Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Topological phases and bulk-edge correspondence of magnetized cold plasmas

  • Yichen Fu,
  • Hong Qin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24189-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Magnetized plasma can be regarded as topological matter. Here the authors identify a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of topological edge mode and find that cold magnetized plasma has ten topological phases in the plasma frequency, cyclotron frequency and wave-vector space.