Materials possessing an effective zero refractive index are often associated with Dirac-like cone dispersion at the center of the Brillouin zone (BZ). It has been reported the presence of hidden symmetry-enforced triply degenerate points [nexus points (NP)] away from the Brillouin zone center with the stacked dielectric photonic crystals. The spin-1 Dirac-like dispersion in the xy plane near the nexus point suggests a method for achieving zero refractive index materials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParticular waveguide structures and refractive index distribution can lead to specified degeneracy of eigenmodes. To obtain an accurate understanding of this phenomenon, we propose a simple yet effective approach, i.e.
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