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Série SEM-LPTMC
Domaines cond-mat.mes-hall
Date Lundi 14 Octobre 2019
Heure 10:45
Institut LPTMC
Salle campus Jussieu, tower 13-12, 5th floor, room 523
Nom de l'orateur Marciani
Prenom de l'orateur Marco
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Institution de l'orateur Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon
Titre Optical topological chiral modes flowing between non-topological materials
Résumé The most remarkable feature of the so-called "topological crystals" is the presence of states flowing at their edge that are robust against disorder. A beautiful mathematical theory allows to predict the properties of such states directly from the topological invariants (e.g. the Chern numbers) of the bulk bands. Given the great success of this theory in terms of theoretical impact and technological advance, in recent years much effort has been put to make the extension from the field electronics to other fields[1] and from crystals to various non-crystaline systems such as quasi-crystals and amorphous materials. In this talk I will show how deal with continuous systems governed by linear Maxwell's equations[2]. Even though bands Chern numbers cannot be defined and optical materials are non-topological, we discover that interface Chern numbers can always be defined by means of the theory of spectral flows[3]. These invariants correctly describe chiral modes as we verified numerically on interfaces between different gyrotropic materials. [1] S. Raghu and F. D. M. Haldane, Phys. Rev. A78, 033834 (2008). [2] M. G. Silveirinha, Phys. Rev. B92, 125153 (2015). [3] M. Marciani and P. Delplace, arXiv:1906.09057 (2019).
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