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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 105, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.053510
Keywords
topological photonic systems; First; non-Hermiticity funda-
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- Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 3 [MOE2016T3-1-006]
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We present the design of a non-Hermitian photonic Chern insulator that allows tuning of its band topology through gain and loss parameters. Numerical simulations demonstrate a topological phase transition accompanied by the closing and reopening of a Dirac cone. The results suggest the possibility of non-Hermitian control over band topology in a Chern insulator setting and potential applications in active topological photonic devices.
We present a design of a non-Hermitian photonic Chern insulator whose band topology can be tuned via gain and loss. It is found that, by continuously varying the gain and loss parameter, a topological phase transition can take place in the photonic crystal, accompanied by the closing and reopening of a Dirac cone. We demonstrate this phenomenon through numerical simulations of the bulk and the edge dispersions, and steady field distributions excited by a point source. Our results show the possibility of non-Hermitian control over band topology in a Chern insulator setting and may find applications in active topological photonic devices.
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