Dirac-Maxwell correspondence: Spin-1 bosonic topological insulator

Todd Van Mechelen; Zubin Jacob

doi:10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2018.FTu3E.4

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Terchnical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2018),
paper FTu3E.4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2018.FTu3E.4

Dirac-Maxwell correspondence: Spin-1 bosonic topological insulator

Todd Van Mechelen and Zubin Jacob

CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science 2018

San Jose, California United States
13–18 May 2018
ISBN: 978-1-943580-42-2

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Abstract

We introduce photonic Dirac monopoles and strings, proving the existence of a spin-1 bosonic topological phase for light. Fundamentally different from pseudo-spin-1/2 based photonic crystals, we discover quantized spin in symmetry protected helical edge states of continuous media.

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