803 (2025)

Boundary-induced topological chiral extended states in Weyl metamaterial waveguides

Ning Han; Fujia Chen; Mingzhu Li; Rui Zhao; Wenhao Li; Qiaolu Chen; Li Zhang; Yuang Pan; Yuze Hu; Mingyu Tong; Lu Qi; Jingwen Ma; Zhi-Ming Yu; Hongsheng Chen†; Yihao Yang†. Physical Review Letters, 134, 196601 (2025)

2024

Vortex strings are hypothetical topological defects in the geometry of spacetime in cosmology. We report the first experimental observations of vortex string chiral modes using a meta-material system.

Observation of vortex-string chiral modes in metamaterials

Jingwen Ma; Ding Jia; Li Zhang; Yi-jun Guan; Yong Ge; Hong-xiang Sun†; Shou-qi Yuan; Hongsheng Chen; Yihao Yang†; Xiang Zhang†. Nature Communications, 15, 2332 (2024)

Parity-time and anti-parity-time symmetries in heat transfer

Jingwen Ma; Xiang Zhang; Xiaobo Yin†. National Science Review, 11, 9, nwae275 (2024) [Invited Commentary]

Tunable Kerker scattering in a self-coupled polaritonic metasurface

Fuhuan Shen; Yaoqiang Zhou; Jingwen Ma; Jiapeng Zheng; Jianfang Wang; Zefeng Chen†; Jianbin Xu†. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 18, 1, 2300584 (2024)

2023

We report the first Dirac-vortex microcavity laser that harnesses an auxiliary orbital degree of freedom. This work is featured in Light: Science & Applications 13, 64 (2024), Phys.org, and Sciencenet (科学网).

Room-temperature continuous-wave Dirac-vortex topological lasers on silicon

Jingwen Ma*; Taojie Zhou*; Mingchu Tang*; Haochuan Li; Zhan Zhang; Xiang Xi; Mickael Martin; Thierry Baron; Huiyun Liu; Zhaoyu Zhang†; Siming Chen†; Xiankai Sun†. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 255 (2023)

Exciton polaritons in emergent two-dimensional semiconductors

Haifeng Kang; Jingwen Ma†; Junyu Li; Xiang Zhang†; Xiaoze Liu†. ACS Nano, 17, 24, 24449–24467 (2023)

2D-materials-integrated optoelectromechanics: recent progress and future perspectives

Mingzeng Peng; Jiadong Cheng; Xinhe Zheng; Jingwen Ma; Ziyao Feng; Xiankai Sun†. Reports on Progress in Physics, 86, 2, 26402 (2023)

2022

Monolithically integrated ultralow threshold topological corner state nanolasers on silicon

Taojie Zhou*; Jingwen Ma*; Mingchu Tang*; Haochuan Li; Mickael Martin; Thierry Baron; Huiyun Liu; Siming Chen†; Xiankai Sun†; Zhaoyu Zhang†. ACS Photonics, 9, 12, 3824–3830 (2022)

Transition metal dichalcogenide metaphotonic and self-coupled polaritonic platform grown by chemical vapor deposition

Fuhuan Shen; Zhenghe Zhang; Yaoqiang Zhou; Jingwen Ma; Kun Chen; Huanjun Chen; Shaojun Wang; Jianbin Xu†; Zefeng Chen†. Nature Communications, 13, 5597 (2022)

Terahertz topological photonic waveguide switch for on-chip communication

Xudong Liu; Jialiang Huang; Hao Chen; Zhengfang Qian; Jingwen Ma; Xiankai Sun; Shuting Fan; Yiwen Sun†. Photonics Research, 10, 4, 1090–1096 (2022)

2021

We report an topological system with auxiliary orbital degree of freedom. This work is featured in Nature Nanotechnology 16 (5): 487–489 (2021).

Nanomechanical topological insulators with an auxiliary orbital degree of freedom

Jingwen Ma*; Xiang Xi*; Yuan Li; Xiankai Sun†. Nature Nanotechnology, 16, 5, 576–583 (2021)

Experimental demonstration of dual-band nanoelectromechanical valley-Hall topological metamaterials

Jingwen Ma*; Xiang Xi*; Xiankai Sun†. Advanced Materials, 33, 10, 2006521 (2021)

Observation of chiral edge states in gapped nanomechanical graphene

Xiang Xi*; Jingwen Ma*; Shuai Wan; Chun-Hua Dong; Xiankai Sun†. Science Advances, 7, 2, eabe1398 (2021) [This work is featured in Phys.org and StatNano]

Experimental investigation of the angular symmetry of optical force in a solid dielectric

Xiang Xi; Jingwen Ma; Zhong-Hao Zhou; Xin-Xin Hu; Yuan Chen; Chang-Ling Zou†; Chun-Hua Dong†; Xiankai Sun†. Optica, 8, 11, 1435–1441 (2021)

2019

We demonstrate topological photonic integrated circuits. This work is featured as cover article.

Topological photonic integrated circuits based on valley kink states

Jingwen Ma; Xiang Xi; Xiankai Sun†. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 13, 12, 1900087 (2019)

Amplification of 18 OAM modes in a ring-core Erbium-doped fiber with low differential modal gain

Jingwen Ma*; Fei Xia*; Shi Chen*; Jian Wang†. Optics Express, 27, 26, 38087–38097 (2019)

Optically controlled topologically protected acoustic wave amplification

Jingwen Ma; Ziyao Feng; Yuan Li; Xiankai Sun†. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26, 5, 1–10 (2019)

Photonic integrated circuits with bound states in the continuum

Zejie Yu; Xiang Xi; Jingwen Ma; Hon Ki Tsang; Chang-Ling Zou; Xiankai Sun†. Optica, 6, 10, 1342–1348 (2019)

2016

We propose a new design of on-chip isolator using photonic spin-orbit interaction. This work is featured as cover article and selected by Optics & Photonics News (OPN), The optical Society's monthly news magazine, as one of the world's 30 most clearly communicated breakthroughs in optics in 2016.

Hybrid graphene/silicon integrated optical isolators with photonic spin-orbit interaction

Jingwen Ma; Xiang Xi; Zejie Yu; Xiankai Sun†. Applied Physics Letters, 108, 15, 151103 (2016)

Selected Publications