Inverse Design of Valley-Like Edge States of Sound Degenerated Away from the High-Symmetry Points in a Square Lattice

Autor: Jishi Yang, Yaolu Liu, Dongyang Sun, Ning Hu, Huiming Ning
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Materials; Volume 15; Issue 19; Pages: 6697
ISSN: 1996-1944
DOI: 10.3390/ma15196697
Popis: Robust edge states of periodic crystals with Dirac points fixed at the corners or centers of the Brillouin zones have drawn extensive attention. Recently, researchers have observed a special edge state associated with Dirac cones degenerated at the high symmetric boundaries of the first irreducible Brillouin zone. These nodal points, characterized by vortex structures in the momentum space, are attributed to the unavailable band crossing protected by mirror symmetry. By breaking the time reversal symmetry with intuitive rotations, valley-like states can be observed in a pair of inequivalent insulators. In this paper, an improved direct inverse design method is first applied to realize the valley-like states. Compared with the conventional strategy, the preparation of transition structures with degeneracy points is skipped. By introducing the quantitative gauge of mode inversion error, insulator pairs are directly obtained without manually tuning the structure with Dirac cone features.
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