Three-dimensional topological disclination in acoustic crystals
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| author | Zhu, Zhenxiao Meng, Yan Wang, Minmiao Xi, Xiang Zhong, Yuxin Yang, Linyun Yan, Bei Chen, Jingming Wang, Ziyao Christensen, Thomas Jiang, Caigui Xu, Changqing Shang, Ce Gao, Zhen |
| author_facet | Zhu, Zhenxiao Meng, Yan Wang, Minmiao Xi, Xiang Zhong, Yuxin Yang, Linyun Yan, Bei Chen, Jingming Wang, Ziyao Christensen, Thomas Jiang, Caigui Xu, Changqing Shang, Ce Gao, Zhen |
| contents | Topological disclinations, crystallographic defects that break rotation lattice symmetry, have attracted great interest and exhibited wide applications in cavities, waveguides, and lasers. However, topological disclinations have thus far been predominantly restricted to two-dimensional (2D) systems owing to the substantial challenges in constructing such defects in three-dimensional (3D) systems and characterizing their topological features. Here we report the theoretical proposal and experimental demonstration of a 3D topological disclination that exhibits fractional (1/2) charge and zero-dimensional (0D) topological bound states, realized by cutting-and-gluing a 3D acoustic topological crystalline insulator. Using acoustic pump-probe measurements, we directly observe 0D topological disclination states at the disclination core, consistent with the tight-binding model and full-wave simulation results. Our results extend the research frontier of topological disclinations and open a new paradigm for exploring the interplay between momentum-space band topology and the real-space defect topology in 3D and higher dimensions. |
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| spellingShingle | Three-dimensional topological disclination in acoustic crystals Zhu, Zhenxiao Meng, Yan Wang, Minmiao Xi, Xiang Zhong, Yuxin Yang, Linyun Yan, Bei Chen, Jingming Wang, Ziyao Christensen, Thomas Jiang, Caigui Xu, Changqing Shang, Ce Gao, Zhen Applied Physics Topological disclinations, crystallographic defects that break rotation lattice symmetry, have attracted great interest and exhibited wide applications in cavities, waveguides, and lasers. However, topological disclinations have thus far been predominantly restricted to two-dimensional (2D) systems owing to the substantial challenges in constructing such defects in three-dimensional (3D) systems and characterizing their topological features. Here we report the theoretical proposal and experimental demonstration of a 3D topological disclination that exhibits fractional (1/2) charge and zero-dimensional (0D) topological bound states, realized by cutting-and-gluing a 3D acoustic topological crystalline insulator. Using acoustic pump-probe measurements, we directly observe 0D topological disclination states at the disclination core, consistent with the tight-binding model and full-wave simulation results. Our results extend the research frontier of topological disclinations and open a new paradigm for exploring the interplay between momentum-space band topology and the real-space defect topology in 3D and higher dimensions. |
| title | Three-dimensional topological disclination in acoustic crystals |
| topic | Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12330 |