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Topological nature in different areas of physics and electronics has often been characterized and controlled through topological invariants depending on the global properties of the material. The validity of bulk-edge correspondence and symmetry-related topological invariants has been extended to non-Hermitian systems. Correspondingly, the value of geometric phases, such as the Pancharatnam-Berry or Zak phases, under the adiabatic quantum deformation process in the presence of non-Hermitian conditions, are now of significant interest. Here, we explicitly calculate the Zak phases of one-dimensional topological nanobeams that sustain guided-mode resonances, which lead to energy leakage to a continuum state. The retrieved Zak phases show as zero for trivial and as pi for nontrivial photonic crystals, respectively, which ensures bulk-edge correspondence is still valid for certain non-Hermitian conditions.
Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Benjamin Apffel
Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Zhechen Zhang, Pierre Delplace