Topological Moiré Polaritons.

Phys Rev Lett

Clermont INP, Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Published: December 2024

The combination of an in-plane honeycomb potential and of a photonic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) emulates a photonic or polaritonic analog of bilayer graphene. We show that modulating the SOC magnitude allows us to change the overall lattice periodicity, emulating any type of moiré-arranged bilayer graphene with unique all-optical access to the moiré band topology. We show that breaking the time-reversal symmetry by an effective exciton-polariton Zeeman splitting opens a large topological gap in the array of moiré flat bands. This gap contains one-way topological edge states whose constant group velocity makes an increasingly sharp contrast with the flattening moiré bands.

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