Acoustic spin-Chern insulator induced by synthetic spin–orbit coupling with spin conservation breaking

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Abstract

Topologically protected surface modes of classical waves hold the promise to enable a variety of applications ranging from robust transport of energy to reliable information processing networks. However, both the route of implementing an analogue of the quantum Hall effect as well as the quantum spin Hall effect are obstructed for acoustics by the requirement of a magnetic field, or the presence of fermionic quantum statistics, respectively. Here, we construct a two-dimensional topological acoustic crystal induced by the synthetic spin-orbit coupling, a crucial ingredient of topological insulators, with spin non-conservation. Our setup allows us to free ourselves of symmetry constraints as we rely on the concept of a non-vanishing “spin” Chern number. We experimentally characterize the emerging boundary states which we show to be gapless and helical. More importantly, we observe the spin flipping transport in an H-shaped device, demonstrating evidently the spin non-conservation of the boundary states.

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Deng, W., Huang, X., Lu, J., Peri, V., Li, F., Huber, S. D., & Liu, Z. (2020). Acoustic spin-Chern insulator induced by synthetic spin–orbit coupling with spin conservation breaking. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17039-1

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