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Haruki Watanabe1, Ling Lu2,3
1Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
The wide-range application of photonic crystals and metamaterials benefits from the enormous design space of three-dimensional subwavelength structures. In this Letter, we study the space group constraints on photonic dispersions for all 230 space groups with time-reversal symmetry. Our theory carefully treats the unique singular point of photonic bands at zero frequency and momentum, which distinguishes photonic bands from their electronic counterpart. The results are given in terms of minimal band connectivities at zero (M) and nonzero frequencies (M^{'}). Topological band degeneracies are guaranteed to be found in space groups that do not allow band gaps between the second and third photonic bands (M>2). Our Letter provides theoretical guidelines for the choice of spatial symmetries in photonics design.
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