Antichiral surface states in time-reversal-invariant photonic semimetals

Jian-Wei Liu, Fu-Long Shi, Ke Shen, Xiao-Dong Chen, Ke Chen, Wen-Jie Chen () and Jian-Wen Dong ()
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Jian-Wei Liu: Sun Yat-sen University
Fu-Long Shi: Sun Yat-sen University
Ke Shen: Sun Yat-sen University
Xiao-Dong Chen: Sun Yat-sen University
Ke Chen: Sun Yat-sen University
Wen-Jie Chen: Sun Yat-sen University
Jian-Wen Dong: Sun Yat-sen University

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Besides chiral edge states, the hallmark of quantum Hall insulators, antichiral edge states can exhibit unidirectional transport behavior but in topological semimetals. Although such edge states provide more flexibility for molding the flow of light, their realization usually suffers from time-reversal breaking. In this study, we propose the realization of antichiral surface states in a time-reversal-invariant manner and demonstrate our idea with a three-dimensional (3D) photonic metacrystal. Our system is a photonic semimetal possessing two asymmetrically dispersed Dirac nodal lines. Via dimension reduction, the nodal lines are rendered a pair of offset Dirac points. By introducing synthetic gauge flux, each two-dimensional (2D) subsystem with nonzero kz is analogous to a modified Haldane model, yielding a kz-dependent antichiral surface transport. Through microwave experiments, the bulk dispersion with asymmetric nodal lines and associated twisted ribbon surface states are demonstrated in our 3D time-reversal-invariant system. Although our idea is demonstrated in a photonic system, we propose a general approach to realize antichiral edge states in time-reversal-invariant systems. This approach can be easily extended to systems beyond photonics and may pave the way for further applications of antichiral transport.

Date: 2023
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