Photonic Dirac Nodal Line Semimetals Realized by Hyper-crystal

Abstract

Recently, the gapless Dirac/Weyl nodal semimetals with linear dispersion and topologically protected modes degeneracy are rapidly growing frontiers of topological physics. Especially, type-I, type-II, and critical type-III nodal semimetals are discovered according to the tilt angles of the Dirac/Weyl cones. Here, by introducing hyperbolic metamaterials into one-dimensional photonic crystals, we design the "hyper-crystal" and study the photonic four-fold degenerate Dirac nodal line semimetals (DNLSs) with two types of perpendicularly polarized waves. Moreover, the flexibly controlled photonic DNLSs using the phase compensation effect of hyperbolic dispersion are studied. Our results not only demonstrate a new platform to realize the various photonic DNLSs, where the optical polarization plays the role of electron spin in electronic DNLSs, but also may pave a novel way to explore the abundant Dirac/Weyl physics in the simple classical wave systems.

arXiv comment31 pages, 14 figures

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