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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6782
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- NSFC [11274396]
- ADC 973 [2014CB931700]
- HK Research Grant Council through AoE [AOE/P-02/12]
- Guangdong Distinguished Young Scholar, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University
- OEMT
- supercomputer 'Tianhe-2'
- supercomputer 'Nanfang-1'
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Photonic analogue of topological insulator was recently predicted by arranging epsilon/mu (permittivity/permeability)-matched bianisotropic metamaterials into two-dimensional superlattices. However, the experimental observation of such photonic topological insulator is challenging as bianisotropic metamaterial is usually highly dispersive, so that the epsilon/mu-matching condition can only be satisfied in a narrow frequency range. Here we experimentally realize a photonic topological insulator by embedding non-bianisotropic and non-resonant metacrystal into a waveguide. The cross coupling between transverse electric and transverse magnetic modes exists in metacrystal waveguide. Using this approach, the epsilon/mu-matching condition is satisfied in a broad frequency range which facilitates experimental observation. The topologically non-trivial bandgap is confirmed by experimentally measured transmission spectra and calculated non-zero spin Chern numbers. Gapless spin-filtered edge states are demonstrated experimentally by measuring the magnitude and phase of the fields. The transport robustness of the edge states is also observed when an obstacle was introduced near the edge.
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