Abstract
Engineering pseudo-spin and valley degrees of freedom using quantum spin Hall and valley Hall effects has opened up remarkable possibilities for highly efficient and robust signal transport in time-reversal invariant photonic systems. Here we present a spin-valley locked photonic crystal that has distinct signs of chirality of sublattices in a honeycomb unit cell. We show that the photonic crystal has an insulating bulk dispersion and sublattice-dependent spin-valley coupled gapless edge states by exploiting a coupled dipole method and demonstrate valley-selective propagation by controlling spin state of an external dipole source. The interplay between spin, valley and sublattice shows a judicious way for one-way photon transport by using multiple degrees of freedom.
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