Abstract
Unconventional Weyl points with topological charges higher than 1 can transform into various complex unconventional Weyl exceptional contours under non-Hermitian perturbations. However, theoretical studies of these exceptional contours have been limited to tight-binding models. Here, we propose to realize unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in photonic continua—non-Hermitian anisotropic chiral plasma, based on ab initio calculation by Maxwell’s equations. By perturbing in-plane permittivity, an unconventional Weyl point can transform into a quadratic Weyl exceptional ring, a type I Weyl exceptional chain with one chain point, a type II Weyl exceptional chain with two chain points, or other forms. Realistic metamaterials with effective constitutive parameters are proposed to implement these unconventional Weyl exceptional contours. Our work paves a way toward exploration of exotic physics of unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in non-Hermitian topological photonic continua.
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1. INTRODUCTION
A photonic Weyl point (WP) [1–14] is the linear point crossing of two bands in three-dimensional (3D) momentum space. As the sources or drains of the Berry flux with (or , where is the Chern number) topological charges, WPs are characterized by the helicoid surface states and the discontinuous Fermi arcs at surface boundaries of photonic media [1–4,6,7]. Later studies have shown the charge-1 WP belongs to a big family; others include but are not limited to quadratic Weyl points (QWPs, ) [8,15–19], spin-1 WPs () [17,20–22], charge-2 Dirac points () [17,20–22], triple WPs () [8,23], and quadruple WPs () [24,25]. Members with charges in the family are generally dubbed the unconventional WPs.
The photonic WPs (conventional and unconventional) can be realized in periodic, precisely engineered, artificial structures, such as photonic crystals [5] and optical waveguide arrays [10], or in photonic continua, such as magnetized semiconductors [13] and metamaterials [12]. In comparison to the periodic structures, the electrodynamics of continua is much simpler, which significantly facilitates gaining deeper physical insights into topological photonics. Besides, many interesting phenomena associated with photonic Weyl media have been observed, including chiral zero modes [26], robust surface states [8,9], and topological self-collimations [19].
The recent rapid development of the non-Hermitian topological band theory [27–29] has brought researchers’ attentions to the non-Hermitian generalizations of photonic WPs. For example, under non-Hermitian perturbations, a conventional WP can transform into a Weyl exceptional ring (WER), along which the eigenmodes of two degenerate bands coalesce into one, forming a ring of exceptional points [28]. Such WERs are proposed to exist in periodic structures decorated with gain or loss (e.g., non-Hermitian photonic crystals [30] and non-Hermitian waveguide arrays [31]), and non-Hermitian continua (e.g., lossy magnetized plasma) [32,33]. Interestingly, the WER preserves the topological charge as well as the surface-wave Fermi arcs [29,32]. Besides, recent theoretical works have suggested that the unconventional WP, under non-Hermitian perturbations, can transform into various complex one-dimensional closed exceptional contours, with the topological charges preserved [29]. Several tight-binding models have been proposed to implement those unconventional exceptional contours [29,34]. However, in realistic photonic media, such as photonic crystals and metamaterials, the modes are usually not tightly bound to any site; the band structures of photonic crystals have multiple Bragg scattering in most cases [35]. Therefore, it is important to establish a framework to study the unconventional Weyl exceptional contours beyond the tight-binding models, especially in the context of photonics.
Here, we study various unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in photonic continua—non-Hermitian chiral plasma, based on the first-principle Maxwell’s equations. Interestingly, by considering various perturbations to the in-plane permittivity, including non-Hermitian biaxial perturbations, Hermitian biaxial perturbations, and non-Hermitian non-reciprocal perturbations, we obtain a 3D mapping to sketch all the Hermitian/non-Hermitian generalizations of an unconventional WP and, more specifically, a QWP. As shown in Fig. 1, we systematically identify various forms of unconventional Weyl exceptional contours, including the quadratic Weyl exceptional rings (QWERs), two separated WERs, and the Weyl exceptional chains (WECs), denoted by the red and grey regions and the critical boundary in between, respectively. Among them, we focus on three special cases that are pinned in certain planes by the pseudo-parity-time (pseudo-PT) symmetry, which are in-plane QWERs, type I WECs with one chain point, and type II WECs with two chain points, respectively, as underlined in Fig. 1. To implement the above three cases, we then propose realistic metamaterials with effective constitutive parameters.
2. QUADRATIC WEYL POINT IN HERMITIAN ANISOTROPIC CHIRAL PLASMA
To realize unconventional Weyl exceptional contours, we start by constructing a QWP, which is at the origin of the 3D parameter space (see Fig. 1). We consider a piece of plasma continua with the in-plane (in the xOy plane) conductivity described by the lossless Drude model ( is the plasma frequency) and consider chirality [36] to break all mirror symmetries [37]. Then, using the auxiliary field method [38–40], we have
where , , and are permittivity, permeability, and chirality tensors, respectively. , , and are electric field, magnetic field, and current density, respectively. is a matrix denoting in-plane conductivity, i.e., .From Eq. (1) we can qualitatively calculate the photonic bands of the continua. Without losing the generality, we set and , and for the continua. As a result in Fig. 2(a), a QWP exists at the point at the modified plasma frequency . As it named, the in-plane dispersion is quadratic, indicating that the photon is effectively massive due to the sufficient light–matter interaction with the electronic gas. The calculation of topological charge also proves the QWP: we enclose the point by a small sphere in momentum space and calculate Wilson loops for different polar angles of the sphere. As shown in Fig. 2(b), as the angle varies from 0 to , the accumulated phase is for the upper band of the point degeneracy (in red), indicating for (or for ), which is consistent with our understanding of the QWP.
3. UNCONVENTIONAL WEYL EXCEPTIONAL CONTOURS IN NON-HERMITIAN ANISOTROPIC CHIRAL PLASMA
With the Hermitian QWP on hand, we still need a strategy to break the hermiticity for the Weyl exceptional contours. Motivated by Ref. [41], we use the perturbative method to expand the band structure of QWP in the local momentum space and see the variation of eigenfrequencies with the constitutive parameters. We rewrite Eq. (1) as
and set for simplicity. Due to the in-plane longitudinality of the wave functions at the QWP (), we neglect this component in Eq. (2). By perturbing both the wave vector and the permittivity tensor, the local Hamiltonian around the plasma frequency is (see more detail in Appendix A) where is the (zeroth-order) perturbation of the in-plane permittivity under Cartesian coordinates, and is the local Hamiltonian of the QWP, i.e., where , , 2, 3 are the Pauli matrices, and gives the sign of chirality.Equation (3) bridges the local Hamiltonian and the constitutive parameters of the continua; by tuning the in-plane permittivity, we perturb the local Hamiltonian to turn the QWP into various quadratic Weyl exceptional contours. The perturbation term can be decomposed by the four Pauli matrices with complex coefficients, denoted as , where , 1, 2, 3, and is complex. Therefore, there are eight degrees of freedom in total, which we are going to discuss in the following text.
A. Hermitian Perturbations to the In-Plane Permittivity
To analyze the Hermitian perturbations to the QWP, we refer to the idea of topological photonics, which treats QWP as the superposition of two WPs pinned by the rotational symmetry [23,42]. Since the WP is robust against any Hermitian perturbation, there are no other ways of evolution than to split the QWP into two WPs. More specifically, the term ( is a positive real number) performs a trivial perturbation that simply changes the frequency of QWP. The term shifts the QWP along the direction, corresponding to the gyrotropic material with a magnetic axis in the direction that breaks the time-reversal () symmetry. This partially explains why the QWP at the point is missing in previous works on magnetized plasmas [32,33]. As for the term (or term, which is equivalent by rotation along the axis), which is a biaxial anisotropic one that breaks the continuous rotational symmetry along the direction () down to twofold rotational symmetry , the QWP splits into two in-plane WPs as shown in Fig. 3(a).
B. Non-Hermitian Perturbations to the In-Plane Permittivity
It has been known that the WER is the non-Hermitian generalization of a WP [28], the QWP is the superposition of two identical WPs [23], and multiple WERs can touch and emerge into one WER [29]. In the following, we will show that the non-Hermitian generalization of a QWP can be a single exceptional ring or two exceptional rings with various connections.
We start the analysis with the term that corresponds to the addition of an isotropic lossy term onto the permittivity. The lossy term keeps the degeneracy of the QWP, even though the eigenfrequency is complex. This can be understood from the lossy Drude model, which does not lead to exceptional contours at the plasma frequency.
For the term, as shown in Fig. 3(b), the two WPs inside the QWP expand into two identical WERs to form a QWER. Moreover, we find the symmetry acts as a pseudo-PT symmetry in the plane. Given a mode labelled with , the symmetry maps the mode into another mode labeled with , while the symmetry into . Thus, at the plane, together maps to , which is identical to the PT symmetry (we thus refer to it as the pseudo-PT symmetry hereafter). Therefore, modes in the in-plane part of the band are either in an exact-pseudo-PT phase where eigenfrequencies are all real numbers, or in a broken-pseudo-PT phase where bands are coupled in pairs with conjugate eigenfrequencies; the QWER lies at the boundary between two phases. As shown in Fig. 3(b), the red circle is the exceptional ring, and the red area is of broken-pseudo-PT phase.
For the term (or the term), as shown in Fig. 3(c), the QWP transforms into two orthogonal WERs, which cross with each other at two points along the axis. We thus refer to it as the type II WEC. symmetry no longer exists for this material; instead are the and the symmetries acting as pseudo-PT symmetries that pin the two WERs in the plane and the plane, respectively. Moreover, two WERs are related by , so we only plot one of them in Fig. 3(c).
C. Unconventional Weyl Exceptional Contours in the In-Plane Permittivity Parameter Space
Above, we have discussed all eight types of perturbations. Only three of them lead to nontrivial deformations, i.e., , , and , where and give the real and imaginary parts of the input, respectively, as shown in Table 1. The rest of the perturbations merely shift, rotate, or tilt the contour that does not change the connection. Therefore, we can study the unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in a 3D parameter space corresponding to the in-plane permittivity tensor. Recalling Fig. 1, besides the exceptional contours along the three axes and the original point, we calculate the exceptional contours for the remaining part of the space and pick out three intermediate states between every two axes to depict how the exceptional contour evolves as the in-plane permittivity varies. Depending on whether the QWER splits into two WERs or not [ or ], the space can be divided into two regions (gray and red). At the critical boundary [], two WERs are critically connected to form the WEC.
Besides the type II WEC, we find another interesting case on the boundary, namely, the type I WEC, where the two WERs are in the same plane (pinned by ) with only one chain point at the point (pinned by ) as shown in Fig. 3(d) and the fifth column in Table 1. Due to the same strength of perturbation by and , the perturbation term is upper-triangular, which is the sign of exceptional structures. Consequently, the in-plane permittivity is exceptional with coalesced eigenmodes at the chain point at the point. In a broader sense, the chain point is pinned at the point if and only if
where are complex numbers that should not be zero simultaneously, otherwise, the perturbation term vanishes.4. METAMATERIAL DESIGN TO ACHIEVE THE UNCONVENTIONAL WEYL EXCEPTIONAL CONTOURS
In the following, we design a metamaterial structure to implement the QWP, and then we add perturbations to the background permittivity to achieve the unconventional Weyl exceptional contours. As shown in Fig. 4(a), the unit cell is cuboid with periods , along the , , and directions, respectively. In each unit cell, there is a metallic resonant structure made with 0.7 mm thickness rods. The structure can be considered as the deformation of two in-plane split-ring resonators, described by the Drude–Lorentz model with a resonant frequency at about 6.3 GHz. Besides, the slits of the split-ring resonators are offset from the center point of the skeleton. In doing so, all mirror symmetries are broken, and the chirality is introduced. Here, the structural parameters are , , , and . The spatial group of the unit cell is No. 89 (). Suppose the background material has and , and then at the point (), the third and the fourth bands intersect as a QWP. Note that the QWP has been experimentally realized at microwave [19] and infrared frequencies [15].
Then, by tuning the in-plane permittivity of the background material, different exceptional contours emerge as predicted. As shown in Fig. 4(b), and , i.e., the type, and thus the QWP expands into a QWER. Due to the symmetry, the contour is not a perfect circle. By breaking the and symmetries, the magnetic spatial group falls down to No. 75.2 ().
As shown in Fig. 4(c), if we apply to the background media, i.e., the type, the QWP turns into a type II WEC. Due to the strong anisotropy, the chain is greatly pressed along the direction. The magnetic spatial group is No. 89.91 ().
As shown in Fig. 4(d), as and , the QWP turns into a type I WEC that is pinned by the symmetry with chain point at the point. The in-plane permittivity is slightly biased from upper-triangular, because is comparable to or (the length of the Brillouin zone), and the nonlocal effect more or less induces higher-order dispersions that twist the photonic bands. The effect is negligible as the size of the Brillouin zone is finite. The magnetic spatial group is No. 3.2 ().
Then, we fit the bulk bands of the metamaterials by the continua model. As shown in Figs. 4(b)–4(d), in the vicinity of the exceptional contours, we plot the fitting results by dashed curves, with constitutive parameters and . Due to the magnetic resonance of the split-ring resonator, the permeability is greater than 1, i.e., , . The chirality is . One can observe that different perturbations lead to different off-diagonal elements of the effective permittivity tensor. Here, we have for the QWER, for the type II WEC, and for the type I WEC.
At last, we note that all variants of QWP preserve the topological charge as verified by our first-principles calculations as shown in Appendix B.
5. DISCUSSION
We have thus theoretically identified various unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in the non-Hermitian photonic continua, including the QWER, the type I WEC with one chain point, and the type II WEC with two chain points. Based on the Maxwell’s equations and the perturbative method, we bridge the local Hamiltonian of unconventional Weyl exceptional contours with the constitutive parameters of the non-Hermitian photonic continua. Several metamaterials with effective constitutive parameters have been designed to implement the unconventional Weyl exceptional contours. Besides, it would be interesting to investigate the directional amplification based on the QWER with broken hermiticity and reciprocity while preserving the symmetry [43], and the arbitrary gain/loss control of light polarization based on the WEC with complex symmetric anisotropic permittivity [44]. With the recent rapid development in photonic metamaterials [45–47], it is possible to experimentally implement those unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in the future. The contours as well as the associated double surface Fermi arcs (see Appendix B) should be experimentally observable [31,48], which can distinguish the quadratic Weyl exceptional contours from their Hermitian counterpart. Finally, our work sheds light on the exploration of exotic physics of unconventional Weyl exceptional contours in non-Hermitian topological photonic continua, such as non-Hermitian skin effect [49].
APPENDIX A: INTUITIVE DERIVATION ON THE LOCAL HAMILTONIAN OF THE QUADRATIC WEYL POINT AND THE PERTURBATION BY THE PERMITTIVITY
The perturbed local Hamiltonian provides a brief formula to estimate the variation of photonic bands caused by the variation of constitutive parameters [41]. In our case, the local Hamiltonian is an operator whose eigenvalues are the small variations of angular frequencies in the vicinity of at the point. To derive the local Hamiltonian of the quadratic Weyl point, we first write down Maxwell’s equations with the auxiliary field
In a homogeneous material, . Suppose and , and move the chirality term to the left side:
Rewrite Eq. (A2) in the form of . Then doubling the operator for to decouple the electric field and the magnetic field. Picking out the electric part, we have
As , it is Eq. (2) in the main text.
If , then at the point around there is a quadratic Weyl point, whose electric field has no out-of-plane component, so we cancel ,
where the subscript denotes the field and the tensor with it are in-plane.To derive the local Hamiltonian, supposing a small variation of angular frequency from , we have
In the vicinity of the point, the line-crossed term is small. By neglecting this term and other coefficients that do not affect the topological properties, we have the local Hamiltonian of the quadratic Weyl point
which is Eq. (4) in the main text.As the perturbation term is added to the permittivity, the variation of on the right side of Eq. (A4) is , where the line-crossed term is nonzero. Following the same procedure as above and neglecting some coefficients, we have
which leads to Eq. (3) in the main text.Our intuitive derivation is equivalent to the rigorous degenerate-state perturbative method by auxiliary field method with Maxwell’s equations [50].
APPENDIX B: TOPOLOGICAL CHARGE AND FERMI ARCS OF THE QWP AND ITS VARIANTS IN METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES
In this section, we perform first-principles calculations of the metamaterial model to obtain the topological charges and the Fermi arcs of the QWP and its non-Hermitian variants.
We first calculate the Chern numbers by the Wilson-loop method. In each case, we enclose the QWP or the quadratic Weyl exceptional contours by a sphere and calculate the Berry phases on different latitude circles. As the polar angle ranges from 0 to , the evolutions of Berry phases are shown in Fig. 5. The accumulated Berry phases are for all four cases, indicating the topological charge .
Next, we calculate the surface Fermi arcs emanating from the QWP and its variants. We note that the QWP in Fig. 4 is overlapped with the other trivial bands when projected to a plane, leading to the difficulty to observe surface Fermi arcs. Alternatively, we choose another structure proposed by us in Ref. [19], which also features a QWP with at the point. Based on the model in Ref. [19], we obtain the projected surface band structure along a closed curve enclosing the point as shown in Fig. 6. The two red lines in each panel indicate the two surface Fermi arcs emanating from either the QWP or its non-Hermitian variants.
Funding
Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; National Natural Science Foundation of China (11961141010, 61625502, 61975176, U19A2054).
Disclosures
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Data Availability
Data underlying the results presented in this paper are not publicly available at this time but may be obtained from the authors upon reasonable request.
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