Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major research area in condensed matter physics. Many topological phases are predicted in lattices with specific engineering of electronic hopping between lattice sites. Unfortunately, the distance between neighboring sites in natural lattices (crystals) is on the order of a billionth of a meter, which makes such engineering extremely difficult. On the other hand, the photonic crystals have a much large...
Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major research area in condensed matter physics. Many topological phases are predicted in lattices with specific engineering of electronic hopping between lattice sites. Unfortunately, the distance between neighboring sites in natural lattices (crystals) is on the order of a billionth of a meter, which makes such engineering extremely difficult. On the other hand, the photonic crystals have a much large...
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