Topological photonics

T Ozawa, HM Price, A Amo, N Goldman, M Hafezi… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and
topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing …

Quantum fluids of light

I Carusotto, C Ciuti - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental
understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In …

Observation of a dissipative phase transition in a one-dimensional circuit QED lattice

M Fitzpatrick, NM Sundaresan, ACY Li, J Koch… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Condensed matter physics has been driven forward by significant experimental and
theoretical progress in the study and understanding of equilibrium phase transitions based …

Chiral ground-state currents of interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field

P Roushan, C Neill, A Megrant, Y Chen, R Babbush… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
The intriguing many-body phases of quantum matter arise from the interplay of particle
interactions, spatial symmetries, and external fields. Generating these phases in an …

Topological magnon bands in a kagome lattice ferromagnet

R Chisnell, JS Helton, DE Freedman, DK Singh… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
There is great interest in finding materials possessing quasiparticles with topological
properties. Such materials may have novel excitations that exist on their boundaries which …

Topological photonics

L Lu, JD Joannopoulos, M Soljačić - Nature photonics, 2014 - nature.com
The application of topology, the mathematics of conserved properties under continuous
deformations, is creating a range of new opportunities throughout photonics. This field was …

Direct observation of Dirac cones and a flatband in a honeycomb lattice for polaritons

T Jacqmin, I Carusotto, I Sagnes, M Abbarchi… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Two-dimensional lattices of coupled micropillars etched in a planar semiconductor
microcavity offer a workbench to engineer the band structure of polaritons. We report …

Topological properties of linear circuit lattices

VV Albert, LI Glazman, L Jiang - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Motivated by the topologically insulating circuit of capacitors and inductors proposed and
tested by Jia et al.[arXiv: 1309.0878], we present a related circuit with fewer elements per …

Optical resonator analog of a two-dimensional topological insulator

GQ Liang, YD Chong - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
A lattice of optical ring resonators can exhibit a topological insulator phase, with the role of
spin played by the direction of propagation of light within each ring. Unlike the system …

Circuit QED lattices: Towards quantum simulation with superconducting circuits

S Schmidt, J Koch - Annalen der Physik, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Jaynes‐Cummings model describes the coupling between photons and a
single two‐level atom in a simplified representation of light‐matter interactions. In circuit …