Multimode One-Way Waveguides of Large Chern Numbers
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Skirlo, Scott A.
Lu, Ling
Soljacic, Marin
Date Issued
September 2014
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Skirlo, Scott A., Ling Lu, and Marin Soljacic. “Multimode One-Way Waveguides of Large Chern Numbers.” Physical Review Letters 113, no. 11 (September 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Current experimental realizations of the quantum anomalous Hall phase in both electronic and photonic systems have been limited to a Chern number of one. In photonics, this corresponds to a single-mode one-way edge waveguide. Here, we predict quantum anomalous Hall phases in photonic crystals with large Chern numbers of 2, 3, and 4. These new topological phases were found by simultaneously gapping multiple Dirac and quadratic points. We demonstrate a continuously tunable power splitter as a possible application of multimode one-way waveguides. All our findings are readily realizable at microwave frequencies.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials Processing Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.113904