• DocumentCode
    732825
  • Title

    Parity-time (PT) symmetric topological interface states

  • Author

    Weimann, Steffen ; Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Plotnik, Yonatan ; Lumer, Yaakov ; Makris, Konstantinos G. ; Segev, Mordechai ; Szameit, Alexander

  • Author_Institution
    Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally topological interface states in a passive effective PT-symmetric dimerized waveguide array. The PT-symmetric system has unbroken PT symmetry: all eigenvalues in the spectrum are real, despite the system´s non-Hermiticity.
  • Keywords
    interface states; optical arrays; optical waveguides; topological insulators; eigenvalues; nonHermiticity; parity-time symmetric topological interface states; passive effective PT-symmetric dimerized waveguide array; unbroken PT symmetry; Arrays; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Image edge detection; Interface states; Lattices; Optical waveguides; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183262
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=732825