How to detect the pseudospin-1/2 Berry phase in a photonic crystal with a Dirac spectrum

Details How to detect the pseudospin-1/2 Berry phase in a photonic crystal with a Dirac spectrum How to detect the pseudospin-1/2 Berry phase in a photonic crystal with a Dirac spectrum

2008-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/0803.1581v2

Phys. Rev. B 78, 045122 (2008)

Physics

Optics

6 pages, 6 figures; v2: section added, figure added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.045122

We propose a method to detect the geometric phase produced by the Dirac-type band structure of a triangular-lattice photonic crystal. The spectrum is known to have a conical singularity (= Dirac point) with a pair of nearly degenerate modes near that singularity described by a spin-1/2 degree of freedom (= pseudospin). The geometric Berry phase acquired upon rotation of the pseudospin is in general obscured by a large and unspecified dynamical phase. We use the analogy with graphene to show how complementary media can eliminate the dynamical phase. A transmission minimum results as a direct consequence of the geometric phase shift of pi acquired by rotation of the pseudospin over 360 degrees around a perpendicular axis. We support our analytical theory based on the Dirac equation by a numerical solution of the full Maxwell equations.

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