Optical vortex beams contain non-diffracting meronic spin defects consisting of an undefined-spin point defect enclosed by a half-sphere meron texture in transverse spin.
Mata-Cervera, D
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Numerical demonstration that valley edge states in photonic crystals support propagating, valley-locked optical spin merons as eigenstates with topological protection against defects.
Skyrmion number in superposed vortex beams equals max(ℓ2, ℓ1) under small perturbations rather than ℓ2 - ℓ1.
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Valley-locked Optical Spin Merons in Valley Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Numerical demonstration that valley edge states in photonic crystals support propagating, valley-locked optical spin merons as eigenstates with topological protection against defects.
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Unfolding unstable skyrmionic polarization textures
Skyrmion number in superposed vortex beams equals max(ℓ2, ℓ1) under small perturbations rather than ℓ2 - ℓ1.