Observation of photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators

Autor: Lukas J. Maczewsky, Julia M. Zeuner, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13756
Popis: Vanishing Chern numbers usually mean that a system is topologically trivial, but this rule may be violated for periodically driven systems. Here, Maczewskyet al.report topologically protected edge modes in a periodically driven photonic lattice with all bands of zero Chern number.
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