Topological Edge Solitons in Polaritonic Lattice

2017/08/25 by Gulevich, D. R., Yudin, D., Skryabin, D. V. +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.07736

Abstract

We study discrete nonlinear edge excitations of polaritonic kagome lattice. We show that when nontrivial topological phase of polaritons is realized, the kagome lattice permits propagation of bright solitons formed from topological edge states.

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