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    • Advanced Photonics
    • Vol. 3, Issue 5, 056001 (2021)
    Nonlinear topological valley Hall edge states arising from type-II Dirac cones | Article Video
    Hua Zhong1,†, Shiqi Xia2, Yiqi Zhang1,*, Yongdong Li1..., Daohong Song2,*, Chunliang Liu1 and Zhigang Chen2,3,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Xi’an Jiaotong University, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an, China
  • 2Nankai University, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Tianjin, China
  • 3San Francisco State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco, California, USA
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.3.5.056001 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hua Zhong, Shiqi Xia, Yiqi Zhang, Yongdong Li, Daohong Song, Chunliang Liu, Zhigang Chen, "Nonlinear topological valley Hall edge states arising from type-II Dirac cones," Adv. Photon. 3, 056001 (2021) Copy Citation Text show less
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