Published January 1, 2018
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Snowflake phononic topological insulator at the nanoscale
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
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University of Malta
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California Institute of Technology
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University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Abstract
We show how the snowflake phononic crystal structure, which recently has been realized experimentally, can be turned into a topological ins ulator for mechanical waves. This idea, based purely on simple geometrical modifications, could be readily implemented on the nanoscale.
Additional Information
© 2018 American Physical Society. Received 22 February 2017; published 18 January 2018. C.B. and F.M. acknowledge funding by the Max Planck Society. C.B., V.P., and F.M. acknowledge support by the ERC StG OPTOMECH. V.P. and F.M. acknowledge funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 732894 (FETPRO HOT). V.P. acknowledges support by the Julian Schwinger Foundation (Grant No. JSF-16-03-0000). O.P. acknowledges funding by the AFOSR-MURI Quantum Photonic Matter, the ARO-MURI Quantum Opto-Mechanics with Atoms and Nanostructured Diamond (Grant No. N00014-15- 1-2761), and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center (Grant No. PHY-1125565) with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant No. GBMF-2644).Attached Files
Published - PhysRevB.97.020102.pdf
Submitted - 1701.06330.pdf
Supplemental Material - supplementary_information.pdf
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Additional titles
- Alternative title
- Snowflake Topological Insulator for Sound Waves
Identifiers
- Eprint ID
- 77028
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20170427-154005220
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Funding
- Max Planck Society
- European Research Council (ERC)
- OPTOMECH
- European Research Council (ERC)
- 732894
- Julian Schwinger Foundation
- JSF-16-03-0000
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- N00014-15-1-2761
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
- NSF
- PHY-1125565
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- GBMF-2644
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2017-04-27Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-15Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter , Kavli Nanoscience Institute