Abstract:

We report on the occurrence and properties of photonic surface states in periodic structures of magnetized plasma nanospheres by means of rigorous calculations using the full-electrodynamic layer-multiple-scattering method, properly extended to treat gyrotropic spheres with arbitrarily oriented gyration vector. More specifically, dispersion diagrams of Tamm states at the (001) surface of a semi-infinite fcc crystal of plasma nanospheres and of guided modes of a square array of such spheres supported by a quartz substrate, without and under the action of an in-plane static uniform magnetic field, are analyzed and nonreciprocal optical response, which emerges as a result of the simultaneous lack of space-inversion and time-reversal symmetries, is demonstrated in the Voigt geometry.