Probing topological protection using a designer surface plasmon structure

The limits of topological protection in photonic systems remain unclear. Here, Gao et al. construct photonic topological edge states and probe their robustness against a variety of defect classes, including some common time-reversal-invariant photonic defects that can break the topological protectio...

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Main Authors: Fei Gao, Zhen Gao, Xihang Shi, Zhaoju Yang, Xiao Lin, Hongyi Xu, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, Hongsheng Chen, Ling Lu, Yidong Chong, Baile Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11619