Floquet hybrid skin-topological effects in checkerboard lattices with large Chern numbers

Yi-Ling Zhang; Li-Wei Wang; Yang Liu; Zhao-Xian Chen; Jian-Hua Jiang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.550282

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 5, 1321(2025)

Floquet hybrid skin-topological effects in checkerboard lattices with large Chern numbers

Yi-Ling Zhang1... Li-Wei Wang2, Yang Liu1, Zhao-Xian Chen3, and Jian-Hua Jiang1,45,* |Show fewer author(s)

¹School of Physical Science and Technology, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

²School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

³National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁴School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

⁵Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou 215123, China

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