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Spin- and valley-polarized one-way Klein tunneling in photonic topological insulators

Xiang Ni ORCID David Purtseladze ORCID Daria A. Smirnova Alexey Slobozhanyuk Andrea Alù ORCID Alexander B. Khanikaev ORCID
Science Advances Vol. 4 No. 5 · American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Abstract
We demonstrate a robust pseudospin- and valley-polarized one-way Klein tunneling and topological edge states.
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Published
May 04, 2018
Vol/Issue
4(5)
Authors
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Xiang Ni

Department of Electrical Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, 140th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.; Physics Program, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.

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David Purtseladze

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78701, USA.

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Daria A. Smirnova

Department of Electrical Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, 140th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.

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Alexey Slobozhanyuk

Department of Electrical Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, 140th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.; Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia.

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Andrea Alù

Department of Electrical Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, 140th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.; Physics Program, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78701, USA.; Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA.

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Alexander B. Khanikaev

Department of Electrical Engineering, Grove School of Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, 140th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.; Physics Program, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.

Funding
National Science Foundation Award: CMMI-1537294
Cite This Article
Xiang Ni, David Purtseladze, Daria A. Smirnova, et al. (2018). Spin- and valley-polarized one-way Klein tunneling in photonic topological insulators. Science Advances, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap8802
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