Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

Photonic quantum information processing: a review

F Flamini, N Spagnolo, F Sciarrino - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic quantum technologies represent a promising platform for several applications,
ranging from long-distance communications to the simulation of complex phenomena …

Localization and delocalization of light in photonic moiré lattices

P Wang, Y Zheng, X Chen, C Huang, YV Kartashov… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Moiré lattices consist of two superimposed identical periodic structures with a relative
rotation angle. Moiré lattices have several applications in everyday life, including artistic …

Probing entanglement in a many-body–localized system

A Lukin, M Rispoli, R Schittko, ME Tai, AM Kaufman… - Science, 2019 - science.org
An interacting quantum system that is subject to disorder may cease to thermalize owing to
localization of its constituents, thereby marking the breakdown of thermodynamics. The key …

Topological insulator vertical-cavity laser array

A Dikopoltsev, TH Harder, E Lustig, OA Egorov… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Topological insulator lasers are arrays of semiconductor lasers that exploit fundamental
features of topology to force all emitters to act as a single coherent laser. In this study, we …

Observation of interaction-induced mobility edge in an atomic Aubry-André wire

Y Wang, JH Zhang, Y Li, J Wu, W Liu, F Mei, Y Hu… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A mobility edge, a critical energy separating localized and extended excitations, is a key
concept for understanding quantum localization. The Aubry-André (AA) model, a paradigm …

Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems

LG Wright, FO Wu, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Linear multimode optical systems have enabled clean experimental observations and the
applications of numerous phenomena that continually extend the boundaries of wave …

Interplay of non-Hermitian skin effects and Anderson localization in nonreciprocal quasiperiodic lattices

H Jiang, LJ Lang, C Yang, SL Zhu, S Chen - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Non-Hermiticity from nonreciprocal hoppings has been shown recently to demonstrate the
non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) under open boundary conditions (OBCs). Here we study …

Exploring the many-body localization transition in two dimensions

J Choi, S Hild, J Zeiher, P Schauß, A Rubio-Abadal… - Science, 2016 - science.org
A fundamental assumption in statistical physics is that generic closed quantum many-body
systems thermalize under their own dynamics. Recently, the emergence of many-body …

Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control

S Rotter, S Gigan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The newly emerging field of wave front shaping in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …