{
  "id": "1409.5375",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-09-18T17:00:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-09-18T17:00:27.000Z",
  "title": "Topological Phases of Sound and Light",
  "authors": [
    "V. Peano",
    "C. Brendel",
    "M. Schmidt",
    "F. Marquardt"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "Topological states of matter are particularly robust, since they exploit global features insensitive to local perturbations. In this work, we describe how to create a Chern insulator of phonons in the solid state. The proposed implementation is based on a simple setting, a dielectric slab with a suitable pattern of holes. Its topological properties can be wholly tuned in-situ by adjusting the amplitude and frequency of a driving laser that controls the optomechanical interaction between light and sound. The resulting chiral, topologically protected phonon transport along the edges can be probed completely optically. Moreover, we identify a regime of strong mixing between photon and phonon excitations, which gives rise to a large set of different topological phases. This would be an example of a Chern insulator produced from the interaction between two physically very different particle species, photons and phonons.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-09-18T17:00:27.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "42.50.Wk",
      "42.65.Sf"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "topological phases",
      "chern insulator",
      "local perturbations",
      "solid state",
      "particle species"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031011",
      "journal": "Physical Review X",
      "year": 2015,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 5,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": "031011"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015PhRvX...5c1011P"
    }
  }
}