Topological phononic metamaterials

W Zhu, W Deng, Y Liu, J Lu, HX Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Massive quantum systems as interfaces of quantum mechanics and gravity

S Bose, I Fuentes, AA Geraci, SM Khan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The traditional view from particle physics is that quantum gravity effects should only become
detectable at extremely high energies and small length scales. Due to the significant …

Non-Hermitian dynamics and non-reciprocity of optically coupled nanoparticles

M Reisenbauer, H Rudolph, L Egyed, K Hornberger… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Non-Hermitian dynamics, as observed in photonic, atomic, electrical and optomechanical
platforms, holds great potential for sensing applications and signal processing. Recently …

Topological zero modes and edge symmetries of metastable Markovian bosonic systems

VP Flynn, E Cobanera, L Viola - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Tight bosonic analogs of free-fermionic symmetry-protected topological phases, and their
associated edge-localized excitations, have long evaded the grasp of condensed-matter …

Quadrature nonreciprocity in bosonic networks without breaking time-reversal symmetry

CC Wanjura, JJ Slim, J del Pino, M Brunelli… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Nonreciprocity means that the transmission of a signal depends on its direction of
propagation. Despite vastly different platforms and underlying working principles, the …

Instabilities near ultrastrong coupling in a microwave optomechanical cavity

SR Das, S Majumder, SK Sahu, U Singhal, T Bera… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
With artificially engineered systems, it is now possible to realize the coherent interaction
rate, which can become comparable to the mode frequencies, a regime known as …

Topological phase transitions at finite temperature

P Molignini, NR Cooper - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
The ground states of noninteracting fermions in one-dimension with chiral symmetry form a
class of topological band insulators, described by a topological invariant that can be related …

Thermal-noise cancellation for optomechanically induced nonreciprocity in a whispering-gallery-mode microresonator

ZX Tang, XW Xu - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Magnetic-free optomechanically induced nonreciprocity may stimulate a wide range of
practical applications in quantum technologies. However, how to suppress the thermal-noise …

Dissipative pairing interactions: Quantum instabilities, topological light, and volume-law entanglement

A Pocklington, YX Wang, AA Clerk - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We analyze an unusual class of bosonic dynamical instabilities that arise from dissipative (or
non-Hermitian) pairing interactions. We show that, surprisingly, a completely stable …

Quantum collective motion of macroscopic mechanical oscillators

M Chegnizadeh, M Scigliuzzo, A Youssefi, S Kono… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Collective phenomena arise from interactions within complex systems, leading to behaviors
absent in individual components. Observing quantum collective phenomena with …