Highly degenerate photonic flat bands arising from complete graph configurations
arXiv:1907.00333 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.100.043841
Abstract
Inspired by complete graph theory, we demonstrate that a metallic claw "meta-atom" structure can carry a high number of nearly degenerate resonant modes. A photonic meta-crystal composing of a lattice of such meta-atoms exhibits a large number of flat bands that are squeezed into a narrow frequency window, and these flat bands can be designed to locate in a wide complete 3D bandgap. The degeneracy dimension (Nf) of the flat bands is determined by the number of branches (Nb) of the metallic claw with Nf=Nb-3, which is geometrically related to the complete graph theory. Different from those flat bands emerging from special lattice arrangements (e.g., Kagome lattice), the isolated flat bands here are insensitive to lattice perturbations. The proposed mechanism offers a new platform for realizing various dispersion-less phenomena and a new paradigm to realize high density of states and spectra compressing.
arXiv comment16 pages, 4 figures
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