Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

Topological quantum matter in synthetic dimensions

T Ozawa, HM Price - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
In the field of quantum simulation of condensed matter phenomena by artificially
engineering the Hamiltonian of an atomic, molecular or optical system, the concept of …

Synthetic dimension in photonics

L Yuan, Q Lin, M Xiao, S Fan - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The physics of a photonic structure is commonly described in terms of its apparent geometric
dimensionality. On the other hand, with the concept of synthetic dimension, it is in fact …

On-chip nanophotonic topological rainbow

C Lu, YZ Sun, C Wang, H Zhang, W Zhao, X Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The era of Big Data requires nanophotonic chips to have large information
processing capacity. Multiple frequency on-chip nanophotonic devices are highly desirable …

Photonic topological insulator in synthetic dimensions

E Lustig, S Weimann, Y Plotnik, Y Lumer, MA Bandres… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological phases enable protected transport along the edges of materials, offering
immunity against scattering from disorder and imperfections. These phases have been …

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 …

Two-dimensional non-Hermitian skin effect in a synthetic photonic lattice

Y Song, W Liu, L Zheng, Y Zhang, B Wang, P Lu - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) has led to interesting physics and sophisticated
applications beyond the conventional framework. However, NHSE studies have been limited …

Giant atoms in a synthetic frequency dimension

L Du, Y Zhang, JH Wu, AF Kockum, Y Li - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Giant atoms that interact with real-space waveguides at multiple spatial points have attracted
extensive attention due to their unique interference effects. Here we propose a feasible …

Topological frequency conversion in strongly driven quantum systems

I Martin, G Refael, B Halperin - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
When a physical system is subjected to a strong external multifrequency drive, its dynamics
can be conveniently represented in the multidimensional Floquet lattice. The number of …

Phase-dependent chiral transport and effective non-Hermitian dynamics in a bosonic Kitaev-Majorana chain

A McDonald, T Pereg-Barnea, AA Clerk - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We study a 1D chain of noninteracting bosonic cavities which are subject to nearest-
neighbor parametric driving, thus realizing a bosonic Hamiltonian whose form is reminiscent …