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Photonic topological insulator with broken time-reversal symmetry
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Significance: Topological insulators are first discovered in electronic systems. A key factor is the Kramers doublet for the spin-1/2 electrons under fermionic time-reversal symmetry T f 2 = − 1 . Unlike electrons, photons are massless bosons with spin-1. Therefore, the Kramers degeneracy theorem cannot readily apply to photons under the bosonic time-reversal symmetry. So far, there has been no coherent physical explanation for the symmetry protection mechanism behind the photonic topological insulator. Here, we design a photonic topological insulator that violates the bosonic time-reversal symmetry but complies with a fermionic-like pseudo time-reversal symmetry. The analyses and results, through comprehensive investigations on the properties of edge states, validate that the topological edge states are, in fact, protected by the fermionic-like pseudo time-reversal symmetry T p ( T p 2 = − 1 ).
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- Authors
- He, C., Sun, X.-C., Liu, X.-P., Lu, M.-H., Chen, Y., Feng, L., & Chen, Y.-F.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-04-18
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 4924-4928
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2338277331
- Cited by
- 257
- References
- 41
- FWCI
- 15.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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