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Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials

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Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials. / Poli, Charles Joseph; Schomerus, Henning Ulrich; Bellec, Matthieu et al.
In: 2D Materials, Vol. 4, No. 2, 025008, 06.2017.

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Poli, CJ, Schomerus, HU, Bellec, M, Kuhl, U & Mortessagne, F 2017, 'Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials', 2D Materials, vol. 4, no. 2, 025008.

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Poli, C. J., Schomerus, H. U., Bellec, M., Kuhl, U., & Mortessagne, F. (2017). Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials. 2D Materials, 4(2), Article 025008.

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Poli CJ, Schomerus HU, Bellec M, Kuhl U, Mortessagne F. Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials. 2D Materials. 2017 Jun;4(2):025008. Epub 2017 Jan 25.

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Poli, Charles Joseph ; Schomerus, Henning Ulrich ; Bellec, Matthieu et al. / Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials. In: 2D Materials. 2017 ; Vol. 4, No. 2.

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abstract = "Bipartite quantum systems from the chiral universality classes admit topologically protected zero modes at point defects. However, in two-dimensional systems these states can be difficult to separate from compacton-like localized states that arise from flat bands, formed if the two sublattices support a different number of sites within a unit cell. Here we identify a natural reduction of chiral symmetry, obtained by coupling sites on the majority sublattice, which gives rise to spectrally isolated point-defect states, topologically characterized as zero modes supported by the complementary minority sublattice. We observe these states in a microwave realization of a dimerized Lieb lattice with next-nearest neighbour coupling, and also demonstrate topological mode selection via sublattice-staggered absorption.",
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T1 - Partial chiral symmetry-breaking as a route to spectrally isolated topological defect states in two-dimensional artificial materials

AU - Poli, Charles Joseph

AU - Schomerus, Henning Ulrich

AU - Bellec, Matthieu

AU - Kuhl, Ulrich

AU - Mortessagne, Fabrice

PY - 2017/6

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N2 - Bipartite quantum systems from the chiral universality classes admit topologically protected zero modes at point defects. However, in two-dimensional systems these states can be difficult to separate from compacton-like localized states that arise from flat bands, formed if the two sublattices support a different number of sites within a unit cell. Here we identify a natural reduction of chiral symmetry, obtained by coupling sites on the majority sublattice, which gives rise to spectrally isolated point-defect states, topologically characterized as zero modes supported by the complementary minority sublattice. We observe these states in a microwave realization of a dimerized Lieb lattice with next-nearest neighbour coupling, and also demonstrate topological mode selection via sublattice-staggered absorption.

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KW - topological materials

KW - symmetries

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KW - Lieb lattice

KW - Dirac points

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JO - 2D Materials

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