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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 5, 056001(2021)

Nonlinear topological valley Hall edge states arising from type-II Dirac cones Article Video

Hua Zhong1、†, Shiqi Xia2, Yiqi Zhang1、*, Yongdong Li1, Daohong Song2、*, Chunliang Liu1, and Zhigang Chen2,3、*
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  • 1Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an, China
  • 2Nankai University, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Tianjin, China
  • 3San Francisco State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco, California, USA
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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 31, 2021

    Accepted: Sep. 29, 2021

    Posted: Oct. 8, 2021

    Published Online: Oct. 26, 2021

    The Author Email: Zhang Yiqi (zhangyiqi@xjtu.edu.cn), Song Daohong (songdaohong@nankai.edu.cn), Chen Zhigang (zhigang@sfsu.edu)

    DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.5.056001

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