Possible realization of directional optical waveguides in photonic crystals with broken time-reversal symmetry.

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Summary

It is shown how, in principle, to construct analogs of quantum Hall edge states in "photonic crystals" made with nonreciprocal (Faraday-effect) media that form "one-way waveguides" that allow electromagnetic energy to flow in one direction only.

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2005-03-23
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T-symmetry, Realization (probability), Photonic crystal, Physics, Symmetry (geometry)

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