Non-Bloch Theory for Spatiotemporal Photonic Crystals Assisted by Continuum Effective Medium

Abstract

As one indispensable type of nonreciprocal mechanism, a system with temporal modulations is intrinsically open in the physical sense and inevitably non-Hermitian, but the space and time degrees of freedom are nonseparable in a large variety of circumstances, which restrains the non-Bloch band theory to apply. Here, we investigate the spatially photonic crystals (PhCs) composed of spatiotemporal modulation materials (STMs) and homogeneous media, dubbed as the STM-PhC, wherein the spatial and temporal modulations are deliberately designed to be correlated. To bypass the difficulty of the spatiotemporal correlation, we first employ the effective medium theory to account for the dispersion of fundamental bands under the influence of Floquet sidebands. Based on the dynamical degeneracy splitting viewpoint and continuum generalized Brillouin zone condition, we then analytically give the criteria for the existence of the non-Hermitian skin effect in the STM. Assisted by developing a numerical method that embeds the plane wave expansion in the transfer matrix, we establish the non-Bloch band theory for the low-frequency Floquet bands in the STM-PhCs, in which the central is the identification of the generalized Brillouin zone. We finally delve into the topological properties, including non-Bloch Zak phases and delocalization of topologically edge states. Our work validates that effective medium assists the non-Bloch band theory applied to the STM-PhCs, which delivers a prescription to broaden the horizons of non-Bloch theory.

37 pages, 6 figures

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