Abstract
We introduce photonic Dirac monopoles and strings, proving the existence of a spin-1 bosonic topological phase for light. Fundamentally different from pseudo-spin-1/2 based photonic crystals, we discover quantized spin in symmetry protected helical edge states of continuous media.
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