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Valley-Hall interface modes persist after a 120-degree bend for all frequencies in the bulk gap with non-vanishing group velocity, except a finite exceptional set.

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load-bearing objection The paper proves valley-Hall interface modes survive a 2π/3 bend except at finitely many frequencies where group velocity vanishes.

arxiv 2605.29485 v1 pith:ZRZDIJZP submitted 2026-05-28 math-ph math.APmath.MPmath.SP

Robustness of Valley-Hall Interface Modes Against Sharp Bending

Habib Ammari , Jiayu Qiu This is my paper
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keywords valley-Hall effectinterface modesbending robustnessperiodic mediaspectral gapcorner modesband inversiontopological protection
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The paper shows that interface modes created by band inversion across a straight periodic interface continue to exist and propagate when the interface is bent at an angle of 2π/3. These modes remain localized near the interface and travel along it inside the bulk spectral gap, provided the group velocity is nonzero, apart from finitely many exceptional frequencies. Corner-localized modes, when present, are restricted to those exceptional frequencies and occur with finite multiplicity. A sympathetic reader cares because the result supplies the first rigorous justification for why valley-Hall waveguides can incorporate sharp turns without losing their guiding property at generic frequencies.

Core claim

When the interface is bent through an angle of 2π/3, the interface modes persist for every frequency in the bulk spectral gap where the group velocity is non-vanishing, except for a finite exceptional set. Corner-localized modes, if they occur, can appear only at these exceptional frequencies and have finite multiplicity.

What carries the argument

Spectral analysis of the bent-interface operator applied to modes generated by band inversion across the straight interface.

Load-bearing premise

Band inversion across a straight interface produces interface modes inside the bulk spectral gap.

What would settle it

Observation of a frequency inside the bulk gap with nonzero group velocity at which the interface mode either disappears or scatters after the 2π/3 bend, or detection of infinitely many such exceptional frequencies.

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If this is right

  • Interface modes propagate along the bent path at generic frequencies without backscattering into the bulk.
  • The bulk spectral gap continues to protect the localized states after bending.
  • Exceptional frequencies form an isolated finite set.
  • Any corner-localized modes are confined to the exceptional frequencies and have finite multiplicity.

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  • Waveguide designs based on valley-Hall interfaces can include 120-degree corners while preserving transmission for almost all operating frequencies.
  • The same bending analysis may apply to other angles or to interfaces formed by different topological invariants.
  • Numerical computation of the dispersion relation along the bent path could locate the exceptional frequencies explicitly.
  • The finite-multiplicity result limits the number of trapped states that could appear at corners in physical realizations.

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Summary. The manuscript proves that valley-Hall interface modes, which arise from band inversion across a straight interface in a periodic medium and propagate inside the bulk spectral gap, persist when the interface is bent through an angle of 2π/3. These modes exist for every frequency in the gap at which the group velocity is non-vanishing, except for a finite exceptional set. Corner-localized modes, if they occur, can appear only at these exceptional frequencies and have finite multiplicity. The analysis treats the straight-interface construction as standard and focuses on the corner scattering problem at the bend; the result is presented as the first rigorous mathematical theory of bending immunity for such modes.

Significance. If the result holds, the work supplies the first rigorous justification for the bending immunity of valley-Hall modes, a property central to applications in topological photonics and acoustics. The precise characterization of the exceptional set (tied to vanishing group velocity) and the finite-multiplicity bound on corner modes give a complete and usable picture that distinguishes the generic case from possible defects. Conditioning the bending analysis on the established straight-interface band-inversion phenomenon is methodologically sound and allows the novel contribution to be isolated to the corner problem.

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  1. [§1] §1: the phrase 'well known' for the straight-interface band-inversion result should be accompanied by one or two explicit citations to the functional-analytic constructions (e.g., the limiting absorption principle or the analytic continuation of the dispersion relation) that are invoked later in the bent-geometry analysis.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2, around the definition of the exceptional set: the finiteness argument would be clearer if the authors explicitly relate the exceptional frequencies to the zeros of a scattering coefficient or a determinant that is shown to be analytic and not identically zero.
  3. Notation: the symbol for the bent-interface operator should be introduced once with a clear comparison to the straight-interface operator to avoid any ambiguity when the corner scattering problem is formulated.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our manuscript, the clear summary of our main results on the persistence of valley-Hall interface modes under 2π/3 bends, and the recommendation for minor revision. The report correctly identifies the novelty in providing the first rigorous justification for bending immunity, with the exceptional set tied to vanishing group velocity and the finite-multiplicity bound on corner modes. No specific major comments were listed in the report.

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The paper explicitly treats the existence of straight-interface modes via band inversion as a well-known external fact and derives the bending persistence result as a new theorem conditional on that fact plus regularity assumptions. No step in the provided abstract or structure reduces a claimed prediction or uniqueness result to a fitted parameter, self-citation chain, or definitional tautology within the paper itself. The central claim remains independent of its inputs.

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The central claim rests on the standard assumption of band inversion at a straight interface (domain_assumption) and on the mathematical framework of periodic media and spectral gaps (standard_math). No free parameters or invented entities are visible in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Band inversion across a straight interface in a periodic medium produces interface modes localized near the interface and propagating inside the bulk spectral gap.
    Explicitly invoked in the first sentence of the abstract as 'well known'.

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It is well known that band inversion across a straight interface in a periodic medium gives rise to interface modes that are localized near the interface and propagate along it inside the bulk spectral gap. This phenomenon constitutes the key mechanism underlying the valley-Hall effect. In this paper, we address the long-standing problem of the robustness of such interface modes. We prove that, when the interface is bent through an angle of $\frac{2\pi}{3}$, the interface modes persist for every frequency in the bulk spectral gap where the group velocity is non-vanishing, except for a finite exceptional set. We also show that corner-localized modes, if they occur, can appear only at these exceptional frequencies and have finite multiplicity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first rigorous mathematical theory of the bending immunity of valley-Hall interface modes.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Unperturbed lattice and band structure. The inversion symmetry leads to the conic intersection between the first two bands. where the extension map Ξ+ : H 1 2 (Γ) → H1 (S) satisfies γ +Ξ + = 1 H 1 2 (Γ). If in addition u ∈ H2 y , then ∂ + ν,cu = γ +(ν · c∇u). The left conormal derivative ∂ − ν,c is defined similarly. When ∂ + ν,cu = ∂ − ν,cu, it will be simply denoted as ∂ν,cu. 2. Setup and Main Results We… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Perturbed periodic structure. As shown in (a) and (b), both pertur￾bations break the inversion symmetry, and hence, lift the spectral degeneracy at the Dirac point. Importantly, as indicated in (c), these two perturbations have distinct effects on the local eigenspace: near the Dirac point, the Floquet￾Bloch eigenmode of the upper band associated with the structure (a) satisfies Ru a+b 2,K = τua+b 2,K (mar… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Underlying structure described by L E and its spectrum. In (b), the shadowed area refers to the bulk spectrum, while the blue curve represents the in-gap interface eigenvalue, as stated in Theorem 2.6. Note that Assumption 2.7 is satisfied in the case depicted in (b): first, the interface eigenvalue has non-vanishing derivative in the interval I0, and on the other hand, the interface eigenvalue is not abso… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The 2π 3 −bended interface model. The whole plane is splitted into two half-planes, i.e., ΩL and ΩR, separated by an (imaginary) interface Γ. In ΩL, the underlying structure is same as the one described by L E, while the structure in ΩR is obtained by a 2π 3 −rotation. We aim to show that the in-gap interface eigenvalues in Theorem 2.6 persist in the spectrum of L bend. To do that, we require more informat… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Wave propagation in the bended-interface structure. The wavy lines represent propagating waves in the medium, while the curvy solid arrows refer to the evanescent waves localized near the corner. κ − κ + κ I0 (a) κ − κ + κ I0 (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Possible extension of Assumption 2.7. assume λ E(κ) is analytic within the region of interest I0, instead of Assumption 2.7(i), for which one just needs to slightly enlarge the exceptional set of frequencies I exc 0 to include the critical frequencies (which are still finite). However, we maintain Assumption 2.7(i) because it is a typical case for the band structure of the valley Hall effect. Remark 2.10. … view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Various bending-interface structures. multiple-bending interface, as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Integral contours used in the proof. The shadowed area is the do￾main U in which λ E(κ),Pκ, Qκ are analytic. The red/blue curve refers to the integral contour C1/C2, respectively. for any g ∈ L ∞(R 2 ). This means that if we define the function uy,g(·) := G E,out(λ)(g1B(y,1/3)) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Profile of the auxiliary functions. The domain in red (or blue) refers the medium with coefficient function a + = a + δb (or a − = a − δb). (iii) supn≥1 ∥f + n ∥C1(Γ) < ∞, f ∈ {α, ψ, θ, β}. In other words, the supports of these functions move to infinity as n → ∞, and the transition areas of each function are separated by a distance greater than n; see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_9.png] view at source ↗

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