Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Symmetry-controlled edge states in the type-II phase of Dirac photonic lattices

  • Georgios G. Pyrialakos,
  • Nora Schmitt,
  • Nicholas S. Nye,
  • Matthias Heinrich,
  • Nikolaos V. Kantartzis,
  • Alexander Szameit,
  • Demetrios N. Christodoulides

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15952-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The electrons in 2D materials like graphene are described by the relativistic Dirac equation. Here the authors present a lattice of evanescently coupled waveguides that emulates a wide range of Dirac excitations and study the type-II edge states that emerge in this photonic system.