Topologically Protected States in One-Dimensional Systems

Download or read book Topologically Protected States in One-Dimensional Systems written by Charles Fefferman and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors study a class of periodic Schrodinger operators, which in distinguished cases can be proved to have linear band-crossings or ``Dirac points''. They then show that the introduction of an ``edge'', via adiabatic modulation of these periodic potentials by a domain wall, results in the bifurcation of spatially localized ``edge states''. These bound states are associated with the topologically protected zero-energy mode of an asymptotic one-dimensional Dirac operator. The authors' model captures many aspects of the phenomenon of topologically protected edge states for two-dimensional bulk structures such as the honeycomb structure of graphene. The states the authors construct can be realized as highly robust TM-electromagnetic modes for a class of photonic waveguides with a phase-defect.