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Topological lattices lit at the corners

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Higher-order topological states that are robust against certain classes of disorder and pinned to lattice corners are now observed in photonics platforms.

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Fig. 1: Topologically protected edge and corner states.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Şahin K. Özdemir

  2. Department of Physics, and Henes Center for Quantum Phenomena, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Ramy El-Ganainy

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Özdemir, Ş.K., El-Ganainy, R. Topological lattices lit at the corners. Nat. Photonics 13, 660–662 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0523-2

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