Core-shell particles as building blocks for systems with high duality symmetry

Abstract

Material electromagnetic duality symmetry requires a system to have equal electric and magnetic responses. Electromagnetic duality enables technologically important effects like artificial optical activity and zero back-scattering, is a requirement for metamaterials in transformation optics, Huygens wave-front control, and maximal electromagnetic chirality, and appears in topological photonic systems. Intrinsically dual materials that meet the duality conditions at the level of the constitutive relations do not exist in many frequency bands. Nevertheless, discrete objects like metallic helices and homogeneous dielectric spheres can be engineered to approximate the dual behavior. The discrete objects can then be used as building blocks with the objective of obtaining composite systems with high duality symmetry. Here, we exploit the extra degrees of freedom of a core-shell dielectric sphere to obtain a particle whose duality symmetry is more than one order of magnitude better than previously reported non-magnetic objects. We show that the improvement is transferred onto the duality symmetry of composite objects when the core-shell particle is used as a building block instead of homogeneous spheres.

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