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 …

Microcavity polaritons for topological photonics

DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech, P St-Jean… - Optical Materials …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Microcavity polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that arise from the strong coupling
between excitons and photons confined in a semiconductor microcavity. They are typically …

Observation of chiral zero mode in inhomogeneous three-dimensional Weyl metamaterials

H Jia, R Zhang, W Gao, Q Guo, B Yang, J Hu, Y Bi… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Owing to the chirality of Weyl nodes, the Weyl systems can support one-way chiral zero
modes under a strong magnetic field, which leads to nonconservation of chiral currents—the …

Photonics meets topology

BY Xie, HF Wang, XY Zhu, MH Lu, ZD Wang… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The topological phases in materials have been studied in recent decades for their unique
boundary states and transport properties. Photonic systems with band structures embrace …

Observation of Landau levels and chiral edge states in photonic crystals through pseudomagnetic fields induced by synthetic strain

R Barczyk, L Kuipers, E Verhagen - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Control over light propagation and localization in photonic crystals offers wide applications
ranging from sensing and on-chip routing to lasing and quantum light–matter interfaces …

[HTML][HTML] Exciton-polaritons in lattices: A non-linear photonic simulator

A Amo, J Bloch - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
Microcavity polaritons are mixed light–matter quasiparticles with extraordinary nonlinear
properties, which can be easily accessed in photoluminescence experiments. Thanks to the …

Direct observation of photonic Landau levels and helical edge states in strained honeycomb lattices

O Jamadi, E Rozas, G Salerno, M Milićević… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
We report the realization of a synthetic magnetic field for photons and polaritons in a
honeycomb lattice of coupled semiconductor micropillars. A strong synthetic field is induced …

Chiral quantum optics in the bulk of photonic quantum Hall systems

D De Bernardis, FS Piccioli, P Rabl, I Carusotto - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
We study light-matter interactions in the bulk of a two-dimensional photonic lattice system,
where photons are subject to the combined effect of a synthetic magnetic field and an …

Zero-energy edge states and solitons in strained photonic graphene

B Ren, H Wang, MR Belić, Y Li, X Zhu, Y Zhang - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Photonic graphene is a form of graphene in optic platforms that is important for fabrication of
photonic topological insulators, which may lead to novel techniques to realize various types …

Photonic Dirac waveguide in inhomogeneous spoof surface plasmonic metasurfaces

Y Yang, J Zhang, B Yang, S Liu, W Zhang, X Shen… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
The metamaterial with artificial synthetic gauge field has been proved as an excellent
platform to manipulate the transport of the electromagnetic wave. Here we propose an …