Elastic phononic topological plate with edge and corner sates based on pseudospin-valley-coupling
- 23 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 53 (39), 395304
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab94e2
Abstract
Topologically protected gapless edge states are phases of quantum matter which behave as massless Dirac fermions, immunizing against disorders and continuous perturbations. Recently, a new class of topological insulators (TIs) with topological corner states have been theoretically predicted in electric systems, and experimentally realized in two-dimensional (2D) mechanical and electromagnetic systems, electrical circuits, optical and sonic crystals, and elastic phononic plates. Here, we demonstrate a pseudospin-valley-coupled phononic TI, which simultaneously exhibits gapped edge states and topological corner states. Pseudospin-orbit coupling edge states and valley-polarized edge state are respectively induced by the lattice deformation and the symmetry breaking. When both of them coexist, these topological edge states will be greatly gapped and the topological corner state emerges. Under direct field measurements, the robust edge propagation behaving as an elastic waveguide and the topological corner mode working as a robust localized resonance are experimentally confirmed. The pseudospin-valley coupling in our phononic TIs can be well-controlled which provides a reconfigurable platform for the multiple edge and corner states, and exhibits well applications in the topological elastic energy recovery and the highly sensitive sensing.Funding Information
- Joint Fund of Ministry of Education for Equipment Pre-Research (6141A02033216)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51621004)
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