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Topological magnetoplasmon

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-12-08 v3 Materials Science Optics

Abstract

Classical wave fields are real-valued, ensuring the wave states at opposite frequencies and momenta to be inherently identical. Such a particle-hole symmetry can open up new possibilities for topological phenomena in classical systems. Here we show that the historically studied two-dimensional (2D) magnetoplasmon, which bears gapped bulk states and gapless one-way edge states near zero frequency, is topologically analogous to the 2D topological p+\Iipp+\Ii p superconductor with chiral Majorana edge states and zero modes. We further predict a new type of one-way edge magnetoplasmon at the interface of opposite magnetic domains, and demonstrate the existence of zero-frequency modes bounded at the peripheries of a hollow disk. These findings can be readily verified in experiment, and can greatly enrich the topological phases in bosonic and classical systems.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00553,
  title  = {Topological magnetoplasmon},
  author = {Dafei Jin and Ling Lu and Zhong Wang and Chen Fang and John D. Joannopoulos and Marin Soljačić and Liang Fu and Nicholas X. Fang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00553},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures, 1 supporting material

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