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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chiara Devescovi, Mikel García-Díez, Iñigo Robredo, María Blanco de Paz, Jon Lasa-Alonso, Barry Bradlyn, Juan L. Mañes, Maia G. Vergniory, Aitzol García-Etxarri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27168-w