Friday, April 26, 2013

1304.6911 (Julia M. Zeuner et al.)

Edge states protected by chiral symmetry in disordered photonic graphene    [PDF]

Julia M. Zeuner, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit
We experimentally investigate the impact of uncorrelated composite and structural disorder in photonic graphene. We find that in case of structural disorder not only chiral symmetry, but also the vanishing of the density of states at zero energy is preserved. This is in contrast to composite disorder, where chiral symmetry as well as the vanishing of the density of states are destroyed. Our observations are experimentally proven by exciting edge states at the bearded edge in disordered photonic graphene.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6911

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