Author : Charles Fefferman
Release : 2017
Genre : Dirac equation
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Topologically Protected States in One-dimensional Systems by : Charles Fefferman
Download or read book Topologically Protected States in One-dimensional Systems written by Charles Fefferman. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study a class of periodic Schrödinger operators, which in distinguished cases can be proved to have linear band-crossings or "mDirac points". We then show that the introduction of an "edge", via adiabatic modulation of these periodic potentials by a domain wall, results in the bifurcation of spatially localized "edge states". These bound states are associated with the topologically protected zero-energy mode of an asymptotic one-dimensional Dirac operator. Our model captures many aspects of the phenomenon of topologically protected edge states for two-dimensional bulk structures such as the honeycomb structure of graphene. The states we construct can be realized as highly robust TM-electromagnetic modes for a class of photonic waveguides with a phase-defect.