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ArticleNature communications2026

Ohm's law of electromagnetic ideal fluids: impedance-governed supercoupling in complex near-zero-index networks.

Wendi Yan, Peihang Li, Jiarui Liu, Kaifeng Li, Pengyu Fu, Shuyu Wang, Mingzhe Hu, Yue Li

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Wendi Yan *Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8173-5073
Peihang Li *Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1015-7290
Jiarui LiuDepartment of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Kaifeng LiDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-0629-1170
Pengyu FuDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shuyu WangDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Mingzhe HuDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yue LiDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. lyee@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9562-3136

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Abstract

Supercoupling in near-zero-index (NZI) media enables geometry-insensitive electromagnetic (EM) transport through narrow channels with near-zero phase delay. However, most studies have focused on single-channel, point-to-point configurations, leaving EM power-flow distribution in complex structures largely unexplored. Here we extend NZI supercoupling to complex structures and show that EM power flow follows a passive, deterministic, and quasi-static distribution governed by boundary conditions and impedance contrasts, with PEC-terminated branches carrying no propagating power flow. We interpret this behavior using a pressure-driven flow analogy and directly visualize it in a waveguide-emulated plasmonic platform with photonic doping. This quasi-static power-flow distribution follows an "Ohm's law of ideal EM power flow", where the potential is set by boundary conditions and the effective impedance by each branch's length-to-width ratio. Beyond the physical interpretation, our results suggest an impedance-designed approach to passive multi-port EM interconnects, offering insights for NZI physics and on-chip networks at millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies.

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