Topological photonics

L Lu, JD Joannopoulos, M Soljačić - Nature photonics, 2014 - nature.com
The application of topology, the mathematics of conserved properties under continuous
deformations, is creating a range of new opportunities throughout photonics. This field was …

Honeycomb Schrödinger operators in the strong binding regime

CL Fefferman, JP Lee‐Thorp… - … on Pure and Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we study the Schrödinger operator for a large class of periodic potentials with
the symmetry of a hexagonal tiling of the plane. The potentials we consider are …

Elliptic operators with honeycomb symmetry: Dirac points, edge states and applications to photonic graphene

JP Lee-Thorp, MI Weinstein, Y Zhu - Archive for Rational Mechanics and …, 2019 - Springer
Consider electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional honeycomb structured media, whose
constitutive laws have the symmetries of a hexagonal tiling of the plane. The properties of …

Edge states in honeycomb structures

CL Fefferman, JP Lee-Thorp, MI Weinstein - Annals of PDE, 2016 - Springer
An edge state is a time-harmonic solution of a conservative wave system, eg Schrödinger,
Maxwell, which is propagating (plane-wave-like) parallel to, and localized transverse to, a …

High tunability and sensitivity of 1D topological photonic crystal heterostructure

S Elshahat, ZEA Mohamed, M Almokhtar… - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A modality to high tunability and sensing performance of a one-dimensional (1D) topological
photonic crystal (PC) heterostructure is realized, based on a new mechanism through a 1D …

Topological phases in Kagome and triangular photonic crystals

H Zhang, Z Gu, J Ding - JOSA B, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Topological photonics facilitates the propagation of terahertz waves with extremely high
transmission and without backscattering, even in the presence of sharp corners and defects …

Topological invariants in point group symmetric photonic topological insulators

XD Chen, ZL Deng, WJ Chen, JR Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
We proposed a group-theory method to calculate topological invariant in bi-isotropic
photonic crystals invariant under crystallographic point group symmetries. Spin Chern …

[图书][B] Bifurcation perspective on topologically protected and non-protected states in continuous systems

JP Lee-Thorp - 2016 - search.proquest.com
We study Schrödinger operators perturbed by non-compact (spatially extended) defects. We
consider two models: a one-dimensional (1D) dimer structure with a global phase shift, and …

Photonic analogue of quantum spin Hall effect

C He, XC Sun, X Liu, MH Lu, Y Chen, L Feng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
Symmetry-protected photonic topological insulator exhibiting robust pseudo-spin-dependent
transportation, analogous to quantum spin Hall (QSH) phases and topological insulators …

Reflections-free wave propagation at the interface of photonic topological insulators: Theory and experiment

T Ma, K Lai, G Shvets - CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A comprehensive library of photonic topological insulators (gyromagnetic, bianisotropic, and
2D-asymmetric) is established. An interface between any two of them supports reflectionless …