https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-023-00503-4
Regular Article - Solid State and Materials
Dual-band valley-protected topological edge states in graphene-like phononic crystals with waveguide
1
School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, 230009, Hefei, China
2
School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001, Harbin, China
Received:
9
December
2022
Accepted:
6
March
2023
Published online:
31
March
2023
Since valley was introduced into phononic crystals, it has promoted far-reaching developments in topologically protected acoustic transmission. However, in the novel research field of valley-Hall phononic topological insulators, most researchers only focus on valley-protected edge state with a single working frequency band. Here, we demonstrate dual-band valley-protected topological edge states in a graphene-like two-dimensional phononic crystal, which consists of columnar air cavities and rigid scatters. It is demonstrated that energy band inversion happens and a gap can be opened at the two Dirac cones at the K (K') symmetry points of the Brillouin zone by tuning the radius differences between adjacent columnar air cavities. In addition, we demonstrate the presence of dual-band topologically protected edge states with properties like suppressed back-scattering, one-way transmission, and sharp bend resistance. In these contexts, beam splitting with dual-band is achieved by combining valley vortex states with opposite chirality. Our work may provide a practical method for solving high-efficiency and high-capacity multi-channel acoustic communication in fluid media.
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