Topological phonon polaritons in one-dimensional non-Hermitian nanoparticle chains

Abstract

Topological phonon polaritons (TPhPs) are highly protected and localized edge modes that are capable of achieving a strong confinement of electromagnetic waves and immune to impurities and disorder. Here we realize TPhPs by constructing one-dimensional dimerized silicon carbide nanoparticle chains, which mimic the topological property of the well-known Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. We analytically calculate the complex band structure of such chains by taking all near-field and far-field dipole-dipole interactions into account. For longitudinal modes, we demonstrate that, despite the non-Hermiticity and breaking of the chiral symmetry, the band topology can be still characterized by the complex Zak phase, which is quantized and indicates a topological phase transition when the dimerization parameter $\beta$ changes from less than 0.5 to larger than 0.5, like the conventional Hermitian SSH model. By calculating the eigenmodes of a finite chain, we find such a dimerized chain with $\beta >0.5$ supports nontrivial topological eigenmodes localized over both of its edges, indicating the validity of the bulk-boundary correspondence. On the other hand, for transverse modes, we discover a topological phase transition by increasing the lattice constant, which is due to the presence of strong long-range far-field transverse dipole-dipole interactions decaying with the distance $r$ as $1/r$ for an infinitely long chain. However, we surprisingly find the emergence of non-Hermitian skin effect in a finite chain, which leads to the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence. Furthermore, by incorporating the effect of localized bulk eigenmodes and proposing a modified complex Zak phase for a finite lattice, we still recover the topological behavior of the conventional SSH model. We also demonstrate the excitation of topological phonon polaritons and show their enhancement to the photonic LDOS.

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