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arXiv 1507.00337cond-mat.mes-hallphysics.optics
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具有单面Dirac锥的三维拓扑光子晶体

Three-dimensional topological photonic crystal with a single surface Dirac cone

Ling Lu, Chen Fang, Liang Fu, Steven G. Johnson, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić

摘要:

表面上的单个狄拉克锥是三维(3D)拓扑绝缘体的标志,其中狄拉克点处的双简并性由时间反演对称性保护,并且远离该点的自旋分裂由自旋轨道耦合提供。在这里,我们预测一个单一的狄拉克锥表面态的3D光子晶体,在狄拉克点的简并保护由非对称的滑移反射和线性分裂远离它是通过打破时间反演对称性。这样的无间隙表面状态对于任何类型的随机无序都是完全鲁棒的。这种玻色子拓扑能带结构是通过施加交替磁化来间隔在我们的晶体大部分中发现的3D“广义狄拉克点”来实现的。$Z_2$体不变量的特点是通过Wannier中心的演变。我们的提议--在微波频率下使用亚铁磁材料很容易实现--也可以被看作是拓扑晶体绝缘体的光子模拟,提供了第一个3D玻色子保护拓扑系统。

英文摘要:

A single Dirac cone on the surface is the hallmark of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators, where the double degeneracy at the Dirac point is protected by time-reversal symmetry and the spin-splitting away from the point is provided by the spin-orbital coupling. Here we predict a single Dirac-cone surface state in a 3D photonic crystal, where the degeneracy at the Dirac point is protected by a nonsymmorphic glide reflection and the linear splitting away from it is enabled by breaking time-reversal symmetry. Such a gapless surface state is fully robust against random disorder of any type. This bosonic topological band structure is achieved by applying alternating magnetization to gap out the 3D "generalized Dirac points" discovered in the bulk of our crystal. The $Z_2$ bulk invariant is characterized through the evolution of Wannier centers. Our proposal--readily realizable using ferrimagnetic materials at microwave frequencies--can also be regarded as the photonic analog of topological crystalline insulators, providing the first 3D bosonic symmetry-protected topological system.

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