Cubic 3D Chern photonic insulators with orientable large Chern vectors
Chern number controls the number of surface state channels in topological insulators. Here the authors propose 3D Chern insulating cubic photonic crystals with orientable and arbitrarily large Chern numbers demonstrating topologically protected photonic surface states.
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2021-12-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27168-w |