Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Using time-varying systems to challenge fundamental limitations in electromagnetics: Overview and summary of applications

Z Hayran, F Monticone - IEEE Antennas and Propagation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-varying systems open intriguing opportunities to explore novel approaches in the
design of efficient electromagnetic devices. While such explorations date back to more than …

Topologically protected quantum entanglement emitters

T Dai, Y Ao, J Bao, J Mao, Y Chi, Z Fu, Y You… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Entanglement and topology portray nature at the fundamental level but differently. Entangled
states of particles are intrinsically sensitive to the environment, whereas the topological …

Direct extraction of topological Zak phase with the synthetic dimension

G Li, L Wang, R Ye, Y Zheng, DW Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring topological invariants is an essential task in characterizing topological phases of
matter. They are usually obtained from the number of edge states due to the bulk-edge …

Moiré lattice in one-dimensional synthetic frequency dimension

D Yu, G Li, L Wang, D Leykam, L Yuan, X Chen - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The moiré lattice has recently attracted broad interest in both solid-state physics and
photonics where exotic phenomena in manipulating the quantum states are explored. In this …

Temporal multilayer structures in discrete physical systems towards arbitrary-dimensional non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm interferences

Z Dong, X Wu, Y Yang, P Yu, X Chen, L Yuan - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Temporal modulation recently draws great attentions in wave manipulations, with which one
can introduce the concept of temporal multilayer structure, a temporal counterpart of spatially …

Programmable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical synthetic frequency lattices

A Senanian, LG Wright, PF Wade, HK Doyle… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic simulators using synthetic frequency dimensions have enabled flexible
experimental analogues of condensed-matter systems. However, so far, such photonic …

A perspective on synthetic dimensions in photonics

M Ehrhardt, S Weidemann… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of synthetic dimension has recently emerged as a versatile way to overcome
limitations in the number of effectively available dimensions by leveraging non‐spatial …

Artificial non-Abelian lattice gauge fields for photons in the synthetic frequency dimension

D Cheng, K Wang, S Fan - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Non-Abelian gauge fields give rise to nontrivial topological physics. Here we develop a
scheme to create an arbitrary SU (2) lattice gauge field for photons in the synthetic frequency …

Bound state in a giant atom-modulated resonators system

H Xiao, L Wang, ZH Li, X Chen, L Yuan - npj Quantum Information, 2022 - nature.com
It is of fundamental interest in controlling the light–matter interaction for a long time in the
field of quantum information processing. Here, we explore a model by coupling a giant atom …