Photonic Floquet topological insulators
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...Finally, gapless surface states were also reported to exist in a bulk hyperbolic metamaterial having bi-anisotropic responses [59]....
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...Much like the field of topological insulators in electronics, topological photonics promises an enormous variety of breakthroughs in both the fundamental physics and the technological outcomes....
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...3-D photonic integration could enable even larger ONNs by adding another spatial degree of freedom [44]....
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...Using photonic crystal fibres, a classical version of this proposal was used to study topologically protected edge modes in the inversion-symmetric regime [21]....
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...The topological insulator[1] is a new phase of matter, with the striking property that the conduction of electrons occurs only on its surface, and is topologically protected....
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...We show this behaviour in beam-propagation-method (BPM) simulations(30), solving equation (1) (see Supplementary Video 1)....
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...The quantum mechanical analogue of equation (1) describes the propagation of a quantum particle that evolves in time—for example, an electron in a solid....
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...Launching a beam into the waveguide at the upper-left corner of the triangle (circled) excites two types of eigenstates: (1) bulk states extending to the corner, and (2) edge states that meet at the corner....
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...es: (1) employing bianisotropic metamaterials with strong magnetic response16; (2) using an aperiodic coupled-resonator system that realizes the quantum Hall effect in two uncoupled photonic modes10; (3) by dynamically modulating a two-dimensional photonic crystal structure17 to explicitly break time-reversal symmetry; and (4) by coupling the polarization and propagation degrees of freedom18. However...
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...veguide modes and the presence of the vector potential allow us to describe the propagation of light through the lattice by coupled mode theory: i∂ z" ψ n (z")=c(λ)eiA·r mnψ m (z") m ∑ (3) where the summation is only taken over nearest-neighbor waveguides; ψ n(z’) is the amplitude of the mode in the nth waveguide; c(λ) is the wavelength-dependent coupling constant between waveguides an...
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