Mode Delocalization in Disordered Photonic Chern Insulator
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2021-06-23 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Optics
Abstract
In disordered two dimensional Chern insulators, a single bulk extended mode is predicted to exist per band, up to a critical disorder strength; all the other bulk modes are localized. This behavior contrasts strongly with topologically trivial two-dimensional phases, whose modes all become localized in the presence of disorder. Using a tight-binding model of a realistic photonic Chern insulator, we show that delocalized bulk eigenstates can be observed in an experimentally realistic setting. This requires the selective use of resonator losses to suppress topological edge states, and acquiring sufficiently large ensemble sizes using variable resonator detunings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.02231,
title = {Mode Delocalization in Disordered Photonic Chern Insulator},
author = {Udvas Chattopadhyay and Sunil Mittal and Mohammad Hafezi and Y. D. Chong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02231},
year = {2021}
}