It was then suggested (by Prof. Doug Stone) that we look into some sort of “topological protection” of these states—a rather exotic idea to us at that point—and it turned out to be very fruitful. Indeed, we found that BICs were fundamentally topological defects, which perfectly explains why they cannot radiate into the environment and why they always exist in such a robust manner
我们发现BIC本质上就是拓扑保护的缺陷,所以它不对外辐射且健壮存在