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Using Microwave and Macroscopic Samples of Dielectric Solids to Study the Photonic Properties of Disordered Photonic Bandgap Materials
Published on: September 26, 2014
Three-dimensional Weyl topology in one-dimensional photonic structures
Kosmas L Tsakmakidis1, Tomasz P Stefański2
1Section of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, GR-157 84, Athens, Greece. ktsakmakidis@phys.uoa.gr.
Abstract:
Topological features, in particular distinct band intersections known as nodal rings, usually requiring three-dimensional structures, have now been demonstrated experimentally in an elegantly simple one-dimensional photonic crystal.
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