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 …

Engineering novel optical lattices

P Windpassinger, K Sengstock - Reports on progress in physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical lattices have developed into a widely used and highly recognized tool to study many-
body quantum physics with special relevance for solid state type systems. One of the most …

Numerical methods for nonlinear Dirac equation

J Xu, S Shao, H Tang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the current state-of-the-art of numerical methods for
nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation. Several methods are extendedly proposed for the (1+ 1) …

Optical analogue of relativistic Dirac solitons in binary waveguide arrays

TX Tran, S Longhi, F Biancalana - Annals of Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
We study analytically and numerically an optical analogue of Dirac solitons in binary
waveguide arrays in the presence of Kerr nonlinearity. Pseudo-relativistic soliton solutions of …

Relativistic quantum effects of Dirac particles simulated by ultracold atoms

D Zhang, Z Wang, S Zhu - Frontiers of physics, 2012 - Springer
Quantum simulation is a powerful tool to study a variety of problems in physics, ranging from
high-energy physics to condensed-matter physics. In this article, we review the recent …

Stability of solitary waves and vortices in a 2D nonlinear Dirac model

J Cuevas–Maraver, PG Kevrekidis, A Saxena… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We explore a prototypical two-dimensional massive model of the nonlinear Dirac type and
examine its solitary wave and vortex solutions. In addition to identifying the stationary states …

Dynamics of Dirac solitons in networks

KK Sabirov, DB Babajanov… - Journal of Physics A …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study dynamics of Dirac solitons in prototypical networks modeling them by the
nonlinear Dirac equation on metric graphs. Stationary soliton solutions of the nonlinear …

Stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation with arbitrary nonlinearity

S Shao, NR Quintero, FG Mertens, F Cooper, A Khare… - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
We consider the nonlinear Dirac equation in 1+ 1 dimension with scalar-scalar self
interaction g 2 κ+ 1 (Ψ¯ Ψ) κ+ 1 and with mass m. Using the exact analytic form for rest frame …

Honeycomb supersolid--Dirac points and shear-instability induced crystal transitions

PB Blakie - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15754, 2024 - arxiv.org
The honeycomb supersolid state is predicted to form in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
with a planar confining potential. Our results for its excitation spectrum reveal the gapless …

Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Honeycomb Optical Lattice:<? format?> Fingerprint of Superfluidity at the Dirac Point

Z Chen, B Wu - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
Mean-field Bloch bands of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a honeycomb optical lattice are
computed. We find that the topological structure of the Bloch bands at the Dirac point is …